European Cup Winners 7 times Champions 7 times F.A. Cup Winners 5 times League Cup Winners
1982 1894,1896,1897,1899,1900,1910,1981 1887,1895,1897,1905,1913,1920,1957 1961,1975,1977,1994,1996
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Oyez! Oyez!Welcome to my Villa History Pages! "There is no other soccer club that is both so old and so rich in history as Aston Villa. It was mainly Aston Villa, through its founding fathers, their inspiration and the club’s successes, that gave the impetus to make professional football what it is in the world to-day...".
When the club was founded, in 1874, it was as an off-shoot of the nearby Aston Villa Wesleyan Church, which was built in 1850. The area in which it was built was called 'Aston Villa', owing to the predominance of a house of that name that was built in Georgian times, a 'villa' being a type of house. The house gave its name to the area.
It stands on what was once called 'Aston Lower Grounds' -
the left-side of which was called "the magnificent meadow",
where the Villa played a number of matches from the 1870s
before Villa Park was opened in 1897. In the bottom
right is a section of Aston Park, the exact location of where Villa played some of
their first matches from 1874. This Park forms the grounds of the 17th c. Aston Hall (above, left).
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Birmingham-based Aston Villa are the Midlands'
only consistently achieving club, but, more than that, they were the main standard by which football as we know it stabilised and grew. In 1913, The Evening News said: "Aston Villa is the biggest news on the football canvas. It is, in fact, a household word - one of the few the game has produced. At the start of the League - Aston Villa. After 25 seasons - [still] Aston Villa."
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