Teenage starlet Fletcher Boyd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 joins Villa from Aberdeen on a free transfer.

Rachel Daly, Villa's leading WSL goalscorer with 38 goals, has been appointed captain following the departure of Rachel Corsie at the end of the 2024-25 season.

Villa u21 right back Triston Rowe follows Mungo Bridge in moving on loan to French Ligue 2 side FC Annecy.

Thierry Katsukunya follows in the footsteps of Tommi O'Reilly, Josh Feeney, James Wright, Finley Munroe and Yeimar Mosquera in joining Spanish Segunda Federación side Real Unión on loan.

Jadon Sancho joins Villa on loan for the 2025-26 season.

Zépiqueno Redmond joins Championship side Huddersfield Town on loan two months after signing for Villa from Feyenoord 🇳🇱 on a free transfer.

Fresh from his sole unused substitute appearance against Newcastle on the opening day of the season, Samuel Iling-Junior departs on loan once again.

Villa sign Harvey Elliott on a loan-to-buy deal

Villa have signed Victor Lindelöf 🇸🇪 as an unattached player.

Since 2019-20 Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal have spent an average of €1.4bn on players. Over the same period, the remainder of the participants in the Premier League have averaged a total outlay of €537m. One club, Chelsea, has a spend in excess of €2bn, four other clubs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have a spend in excess of €1bn. One rule for them you say... hold my beer say the Premier League.

Lewis Dobbin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes a goalscoring debut for Preston North End 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in their EFL Cup defeat at home to Wrexham before making his Championship debut as a 67th minute substitute in the 0-1 defeat to Portsmouth. 🕒 2 | ✅ 1 | 🔁 1 | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 1 |

🟥 30 Aug 2025 Chelsea 6-1 Villa

Villa' u18s make it successive away wins following up their opening day u18 Premier League victory with a win in the u18 Premier League Cup thanks to two quick-fire first-half goals from Markie Meade and Woody Burgess as new boss Richard Beale makes a strong start to the season.

Sil Swinkels 🇳🇱 makes it four successive starts for Exeter but suffers a serious injury on 42 minutes and looks likely to be on the sidelines for an extended period. 🕒 4 | ✅ 4 | 🔁 0 | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 1 |

Villa u21 attacking midfielder Ewan Simpson has joined Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical on loan for the 2025-26 season.

Aston Villa Women have signed Maya Hijikata

In August 2025, the Premier League fined Villa £125,000 for breaching multiball rules in five matches in 2024-25. Villa are also prohibited from operating the multiball system in its first three home league matches of 2025-26. The Premier League accuse Aston Villa’s ball boys of acting “deliberately and under instruction... with no other reason than to attempt to affect passages of play for the benefit of the Club.”

Lewis Dobbin August 2025: Aged 22, Loaned to Championship side Preston North End 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 for the 2025-26 season.

Álex Moreno has left Villa after spending the 2024-25 season on loan at Nottingham Forest.

A curious player, a curious fellow, more out of form than in across his four seasons with Villa, Bailey always had the capacity but rarely the application to be a game-changer.