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| Full name | Aston Villa Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | The Villans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1874 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Villa Park, Birmingham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 43,300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Doug Ellis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | David O'Leary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | FA Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003-04 | Premier League, 6th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aston Villa is football club that play in Birmingham, England. They currently play in the Premier League. Aston Villa is the oldest football club in the Premiership.
Aston Villa Football Club was formed in March 1874 by members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Aston, Birmingham. Members of the Aston Villa cricket team were looking for a way to stay fit during the winter months and decided to adopt the new sport of football. Little did they know that the team they formed would go on to become the most famous and admired football club in the world by the end of Queen Victoria's reign.
The club won its first FA Cup in 1887, by which time football had become professional. However, a Scottish draper and director of Aston Villa, William McGregor wanted his club to compete in a league much like AmericanThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in baseballBusch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri. Baseball is a team sport in which a small hand-sized ball is thrown and hit with a bat. Scoring involves running and touching markers on the ground called bases, hence the name. The ball itself is also called a base teams did. So he wrote to the 12 leading clubs in England proposing the formation of a league. The reason the Football League was never called the English League is because McGregor intended Scottish and Welsh teams to join eventually. Naturally, Aston Villa were one of the dozen teams that competed in the inaugural Football League in 1888 finishing runners-up. By 1920 Villa had won the League Championship and FA Cup six times each. However the club did not win another major trophy until 1957, when it again won the FA Cup. In more recent times, Aston Villa have won the League Cup twice in the 1990s ( 1994 and 1996) and as well as runners-up in the old First Division/new Premier League ( 1989- 1990 and 1992- 1993 seasons).
The club colours are Claret top with Sky blue sleeves, White shorts with claret and blue trim, Sky blue socks with claret and white trim. They were the original wearers of these famous colours and due mainly to their success in the early years of the football league, other teams, most notably West Ham and Burnley, adopted the same club colours.
Aston Villa's current home venue is Villa Park having previously played at Aston Park ( 1873- 1876) and Perry Barr (1876-1897). They have a training ground at Bodymoor Heath in north Warwickshire.
Aston Villa is one of four English teams that have won the European Champions Cup. They did so in 1982 on 26th of May in Rotterdam, beating Bayern Munich 1-0 thanks to Peter Withe's 67th minute goal.