Question: Daniel John Ferguson Paton, was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for which professional football club in Aston, Birmingham, that plays in the Championship, the second level of English football?

Context articles: Aston Villa F.C.
List of Sunderland A.F.C. seasons
Colchester United F.C. league record by opponent
Daniel Paton
2015–16 Birmingham City F.C. season
List of Aston Villa F.C. records and statistics
Matthew Ferguson (footballer)
2014–15 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season
2012–13 Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. season
East Stirlingshire F.C. league record by opponent

Aston Villa Football Club ( ; nicknamed Villa, The Villa, The Villans and The Lions) is a professional football club in Aston, Birmingham, that plays in the Championship, the second level of English football.
 Founded in 1874, they have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897.
 Aston Villa were one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888 and of the Premier League in 1992.
Sunderland Association Football Club was founded in 1879 as Sunderland & District Teachers Association Football Club by James Allan.
 They turned professional in 1885.
 Sunderland won their first Football League championship in the 1891–92 season two years after joining the league.
 They won the next Football League First Division on three occasions in four seasons; in 1892, 1893 and 1895, separated by a runner-up spot in 1894.
 In the 1901–02 season, Sunderland won their fifth Football League First Division championship.
 They came close to completing the "league and cup double" in the 1912–13 season, winning the league but losing to Aston Villa in the 1913 FA Cup Final.
 The team's next success came in the 1935–36 season when they won the League Championship and also the Charity Shield.
 They had not won the FA Cup until the 1936–37 season when they defeated Preston North End in the 1937 FA Cup Final.
 Sunderland entered The Football League in 1890 and were not relegated from the top division until the 1957–58 season; a total of 58 seasons in the highest division of England.
 Their next trophy came in the 1973 FA Cup Final as they beat Leeds United 1–0.
 They reached the 1985 Football League Cup Final but finished as runners-up to Norwich City after being beaten 1–0.
 In the 1986–87 season Sunderland were relegated to the Football League Third Division for the first time in their history under the management of Lawrie McMenemy, they however, returned to the second division the following season as champions–their lowest position in the English football league system.
 Their first appearance in the Premier League came in the 1999–2000 season after being promoted as champions from Division One.
 In winning promotion the club gained 105 points, which was a record at the time.
 Sunderland gained just 15 points in the 2005-06 season, which set the record for the lowest number of points in a Premier League season, which has since been eclipsed by Derby County.
Colchester United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Colchester, Essex, that was founded in 1937.
 From the 1937–38 season, the club played in the Southern Football League until 1950, when they were elected to the Football League.
 After playing in the Third Division South for eight seasons, Colchester remained in the Third Division when the league was re-organised by finishing 12th in 1958.
 The club were relegated to the Fourth Division in 1961, but made an immediate return to the Third Division after finishing the 1961–62 season in second position, one point behind Millwall.
 They bounced between the Third and Fourth divisions until 1990, when the club were relegated from the Football League for the first time in 40 years.
 After two seasons in the Football Conference, the U's were promoted back to the Football League after winning the Conference title on goal difference over Wycombe Wanderers in 1992.
 Colchester played in the Third Division between 1992 and 1998, when they won promotion to the Second Division after a play-off final win against Torquay United at Wembley.
 The club remained in the third tier until 2006, as they were promoted to the Championship, the second tier of English football, for the first time in their history, ending the season as runners up in League One to Southend United.
 The U's spent two seasons in the Championship, earning their highest-ever league finish of 10th position in the second tier before being relegated back to League One in 2008.
 Following relegation to League Two at the end of the 2015–16 season, Colchester made a return to the fourth tier of English football for the first time in 18-years.
Daniel John Ferguson Paton (1871 – "unknown") was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Aston Villa.
The 2015–16 season was Birmingham City Football Club' s 113th season in the English football league system and fifth consecutive season in the Football League Championship.
 It covered the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016.
 Their Championship record, of 63 points accrued via 16 wins, 15 draws and 15 losses resulting in a tenth-place finish, was exactly the same as in 2014–15.
 Tenth was the lowest position the team had occupied all season.
 The average attendance at league matches, of 17,602, was some 9% higher than in 2014–15.
 As with all clubs in the top two tiers of English football, Birmingham entered the 2015–16 FA Cup in the third round; they lost in that round at home to Premier League club AFC Bournemouth.
 In the League Cup, they progressed through two rounds before being eliminated by Aston Villa, also of the Premier League, in the third.
Aston Villa Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Aston, Birmingham, who currently play in the EFL Championship.
 The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897.
 Aston Villa were founding members of the Football League in 1888 and the Premier League in 1992.
 They are one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in England, having won the First Division Championship seven times and the FA Cup seven times.
 In 1982 the club became one of only five English clubs to win the European Cup.
Matthew Ferguson (c. 1873 in Bellshill, Scotland – 1902) was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland as a central defender.
 He made his debut for Sunderland against Bury on 1 September 1896 in a 1–0 defeat at Newcastle Road.
 In 1902, Ferguson won an English Football League Championship with Sunderland though, the same year, he died and ultimately missed out on international caps for his country, Scotland.
 Through his time at Sunderland, spanning from 1896 to 1902 he made 167 league appearances, scoring 5 goals.
 Ferguson died in the close season of 1902, aged 26, just weeks after Sunderland clinched the 1901-02 League championship.
 His career highpoint was the league title win, but he was perhaps best remembered for keeping goal in a friendly against Tottenham on January 2, 1900 - after Sunderland goalkeeper Ted Doig injured his wrist the day before.
 A large attendance at his funeral proved his popularity.
The 2014–15 season was the 116th season of competitive league football in the history of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
 The club competed in the second tier of the English football system, the Football League Championship, following their return to the second level after being promoted as champions from League One at the first attempt.
The 2012–13 season was the 114th season of competitive league football in the history of English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers.
 The club competed in the second tier of the English football system, the Football League Championship.
 They had returned to the second level having been relegated from the Premier League after three seasons during the previous season.
East Stirlingshire Football Club is a Scottish association football club from Falkirk.
 The club was formed in 1881, with its origins traced to the previous year when a local cricket club from Bainsford formed a footballing section under the name Britannia.
 After spending their first ten seasons solely participating in cup tournaments and friendlies, East Stirlingshire competed in regional leagues between 1891 and 1899, including the Central Football Combination and the Midland Football League.
 In 1900, the club was elected to the second-tier of Scotland's main national league competition – the Scottish Football League.
 The club remained in the Scottish Football League Division Two until 1914–15, when the league was suspended due to the outbreak of World War I.
 The league was restarted in 1921–22 and after a solitary season in the third-tier in 1923–24, East Stirlingshire remained in the second-tier until 1932–33 when the club was promoted to the top-tier for the first time but were relegated after one season.
 Between 1939 and 1955, the club spent only three seasons in the Scottish Football League after being refused entry to its second-tier after the end of World War II and did not join again until the 1955–56 when the number of teams in the league was expanded.
 The club remained in the Scottish Football League until the 2012–13 season, when it merged with the Scottish Premier League to create a new governing body called the Scottish Professional Football League.