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Aston Villa's first shirt sponsor was Davenports Breweries in the 1982–83 season. [86] Aston Villa forwent commercial kit sponsorship for the 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons; instead advertising the charity Acorns Children's Hospice, the first deal of its kind in Premier League history. [97]
In December 2023, Castore delivered a new Aston Villa kit which they hoped would resolve the issues, however it was reported that the club still wanted to sever its multi-year contract with the brand. [55] Ultimately, in January 2024, it was revealed that Aston Villa had severed their contract with Castore and opted to move instead to Adidas. [56]
A 3–0 win against Newcastle United on 15 April 2023 saw Villa win five Premier League games in a row for the first time since 1998, [104] and victory at Villa Park against Brighton on the final matchday not only meant The Villans’ first time winning seven consecutive league games at home since the 1992-93 season, [105] but also their ...
The 1981–82 English football season was Aston Villa's 82nd season in the Football League. In May 1982, just three months after being appointed manager, Tony Barton guided Villa to a 1–0 victory over Bayern Munich in the European Cup final in Rotterdam.
Aston Villa Football Club were formed in 1874, by fifteen members [Report by the Sports Argus on a talk by co-founder Jack Hughes, 1899] of the Wesleyan Chapel at Villa Cross (known as early as 1867 as Aston Villa Wesleyan Chapel) [1] [2] in Lozells. Four of the founders were Jack Hughes, Frederick Matthews, Walter Price and William Scattergood.
During the 1990–91 English football season, Aston Villa competed in the Football League First Division.. A season after finishing as runners-up, Villa dropped to 17th in the table following the departure of manager Graham Taylor, who took charge of the England national football team.
Villa Park is a football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 42,785. [4] It has been the home of Premier League club Aston Villa since 1897. The ground is less than a mile from both Witton and Aston railway stations and has hosted sixteen England internationals at senior level, the first in 1899 and the most recent in 2005.