Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Aston Villa Football Club Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 03375789 · Arts & entertainment · 15 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Dec 2024

43days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 31 Dec 2024 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 20 May 1997
Registered office: VILLA PARK TRINITY ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B6 6HE

3 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Mar 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30–61 days. Reported average: 43.

Stated terms30–61d

+13 days

Reported avg43d

At a glance

The key figures

30–61d

their stated terms

37%

invoices paid outside terms

+6d

slower over the window

±3d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 88% of the 74 large companies reporting in arts & entertainment.

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d

H1 2022H2 2022H1 2023H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 42% 31–60 days 42% 61+ days 16%

The read · computed from their figures

Aston Villa Football Club Limited has filed 15 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2017). Their latest report puts the average at 43 days against stated terms of 30–61 days.

The direction is slower: from 37 to 43 days over the window — about 6 days slower.

In the latest period 37% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 16% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard payment terms are 30 days following the end of the month in which the invoice is received or dated.

Dispute resolution

Payment disputes are handled by the Accounts Payable team, with support from the invoice contact within the company. In the event that a satisfactory outcome can not be reached, the issue will be escalated within the organisation until the dispute is resolved.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2024	43	37%	16%	17 Mar 2025
H1 2024	41	30%	15%	30 Aug 2024
H2 2023	46	37%	12%	6 Dec 2024
H1 2023	42	33%	12%	29 Dec 2024
H2 2022	37	31%	10%	29 Dec 2024
H1 2022	37	28%	11%	29 Dec 2024
H2 2021	36	31%	9%	28 Dec 2024
H1 2021	36	23%	13%	28 Dec 2024
H2 2020	33	26%	8%	28 Dec 2024
H1 2020	29	17%	8%	28 Dec 2024
H2 2019	33	19%	8%	22 Apr 2020
H1 2019	39	26%	10%	9 Dec 2019
H2 2018	37	24%	11%	15 Jan 2019
H1 2018	33	22%	9%	27 Jul 2018
H2 2017	36	25%	7%	14 Feb 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 43-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 43-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £17,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 43-day cycle — about £5,100 more than the same account would carry at 30-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 6 days slower over the window (37 → 43 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 43, moving within about ±3 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?

UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.

What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.

How often is this data updated?

Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.

Is this official government data?

The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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