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 club's greatest night 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 from the quarter-finals through to the final, where Peter Withe scored the only goal.

In May 2026, under Unai Emery, Villa beat Freiburg 3–0 in Istanbul to win the Europa League, the club's first European trophy since the European Cup and the Super Cup of 1982, and its route back into the Champions League for 2026/27.

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 for the 2026/27 season, which brings capacity down to about 37,000, and reopens for 2027/28 with capacity above 50,000, so the seats are in the Holte End behind one goal and in the Trinity Road and Doug Ellis stands along the sides of the pitch. The lower tiers put you closer to the pitch, while the upper tiers give a wider view of the pitch and the stands around it.