Aston Villa Football Club is an English professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Villa are currently owned by the NSWE group, a companyowned by the Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris and the American billionaire Wes Edens. The club’s traditional kit colours are claret shirts with sky blue sleeves, white shorts and sky blue socks. Their traditional club badge is of a rampant lion. They are one of only five English clubs to have won the European Cup, in 1981–82.
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Aston Villa Football Club is an English professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888 and of the Premier League in 1992. They are one of only five English clubs to have won the European Cup, in 1981–82. Villa have a fierce local rivalry with Birmingham City and the Second City derby between the teams has been played since 1879. The club’s traditional kit colours are claret shirts with sky blue sleeves, white shorts and sky blue socks. Their traditional club badge is of a rampant lion. Villa are currently owned by the NSWE group, a companyowned by the Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris and the American billionaire Wes Edens. Villa won their sixth FA Cup in 1920, soon after though the club began a slow decline that led to Villa being relegated in 1936 for the first time to the Second Division. The team struggled in the league though and were relegated two seasons later, due in large part to complacency. However, under the stewardship of manager Joe Mercer Villa returned to the top-flight in 1960 as Second Division Champions. The following season Aston Villa became the first team to win the FA League Cup. Villa’s first trophy for 37 years came in the 1956–57 season when another former Villa player, Eric Houghton led the club to a then record seventh FA Cup Final win, defeating the ‘Busby Babes’ of Manchester United in the final. In 1974, Ron Saunders was appointed manager and the club won the League Cup with a record 70 points.
In the 1971–72 season they returned to Second Division as Champions with a 70 points record with a winning record of 4-0 at the end of the season. Villa were relegated for the third time, under manager Dick Taylor in 1967. After much pressure from fans, control of the club was bought by London financier Pat Matthews, who also brought in Doug Ellis as chairman. The board resigned under overwhelming mounting pressure and within weeks the entire board was bought out by the London-based company NSWE. Villa finished 16th in Division Two, the bottom of Division Two and under overwhelming pressure from the fans, the board sacked Tommy Cummings, who had led Villa to the Third Division title in the previous season. They have also won the FA Cup seven times, the League League Cup five times, and the European Super Cup once. Villa emerged as the most successful English club of the Victorian era, winning no fewer than five League titles and three FA Cups by theend of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1901. They also won The Double in 1897, the year Villa won The double, they moved into their present home, the Aston Lower Grounds. Villa lost seven seasons to the second World War, and that conflict brought several careers to a premature end. The team was rebuilt under the guidance of former player Alex Massie for the remainder of the 1940s. The most successful club in England was struggling to keep pace with changes in the modern game.
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