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The 1982 European Cup winning squad celebrate the 25th anniversary of their win. The Aston Villa team of 1896–97 with the First Division Championship and the FA Cup. Aston Villa have won honours both domestically and in European cup competitions. Their most recent domestic honour was a League Cup win in 1996. [4] [5]
The club first played in Europe in the UEFA Cup in the 1975–76 season, losing in the first round to Royal Antwerp, with their first match being a 4–1 loss on the 17th of September, 1975. Aston Villa are one of the 6 clubs from England to have won the European Cup , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] winning in 1982, beating Bayern Munich in the final, after ...
The 1982 European Cup final was played on 26 May 1982 at the end of the 1981–82 European Cup season. Football League First Division winners Aston Villa defeated Bundesliga winners Bayern Munich 1–0 at De Kuip in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to win their first (and to date only) European Cup; this continued the streak of English teams winning the competition in six straight seasons.
Aston Villa are one of the oldest and most successful clubs in England, having won the Football League First Division seven times, the FA Cup seven times, the League Cup five times, and the European Cup and European Super Cup once. Aston Villa has been a leading English club since the 1880s, when they were pioneers of the modern passing game.
Aston Villa (in 9 matches in 1981–82) and Milan (in 12 matches in 1993–94) hold the record for the fewest goals conceded by European Cup-winning team, conceding only two goals. In addition, Milan achieved the lowest-ever goals conceded-per-game ratio for Champions League-winning in the history of the competition (0.16).
The Aston Villa team of 1897 that won The Double. This is a list of seasons played by Aston Villa Football Club in English and European football, from 1879 (the year of the club's first FA Cup entry) to the most recent completed season. Aston Villa football club was founded in March, 1874, by members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Aston. Throughout the 1870s Aston Villa played a small ...
The 1981–82 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the only time by Aston Villa in the final against Bayern Munich.It was the sixth consecutive year that an English club won the competition.
The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955. [1] Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. [1] The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has no league competition), as well as to the clubs finishing from ...