Aston Villa tickets

Aston Villa Football Club was founded in 1874 and is one of the oldest clubs in English football. It played a formative part in the professional game and was one of the twelve founding members of the Football League in 1888.

Villa have won the top division seven times and the FA Cup seven times, with five League Cups alongside them. Most of that league success came in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the Double in 1897 — the year the club moved into Villa Park.

The defining night of the modern era came on 26 May 1982 in Rotterdam, when Villa beat Bayern Munich 1–0 to win the European Cup. The side had been built by Ron Saunders, who took the league title in 1980/81 and left halfway through the following season; Tony Barton took charge for the European run and the final itself. Paul McGrath and Gordon Cowans are still named among the most influential players in the club's history.

Villa Park has been the home ground since 1897, built on the site of the old Aston Lower Grounds in the Aston district of Birmingham. It is the most used stadium in FA Cup semi-final history, having hosted 55 of them.

The ground is currently mid-redevelopment. The North Stand is closed until 2027/28, when capacity rises above 50,000, so seating runs across the Holte End behind one goal and the Trinity Road and Doug Ellis stands along the sidelines. Lower tiers place you closer to the pitch, while upper tiers give a wider view of the field and the stands around it.