Bob Chatt
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Robert Chatt | ||
| Date of birth | August 1870 | ||
| Place of birth | Barnard Castle, England | ||
| Date of death | c.1955 | ||
| Playing position | Wing half / Inside forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Cleator Moor | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Middlesbrough Ironopolis | |||
| 1893–1898 | Aston Villa | 86 | (19) |
| – | |||
| – | South Shields | ||
| – | Willington Athletic | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Robert Chatt (August 1870 – c.1955) was an English footballer who was a member of the Aston Villa team which won the Football League championship three times in the 1890s. Chatt was credited with scoring the fastest goal in FA Cup Final history, scored after just 30 seconds in the 1895 FA Cup Final. This record stood for 114 years until Louis Saha of Everton scored after 25 seconds against Chelsea in the 2009 final.
Chatt later won the FA Amateur Cup with and is the only player to have winner's medals for both the FA Cup and the FA Amateur Cup.
Chatt was born in Barnard Castle and played football for Cleator Moor and Middlesbrough Ironopolis before joining Aston Villa in August 1893.
In his first season with Aston Villa, he made seventeen appearances generally playing at left half, from where he scored five goals in league matches and four in the FA Cup. His goals included six scored in a run of two goals per match in three consecutive matches in March. At the end of the season, Villa claimed their first Football League title by a margin of six points over Sunderland, having scored 84 goals in 30 games, with only five defeats.
Chatt became a regular member of the side in the 1894-95 season, when he was pushed forward to play as an inside forward. Chatt only missed three league games, scoring ten league goals, as Aston Villa finished the season in third place, eight points behind the champions, Sunderland.
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