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Villa Park is a football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 42,657.
It has been the home of Premier League club Aston Villa since 1897.
Villa Park has hosted 55 FA Cup semi-finals, more than any other stadium, and it is the 10th largest in England.
In 1897, Aston Villa moved into the Aston Lower Grounds, a sports ground in a Victorian amusement park in the former grounds of Aston Hall, a Jacobean stately home.
Before 1914, a cycling track ran around the perimeter of the pitch where regular cycling meetings were hosted as well as athletic events.
Aside from football-related uses, the stadium has seen various concerts staged along with other sporting events including boxing matches and international rugby league and rugby union matches.
Aston Villa have plans to redevelop the North Stand: this would increase the capacity of Villa Park from 42,682 to 50,065.
The renovations are planned to be completed by UEFA Euro 2028.
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.
Aston Villa has been a leading English club since the 1880s, when its team were pioneers of the modern passing game.
This short, quick combination passing style was introduced by Scotsman George Ramsay, who was appointed as the world's first professional football manager in 1886.
The club was influential in the sport's move to professionalism in 1885, and it was a Villa director, William McGregor, who founded the world's first Football League in 1888.
George Ramsay's trophy haul of six League Championships and six FA Cups established Aston Villa as the most successful club in England, a position it held from the 1890s until the 1970s.
Villa scored 128 goals in season 1930–31, which remains the all-time top-flight record.
Aston Villa was a founding member of the Premier League in 1992, one of just three clubs to have been founding members of both the Football League and the Premier League.
During its history Villa has spent 110 seasons in the top-flight, the second highest of any club, and provided 76 England internationals, also the second highest of any club.
Aston Villa is currently ranked 5th in the all-time English top flight table, since its creation in 1888 and is the seventh most successful club in English football by competitive honours.
Villa have a fierce local rivalry with Birmingham City and the Second City derby between the teams has been played since 1879.
There is also a local rivalry with West Bromwich Albion, with matches between the sides known as the West Midlands derby.
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.
The club is currently owned by V Sports, a company owned by the Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris and the American billionaire Wes Edens.
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