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Manchester United
Manchester United Football Club, officially known as Manchester United FC, is an English football club that is one of the oldest and most distinguished clubs in the world and one of the most successful English and international teams throughout history. Its stadium is Old Trafford (Theater of Dreams) in Manchester, England. He won many trophies in English football and this includes the record number of English Premier League titles which is 20 titles, 12 titles of the FA Cup, 5 titles of the League Cup and 21 titles in the FA Shield competition. The club has also won 3 Champions League titles and 1 in each of these cups: the Europa League, the European Cup Winners' Cup, the European Super Cup, the Intercontinental Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. Its current owner is Malcolm Glazer.
Manchester United was founded on March 1, 1878, and the club was then called Newton Heath Railway Lancashire and Yorkshire and was founded by a group of railway workers in Manchester and the name was then shortened to Newton Heath and joined the Premier League in 1892 The club faced bankruptcy In 1902, John Henry Davies saved the club, paid debts, changed the name to Manchester United, and changed the team’s colors from gold and green to red and white. The club won the league in 1908. With the financial aid of Davis, the club moved to the new stadium, Old Trafford in 1909, and United appointed Sir Matt Busby as coach. After World War II, his policy that relied on players from the youth club brought great success to the club, and the team won the league in 1956 and 1957, but this success was affected after the Munich air disaster in 1958, and 8 of the team’s players died, but when Sir Besbi recovered from his injury as a result of the Munich accident, he built a team Another great club managed to win the league in 1965 and 1967, and then Manchester United became the first English club to win the 1967-68 European Cup after beating Benfica in the final, and The club did not see great success again until the 1990s when Sir Alex Ferguson led the team to 8 league titles in eleven years. In 1999, Manchester United became the first team to win the League, FA Cup and Champions League in one season.
The club is one of the most famous and best clubs in the world, as it has about 660 million fans around the world, which is a temporary number that can be increased, and this number makes United have twice the popularity of Real Madrid and Barcelona. He joined the English Premier League in 1891, the year in which this tournament was founded, and United have played in the First Division consecutively since 1938, with the exception of 1975, and the attendance rates were the highest in England, except for a few years, since the late nineties. It has the best return in all football clubs, in addition to being the most expensive club at all levels in all games around the world with an amount of £ 532 million according to the 2012 classification. Manchester United is one of the founding teams of the big European club group known as G14. Scottish coach Alex Ferguson is considered one of the most successful coaches in the history of the team, as he managed to win 38 championships during his stay in the club until he retired from training at the end of the 2012-13 Premier League season. The world's richest club is one of the most marketed clubs in the world, with annual revenues of 180 million euros.
Club History
Manchester United was founded in 1878 and was then called Newton Heath of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and was established by the Cars and Tankers Department of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) in the Newton Heath borough. The club initially played matches against departments and other line companies, but they played their first recorded match on November 2, 1880, wearing gold and green, the company's colors, and they faced Bolton Wanderers, and were defeated 6-0. The club became a founding member in 1888 of the Combination, a football league. But after only one season, this league ended, and Newton Heath joined the Football Alliance, the new established Football League, and this league ran for three seasons before it was merged with the Football League. The club played in the first division, and over time the club became independent from the company and removed (LYR) from its name to become only Newton Heath. After two seasons, the club was relegated to the second division.
In January 1902, with debts worth 2,670 pounds - equal to 210,000 pounds in 2013, an order came to the club to liquidate. Captain Harry Stafford found four businessmen, including John Henry Davies (who became president of the club), each of whom volunteered to invest £500 in direct interest in the interest of the club, which then changed its name, since on April 24, 1902 Manchester United had been "born". officially. Under the direction of coach Ernst Mangnall, who took over as coach in 1903, the team completed in the Second Division in 1906 as runners-up, thus being able to rise to the First Division, where in 1908 it managed to win the first league title. The club started the following season by winning its first FA Shield, and completed it by winning its first FA Cup. Manchester United won the league title for the second time in its history in 1911, but at the end of the season the coach left and took over the task of coaching Manchester City.
The Busby Years (1945-1969)
In October 1945, the imminent return to football led to Matt Busby as coach, who needed a new level of control over the team, transfers and training seasons. Busby led the team to runner-up in the League in 1947, 1948 and 1949 and led the team to win the FA Cup in 1948. In 1952 the club won the First Division for 41 years. The media described the team's back-to-back victories in 1956 as "Busby's Kids", because Busby believed in his young players, with an average age of 22. In 1957, Manchester United became the first club to compete in the European Cup despite opposition from the League, which had rejected Chelsea's chance last season. The club lost in the semi-finals to Real Madrid, but achieved a record in the tournament with the biggest victory in the club's history, beating Belgian champion Anderlecht 10-0, which is so far the biggest victory in the club's history.
The following season, when a plane carrying Manchester United players, club administrators and journalists was returning home after a European Cup victory over Red Star Belgrade in the quarter-finals, the plane crashed while trying to board after being refueled in Munich, Germany. This air disaster that occurred on February 6, 1958 cost the lives of 23 people, including 8 players: Jeff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Coleman, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Billy Whelan, Tommy Taylor, and injured many others.
Assistant coach Jimmy Murphy became coach instead of Busby until he recovered from his injuries and reached the temporary team to the FA Cup Final, but they lost to Bolton Wanderers. UEFA invited Manchester to compete in the 1958-59 Championship alongside league champions Wolverhampton Wanderers in recognition of the club's tragedy. Despite the approval of the Football Association, the League refused the club's entry into the competition if the club did not qualify. Busby rebuilt the team by signing new players such as Dennis Law and Pat Creennard, who played alongside the next generation of young players - including George Best - and won the FA Cup in 1963. The season after which they finished second in the league, and then won it in 1965 and 1967. In 1968, Manchester United became the first English club (and the second British club) to win the European Cup after beating Benfica in the final 4-1. With a squad that includes three players named European Player of the Year: George Best, Dennis Law and Bobby Charlton, Matt Busby re-signed to coach the club in 1969 and was replaced by former Manchester coach and player Wilf McGuinness.
1969-1986
After the club completed the 1969-70 season in eighth place and started poorly in the following season, Busby was convinced to resume training, and McGuinness returned as assistant coach. In 1971, Frank O'Farrell was appointed coach, but had 18 months left before he was replaced by Tommy Docherty in December 1972. Docherty saved the club from relegation that season until he saw him relegated in 1974, at which time the trio of Lou, Best and Charlton all left the club. The club managed to rise again on the first attempt, reaching the FA Cup Final in 1976 but were overpowered by Southampton. They reached the final again in 1977, beating Liverpool 2-1. Docherty was fired soon after, for having an affair with the wife of a physical therapist.
Dave Sexton became coach of the team in the summer of 1977. Although the team made great deals and deals, such as Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Gary Bailey and Ray Wilkins, the team did not get significant results, as they achieved second place in the league in the 1979 season 1980 - They lost to Arsenal in the 1979 FA Cup Final. Sexton was sacked in 1981 and replaced by Ron Atkinson, who immediately broke the British record for deal amounts by signing Brian Robson from West Bromwich Albion. Manchester United and Atkinson won the FA Cup twice in three years, in 1983 and 1985. In the 1985-1986 season, after 13 wins and two draws in the first 15 matches in the league, the club preferred to take the league, but completed the season in fourth place. The following season, the club was embroiled in relegation risk in November, so Atkinson was sacked.
The Ferguson Years (1986-2013)
Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day Atkinson was sacked, and led the club to finish their season 11th in the league. Although he finished the 1987-88 season as runners-up, in the following season he ranked eleventh again. Ferguson was close to being sacked, according to rumors, but the victory over Crystal Palace in the replay of the 1990 FA Cup Final (after a 3-3 draw) and achieving his first championship, saved Ferguson's career as a coach in Manchester. In the following season, Manchester won the European Cup Winners' Cup, and won the European Super Cup after defeating Red Star Belgrade, holders of the 1991 Champions League, 1-0 at Old Trafford. In 1992 the club reached the League Cup final for the second time in a row, defeating Nottingham Forest 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. In 1993, Manchester United won the league title for the first time since 1967, and in the following season, for the first time since 1957, they won the second title in a row. He won this title along with the FA Cup, to win the club the first historic double in its history.
In the summer of 2016, Jose Mourinho was appointed as coach, succeeding Louis van Gaal, with a contract valid until 2020. Mourinho began his career with United by making some changes, including Zlatan Ibrahimovic for free after the expiration of his contract with his former club Paris Saint-Germain, and then proceeded to He brought in a defender for the team, Ivorian player Eric Bailly, from Villarreal, followed by signing with Armenian international Henrikh Mkhitaryan from Dortmund. While the big surprise was the signing of Paul Pogba for 110 million euros from his former team, Juventus. But on the other hand, he gave up several players, such as Victor Valdes in the summer transfers, and Morgan Schneiderlin for Everton, then followed by former German international Bastian Schweinsteiger, leaving the club after a season and a half with the team, heading towards the American League, specifically with Chicago Fire, in the winter transfers.
Manchester United finished the season as the sixth in the Premier League with 69 points. But he managed to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup and was eliminated by Chelsea FC. Mourinho was also able to win his first title with Manchester when he won the Charity Shield at the expense of Leicester City, winning 2-1. He then won the League Cup after beating Southampton 3-2. Despite the local failure not to qualify for the Champions League, Manchester United managed to expose this failure in the European League, after winning the championship cup in the final meeting that took place in the Swedish capital Stockholm, winning the title at the expense of Ajax Amsterdam with a score of 0-2 scored by each of Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. With this win, Manchester United officially qualified for the Champions League indirectly. In his first season with Man United, Jose Mourinho won three trophies: the Charity Shield, the European League and the EFL Cup. In the second year of Jose Mourinho as coach of the Manchester United team, he was eliminated from the League Cup quarter-finals by Bristol City, who plays in the first division. In the Champions League, the team's group consisted of Basel, CSKA Moscow and Benfica, and the team succeeded in finishing the group stage as a leader. The team qualified for the final price and played against Seville, but was eliminated from the tournament after a 0-0 tie at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium and a 2-1 loss in the second leg at Old Trafford. In the FA Cup, the team succeeded in reaching the final of the tournament after beating Tottenham Hotspur with two goals to one.
Logo and club uniform
The club's crest is derived from the Manchester City Council crest, although the current crest has remained the same and is a fully sailing ship. The devil came from the club's emblem "Red Devils", which was one of the club's programs in the sixties of the last century, and merged with the logo in 1970, although the logo was not visible on the shirt until 1970 (unless the team played in the FA Cup final).
A photograph of Newton Heath Club was taken in 1892, and is believed to show the players wearing red and white shirts and blue shorts. Between 1894 and 1896 the club's players wore distinctive green and gold shirts, which were replaced in 1896 by white shirts and blue shorts. After the club's name was changed in 1902, the entire club kit changed, as they wore red shirts, white shorts and black socks, which became the club's main uniform. Thereafter, few changes were made to the club's uniform until 1922, when the club adopted the white shirt with a large V around its neck, similar to the shirt they wore in the 1909 FA Cup Final. Parts of the basic uniform remained until 1927.
Newton Heath initially played at North Road Stadium near the railway, and the stadium had a capacity of 12,000 people, but club administrators considered the stadium facilities to be unsuitable for a club hoping to join the Football League. Some expansions took place in 1887, and in 1892 Newton Heath used his minimal financial savings to set up two runways that could hold 1,000 people each. Although attendance was not recorded for many early matches at North Road, the highest documented attendance was approximately 15,000 spectators for a first-class match against Sunderland on 4 March 1893. Close to this number was also recorded for a friendly match against Sunderland. Gorton Villa on September 5, 1889.
After the club was evicted from the stadium by its owners in June 1893, club directors feeling it was inappropriate for a club to charge an entrance fee, Alfred Albot took Bankstreet Stadium in Clayton as his team's home ground. The stadium did not have stands at first, but with the beginning of the 1893-94 season two stands were built, the first longer than the field and located on one side of the field, and the second behind the goal at the "Bradford End". At the opposite end of the 'Clayton End' of the stadium was built, and so thousands flocked to the stadium. Newton Heath's first punk street match was against Burnley on September 1, 1893, when 10,000 people watched Alf Farman score a hat-trick, Newton Heath's only goals in the 3-2 victory. The rest of the stands have been completed for the next league game three weeks later, against Nottingham Forest. Before visiting Manchester City in October 1893, the club bought a stand with a capacity of 2,000 people from the Bruton Rangers club, which plays in the rugby league, and they put another stand until the stadium accommodated 12,000 for the Manchester City match.
After the first League title in 1908 and the first FA Cup title the following year, it was decided that punk street would constrain Davis' ambitions. In February 1909, six weeks before the first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was considered the club's home ground after buying land for around £60,000. Architect Archibald Leach was given a budget of 30,000 pounds to build. The original plans were to make the stadium a capacity of 100,000 seats, although the budget allows for a capacity of 77,000 seats. The stadium was built by Messrs. Brammald and Smith. The largest stadium attendance was on 25 March 1939, the FA Cup semi-final match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town, which attracted 76,962 spectators.
Some bombs were thrown at the stadium in World War II and damaged several parts, such as the main tunnel in the south runway. The club received compensation after the war, from the War Damage Committee, worth 22,278 pounds. While renovations are being carried out at the stadium, the club has played matches that are supposed to take place at its home ground in Manchester City's Main Road. Manchester United rented this stadium at £5,000 a year plus a percentage of the gate's profits. Other stadium improvements have been made such as the addition of decks to the Stretford End and the East and North Stands. The roofs prevented many audiences from seeing, and were replaced by cantilevers. Stretford's end was the last stand to receive the cantilever, as its laying was completed in the 1993-94 season. There are four torches with a length of 55 meters, each of them illuminates 54 individual lights. It was used for the first time on March 25, 1957, at a cost of 40,000 pounds. These headlights were removed in 1987, and replaced by a lighting system built into every roof of every runway, and this system has remained until today.
Taylor's report was required to reduce stadium seating to 44,000 at Old Trafford. The North Stand was renovated in 1995 and 3 new rows were added to increase the stadium's capacity to approximately 55,000. At the end of the 1998-99 season, additional rows were added to increase the capacity to approximately 67,000, and between May 2005 and July 2006 8,000 seats were added in the Northeast Ring Quarter and the Northwest Quarter. On March 26, 2006 the attendance of one of the matches was 69,070 people, which is a record in the Premier League. This number was constantly climbing until it reached the summit on March 31, 2007, when 76,098 spectators watched Manchester United defeat Blackburn Rovers 4-1, as there were only 114 unused seats (0.15 of the total capacity of 76,212). In 2009, the seats were arranged again, and this resulted in a lack of capacity for 255 people, and capacity reached 75,957 people. Manchester United has the highest attendance rate in Europe behind Borussia Dortmund.
fans
Manchester United is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with one of the highest attendance rates in the world. The club states that its fan base around the world includes more than 200 officially recognized Manchester United Fan Club (MUSC) affiliates in at least 24 countries. The club takes advantage of this encouragement through summer trips around the world. Accounting and sports industry firm Deloitte Experts estimate that Manchester United has 75 million fans worldwide, while other estimates say Manchester United has 333 million fans around the world.
Aston Villa
Aston Villa F.C. is a football club that was founded on November 21, 1874, and is headquartered in Aston, Birmingham, England. It is the most prominent team in the city of Birmingham. Aston Villa was one of England's most important clubs and one of the founders of the English Premier League in 1888, as well as one of the founding members of the English Premier League in 1992. It is reported that club president William McGregor, who headed Aston Villa in 1885, came up with the idea of creating the English Premier League. The club is participating in the English Premier League, after returning to the Premier League after an absence of 3 years in the English Premier League.
The team plays its official matches at Villa Park, a stadium built in 1897 with a capacity of 42,785,000 spectators. Aston Villa is one of only 5 English clubs to win the European Cup (currently known as the Champions League.) in the 1981–82 season, and also won the European Super Cup in the 1983 edition. Domestically, they have won the English Premier League 7 times. And the FA Cup 7 times, while they won the League Cup 5 times and the FA Shield once.
The team is known by several nicknames; The Lions, The Claret & Blue Army, The Villa, The Villa and The Villans The team has competed with its neighbor and archenemy Birmingham City Club, in a derby known as the Birmingham Derby since 1879. The team's official colors are claret shirts, with sky blue sleeves, white shorts and sky blue socks. Their traditional club crest is a rampant lion. The club is currently owned by the NSWE Group, a company owned by Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris and American billionaire Wes Edens.
Aston Villa Club was established in March 1874 with four members of the Villa: (Jack Hughes, Frederick Matthews, Walter Price, and the fourth, William Scattergood). Aston Villa played its first match with Aston Brook St Mary's Rugby Club, and one of the conditions of this match was that Aston Villa agreed to play the first half of the match under the Rugby Sports Law, and in the second half of the match with Football Law, and the match ended with Aston winning Villa 1-0. Then Aston Villa won their first championship in 1887 by beating West Bromwich Albion in the FA Cup.
Aston Villa was one of the twelve teams that competed in the inaugural Football League in 1888, with Aston Villa president William McGregor having come up with the idea of creating the Premier League. Aston Villa was the most successful English club in the Victorian era at the end of the Golden Villa era at the beginning of the First World War, where the club won 6 league championships and 5 cups during that period, winning the league championship for the sixth time in its history in 1920. After that, the level of Aston Villa declined Aston Villa slowly fell to the second division in 1936 for the first time in its history. Then he returned to participate in the English Premier League, starting from the 2019-20 season.
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Founding and beginning of the Football League (1874-1920)
This kind of playing matches with the law of rugby and football matches was unusual. Despite that, the match was played and the Aston Villa team tried to come out with a tie result in the first half, which was applied by the rugby law, which the team succeeded in, and in the second half, which was applied by the football law, the Aston Villa team succeeded In scoring a goal that ended the match by player Jack Hughes. Aston Villa club then failed to find another competitor this season, but it was more successful in the following season, as most of the Villa matches were played in Aston Park and the other matches were played next to Aston Hull Palace, the current home of Villa Park. In Aston Park after that, there was the most important fate of Aston Villa, where George Ramsay of Scotland (21 years) came and asked to play with the Aston Villa team and participated in a match for the Villa and amazed the players and attendees with his speed, skill and charm. The members of the Aston Villa team immediately offered George Ramsey to be a member and captain of the team and from that moment George Ramsey became a legend on and off the field and helped develop the Aston Villa stadium in Berry Bar.
One of George Ramsey's most important contributions to Aston Villa was his assistance to Frederick Rinder negotiating the purchase of Villa Park land in 1896. After the legend of George Ramsey, Aston Villa introduced the second legend, Archie Hunter, who came to the area to sign for Calthorpe Club but lost his way. Archie Hunter heard in the region that his Scottish compatriot George Ramsey was seeking to include the new stars of the Aston Villa club, so he signed for Aston Villa with the help of George Ramsey, and Hunter was a great gain for Aston Villa and a great loss for Calthorp
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Founding and beginning of the Football League (1874-1920)
In the 1870s (1874-1879) Aston Villa Club was established in 1874 by members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel Cricket Club. The first meeting to discuss the composition of the new team was near Trinity Road in Aston, north of Birmingham, and after the meeting Walter Price was appointed as captain and captain of the team and the team was formed and the task of trying to find suitable competing teams began and this was difficult because rugby in Birmingham was very popular in it The time and there were some football clubs such as Clathorpe and Stafford Road and they were very strong teams at that time. - Finally, in March of 1875 Aston Villa prepared for its first match against Aston Brook St Mary's rugby team and one of the conditions of this match was that Aston Villa agreed to play The first half is according to the law of rugby matches, and the second half is played according to the law of football matches.
This kind of playing matches with the law of rugby and football matches was unusual. Despite that, the match was played and the Aston Villa team tried to come out with a tie result in the first half, which was applied by the rugby law, which the team succeeded in, and in the second half, which was applied by the football law, the Aston Villa team succeeded In scoring a goal that ended the match by player Jack Hughes. Aston Villa club then failed to find another competitor this season, but it was more successful in the following season, as most of the Villa matches were played in Aston Park and the other matches were played next to Aston Hull Palace, the current home of Villa Park. In Aston Park after that, there was the most important fate of Aston Villa, where George Ramsay of Scotland (21 years) came and asked to play with the Aston Villa team and participated in a match for the Villa and amazed the players and attendees with his speed, skill and charm. The members of the Aston Villa team immediately offered George Ramsey to be a member and captain of the team and from that moment George Ramsey became a legend on and off the field and helped develop the Aston Villa stadium in Berry Bar.
One of George Ramsey's most important contributions to Aston Villa was his assistance to Frederick Rinder negotiating the purchase of Villa Park land in 1896. After the legend of George Ramsey, Aston Villa introduced the second legend, Archie Hunter, who came to the area to sign for Calthorpe Club but lost his way. Archie Hunter heard in the region that his Scottish compatriot George Ramsey was seeking to include the new stars of the Aston Villa club, so he signed for Aston Villa with the help of George Ramsey, and Hunter was a great gain for Aston Villa and a great loss for Calthorpe. Where Hunter participated with Aston Villa in 73 games and scored 42 goals.
The team was eliminated from the third round of the FA Cup after a 2-3 defeat at Stafford Road in the 1880-1881 season. In the following season, the 1881-1882 season, the club managed to achieve several records, as Howard Vaughton and Albert Arthur Brown became the first Villa players to participate with the England national team, where they played with the England national team against Ireland in Belfast, where Foughton scored 5 Goals Brown scored 4 goals in England's 13-0 victory over Ireland. The club changed its shirts this year to a chestnut color with a large lion painted in the shirt and the lion was chosen as the team's logo by George Ramsey in appreciation of Scotland. In the FA Cup, Aston Villa beat Nottingham Forest, and in the second round they went up without playing, and Aston Villa beat Notts County in the third round before losing to Winnesbury Old Athletic.
In the 1882-1883 season, and specifically in 1883, there was increasing control of the entry of professionals from abroad, especially from Scotland, and the club that attracted the most professionals was Preston North End. Aston Villa's FA Cup campaign began with a win over Wal Sal Swifts, followed by a win over Winnesbury Old Athletic, then a win over Aston Unity and a win over Wal Sal Town before losing away from Notts County 4-3. While in the 1883-1884 season, Aston Villa beat Wal Sal Swifts, Stafford Road and Waynesbury before traveling to Glasgow in Scotland to meet Queen's Park - at that time several Scottish clubs entered the FA Cup - Aston Villa returned from Scotland with a heavy 6-1 defeat. After that defeat, Aston Villa's playing style changed by playing with two full-backs instead of one. In the 1884-1885 season, Aston Villa were eliminated from the FA Cup after losing 0-3 in the third round against West Bromwich Albion.
In the 1885-1886 season, Aston Villa were eliminated in the second round after a 2-0 loss to Derby County. While in the 1886-1887 season, the team managed to reach the cup final, where the team started its campaign with the largest victory in its history over Winnesbury Old Athletic with a score of 13-0, followed by a victory over the Midland derby in the second round. In the third round, Aston Villa needed to play 4 matches to beat Wolverhampton after 3 consecutive draws. Aston Villa qualified for the fifth round without playing, then met Horn Castle and beat it 5-0, then faced Darwin's team and won it 3-2. In the semi-finals, Aston Villa faced Glasgow Rangers in Crewe and won 3-1 after the FA allowed Rangers to loan some players from other clubs. In the final match, Aston Villa defeated West Bromwich Albion 2-0, scored by Dennis Hodges and Archie Hunter, who received the first trophy for Aston Villa. In the 1887-1888 season, the 12 clubs met to establish the English Premier League (Aston Villa - Wolverhampton - West Bromwich Albion - Stoke City - Derby County - Notts County - Burnley - Blackburn Rovers - Bolton - Everton - Preston North - Accrington), and in FA Cup Aston Villa were eliminated in the fifth round after losing to Preston North by three goals. In the 1888-1889 season, the English Premier League was launched, and in its first year, Aston Villa finished second behind Premier League champion Preston North End. While in the FA Cup, Aston Villa suffered the biggest defeat in its history, after losing in the third round to Blackburn Rovers, 8-1.
Aston Villa and the League and Cup double season 1896/1897
Aston Villa won the first league championship in the 1893-94 season. Aston Villa had a large audience that could reach 25,000 spectators, while the cup final hosted about 20,000 spectators. In 1897 Aston Villa's financial secretary Frederick Rinder negotiated the purchase of land as a new stadium for Aston Villa (present-day Villa Park). The land was not bought out completely until 1911. Aston Villa started the twentieth century as champions of England, but the advantages that distinguished Aston Villa from other clubs began to diminish as there was great competition between many clubs, but despite that Aston Villa remained an important force in England. 1902-1903 season Aston Villa have won 12 of the last 15 games to finish the league, one point behind leaders Sheffield Onesday. In 1905 Aston Villa won the FA Cup with a 2-0 victory over Newcastle United and in the same season finished the league in fourth place.
After the success of Aston Villa in 1905, the team went through a barren period until the 1909-1910 season came, in which the team competed for the league, where the season's champion defeated Manchester United 7-1, and the league champion was not determined until the last day, as Aston Villa lost from Liverpool and Manchester United won over Sunderland.
The following season, Villa finished sixth in the league and won the FA Cup in 1913.
The period of ups and downs (1920-1964)
Football resumed after the war in the 1919-20 season and Aston Villa won the FA Cup for the sixth time in its history after defeating Huddersfield Town at Stamford Bridge. In the 1923-1924 season, Aston Villa celebrated the golden jubilee and the 50th anniversary of its founding. Aston Villa reached the cup final, but lost to Newcastle United 2-0 at Wembley. In 1927 Aston Villa officials tried to stem the slump in transfer deals, buying players Jimmy Gibson and Eric Hutton. In 1928, he moved to Aston Villa, one of the most scoring strikers in the English Premier League, when Aston Villa signed a contract with Tranmere Rovers striker Tom Bongo Wearing for 4,700 pounds. Tom Bongo was relatively unknown, but he scored 49 goals in the 1930-1931 season, which brought Aston Villa to second place in the league behind Arsenal, and Aston Villa striker Eric Houghton scored 30 goals this season. Record ).
In the 1933-34 season, Aston Villa was