Aston Villa Football Club, commonly referred to as Villa, is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded in 1874, competes in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system. The team have played at their home ground Villa Park since 1897. Aston Villa is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in England, having won the Football League First Division seven times, the FA Cup seven times, the League Cup five times, and the European Cup and European Super Cup once.
William Eric Houghton was an English footballer and manager.
George Burrell Ramsay was a Scottish footballer and manager.
William Henry Walker was a prominent English footballer of the 1920s and 1930s. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest footballers to ever play for Aston Villa and England. As a manager he won the FA Cup with each of Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest, some 24 years apart, a record which still stands.
Peter James McParland MBE is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as an outside left.
David John Astley was a Welsh international footballer who played as an inside forward in The Football League in the 1920s and 1930s.
The 1920 FA Cup final, the first since the end of the First World War, was contested by Aston Villa and Huddersfield at Stamford Bridge. Aston Villa won 1–0, with the goal coming in extra time from Billy Kirton, to clinch the trophy for a record sixth time. This was the first ever FA Cup Final to require extra time to be played.
Dean Smith is an English professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Major League Soccer club Charlotte FC.
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 in Lozells. Four of the founders were Jack Hughes, Frederick Matthews, Walter Price and William Scattergood. The club won its first FA Cup in 1887. Aston Villa were one of the dozen teams that competed in the inaugural Football League in 1888 with the club's outgoing chairman William McGregor being the league's founder. Aston Villa emerged as the most successful English club of the Victorian era. By the end of Villa's "Golden Age" at the start of the First World War, the club had won the League Championship six times and the FA Cup five times.
The history of Aston Villa Football Club from 1961 to the current season covers the fluctuating fortunes of the club during the 1960s and 1970s, the European Cup victory in 1982 and the present day Premier League club.
William Charles Goffin was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Aston Villa and Walsall. He was often referred to by his nickname "Cowboy".
Cyril Henry Spiers was an English football goalkeeper who played for Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He later went on to manage at Football League clubs for more than twenty years.
The 2018–19 EFL Championship season was Aston Villa's 144th season in English football. It was the club's third consecutive season in the Championship following relegation from the Premier League in the 2015–16 season. Villa finished in fifth place and were the winners of the subsequent play-offs to achieve promotion to the Premier League.
The 1894–95 Football League season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era. Under George Ramsay's management committee Villa won the FA Cup for the second time. The 1894–95 Division 1 season was the first season of the First league Second City Derby with Aston Villa beating local rivals Small Heath 2–1 on 1 September 1894.
Aston Villa played the 1933–34 English football season in the Football League First Division. Billy Smith remained trophy-less going into his eighth season. Jimmy McMullan was appointed as manager when Billy Smith retired in May 1934.
Aston Villa played the 1934–35 English football season in the Football League First Division. This was manager Jimmy McMullan's first season having been appointed as manager when Billy Smith retired at the end of the previous season.
The 1926–27 Football League season in English football was Aston Villa's 35th season in The Football League. There were debuts for Billy Kingdon (223), Jimmy Gibson (215), Bill Johnson, Billy Cook (57), and Joe Nicholson (1).
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