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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.
Aston Villa's current home venue is Villa Park; the team previously played at Aston Park (1874–1876) and Wellington Road (1876–1897). Villa Park is the largest football stadium in the English Midlands, and the eighth largest stadium in England.
Bodymoor Heath Training Ground is Aston Villa Football Club's training ground, located at Bodymoor Heath in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England.The site was purchased from a farmer by then Aston Villa Chairman Doug Ellis in the early 1970s.
However, with an uneven pitch and growing crowds, it became increasingly apparent that a new ground was required. Villa moved to Villa Park towards the end of the 1896–97 season, with the last league match played at Wellington Road on 22 March 1897. Villa beat Bolton Wanderers 6–2, with a crowd of 8,000 in attendance. [1]
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.
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 ...
Stadium: Villa Park; Capacity: 42,657 [7] Current stadium status: Reconstructed. 7,400 North Stand expansion plan. Aston Villa have planning permission to increase Villa Park from 42,000 to 50,000 seats by expanding the North Stand.
In the 2017–18 season Villa lost the 2018 EFL Championship play-off final at Wembley Stadium. In July 2018 Aston Villa were sold by Xia to Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens. They sacked Bruce and appointed Dean Smith, who led the team back to the Premier League with victory in the 2019 EFL Championship play-off final.