8 Facts about Aston Villa

Friday, April 10th 2015. | Sports

Facts about Aston Villa tell you about the famous football club in the world. People often call Aston Villa Football club as the Villa, Villa, The Lions or even the Villans. The base of this football club is in Witton, Birmingham. Now Aston Villa is one of the clubs playing in the highest level of English Football, Premier League. Here are other facts about Aston Villa for you:

Facts about Aston Villa 1: the establishment

Aston Villa was established in 1874. Since 1897, the home ground of Aston Villa is located at Villa Park. Do you know that it was one of the founding members of The Football League in 1888? In 1992, it also became the founding member of Premier League.

Facts about Aston Villa 2: Doug Ellis

Doug Ellis was the owner of Aston Villa. He became the chairman of the club. However, since 2006, Randy Lerner, the American businessman is the owner of this club. On May 12th, 2014, Lerner stated that he is selling Aston Villa.

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Facts about Aston Villa 3: the record

Based on the history of the English football club, we can say that Aston Villa is one of the most successful clubs. It was the winner of European Cup in 1981 -1982. Now this cup is called UEFA Champions League. The club also won the FA Cup seven times and won the first division Championship seven times. In 1982, Aston Villa won the UEFA Super Cup and won the Football League Cup five times.

Facts about Aston Villa 4: the national team players

Aston Villa also took the record as the club with 73 England national team players. The main rival of Aston Villa is Birmingham city.

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Facts about Aston Villa 5: the color of Aston Villa

The players of Aston Villa wear white shorts, sky blue socks and claret shirt decorated with sky blue shelves. You can see a rampant gold lion located on the blue based color for the traditional badge of Aston Villa. Get Arsenal FC facts here.

Facts about Aston Villa 6: the founders of Aston Villa

There were four founder of Aston Villa. Those are Walter Price, Frederick Matthews, William Scattergood and Jack Hughes. It was formed by the Villa Cross Wesleyn Chapel in March 1874.

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Facts about Aston Villa 7: the first match

The first match of Aston Villa was with the rugby team of Aston Brook St Mary. The match was very unique. Aston Villa had to follow the rugby rules during the first half of the game. Then they would play using the football rules for the second half of the game. Find out a footbaler in Ashley Cole facts.

Facts about Aston Villa 8: the famous footballers

There are several footballers who support Aston Villa such as Gareth Barry, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Daniel Sturridge, James Vaughan, Nick Powell and Stan Collymore.