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Aston Villa F.C. Overview

Since the creation of the Football League, Aston Villa has spent 88 of 101 seasons in England’s top flight.

Aston Villa Stadium

For Aston Villa, 2009-10 is its 93rd season at Villa Park, which opened on April 17, 1897 with a "friendly" against Blackburn Rovers. The match occurred one week after Villa completed a domestic double, winning the 1897 First Division and FA Cup championships.

The original capacity was 40,000.Most attendees stood in the open. Floodlights were installed in 1958. Today, the seating capacity is 42,640.

Villa Park has hosted 16 international matches in three centuries. The first occurred in 1899. The most recent occurred in 2005.

Villa Park is one of six stadiums that will host matches in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Aston Villa Football Club Manager.

Martin O’Neill brings a record of 54-45-39 into his fourth season at Aston Villa.

O’Neill, who became a coach in 1987, has a career winning percentage of more than 53 percent. He joined Villa in August 2006 after caring for his wife, who was seriously ill, for more than one year.

Prior to Villa, O’Neill had highly a successful stint at Celtic. In five seasons (2000-01 to 2004-05), Celtic won six major Scotland championships, including three of the Premier League.

In his excellent playing career as a midfielder, O’Neill helped Nottingham Forest win European Cup championships in 1979 and 1980. His 64 international appearances for Northern Ireland included being captain of the team that competed in the 1982 World Cup Final.

From 1919-20 through 2008-09, Villa usually has fielded a competitive side. But silverware has not been as plentiful.

By finishing sixth in the Premier League in 2008-09, Villa will compete in the 2009-10 Europa League (formerly the UEFA Cup).

William McGregor and George Ramsey also are legendary Villans.

Villa earned the bulk of its domestic silverware in a "golden age" — 1887 through the 1914-15 season, after which football was suspended due to World War I.

McGregor was the force behind the creation of the Football League for the 1888-89 season. He later became president and chairman of the Football League and chairman of the FA.

The Villans have been in the top flight for 61 of those 74 seasons. They won two additional FA Cups (1920, 1957), one additional First Division championship (1981), five League Cups (1961, 1975, 1977, 1994, 1996), one InterToto Cup (2001), one European Super Cup (1983) and one European Cup (1982).

Villa has been a member of the Premier League, formerly the First Division, since its founding for the 1992-93 season. Villa had its best season in 1992-93, finishing in second place.

Villa’s haul of domestic trophies includes seven FA Cups and seven First Division championships. The crowing achievement was winning the European Cup in 1982.

From 1888-89 through 1914-15, Villa won four more FA Cups (1895, 1897, 1905, 1913). In all of those seasons, Villa played in the First Division and won six championships (1894, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1910).

Ramsey was Villa’s manager from 1883-84 through 1925-26, His teams won six FA Cups and five First Division championships.

On May 26, 1982, Villa won the European Cup by defeating Bayern Munich, 1-0, in Rotterdam, Holland. Peter Withe scored the goal.

Aston Villa was founded in 1874 by criketers in Birmingham’s Aston District who were seeking off-season recreation.

Led by forward Archie Hunter, Villa won its first FA Cup in 1887.

Villa is one of four England teams to win what is now known as the UEFA Champions League.

West Ham United F.C. – A Brief Summary

West Ham United is an English football club based in the borough of Newham in East London. They currently play in the English Premier League, having finished 9th at the end of the 08/09 season.

The team’s traditional colours are claret(a deep red) and light blue, the latter usually on the sleeves. The current season’s home kit features a check pattern on the shirt and blue trim rather than full sleeves for a change of pace(which helps also to differentiate their shirts from the nearly identical kit of Aston Villa), and the away shirt is a dark blue with a light blue stripe, a reference to the all-dark blue kit that was the original shirt worn by the team.

The club was formed originally in 1895 by the workers of Thames Ironworks under its original name, Thames Ironworks FC. The team remained an amateur group for the next few years, achieving considerable success. They won the first West Ham Charity Cup in 1895, a tournament of local teams, and the London League in 1897.

In 1898 Thames Ironworks FC became a professional team, joining the old Southern League’s second division, and ascending to first division shortly thereafter. Due to internal problems the team disbanded, but reformed as West Ham United in July of 1900.

West Ham played in the new Division 1 during the Premiership’s inaugural season in 1992-93, finished in second and was promoted to the Premier League for the following season, where it has remained with the exception of the ‘03-’04 season.

In honor of its origins as a group of iron workers the team is referred to by the nicknames The Hammers and The Irons, and the club crest is an image of the front of the old ironworks with a pair of crossed hammers in the forefront. The fact that the word ‘hammer’ sounds like ‘ham’ is simply a fortunate coincidence.

West Ham’s youth system is also well-renowned and has brought a number of prominent British players to light, resulting in the other descriptive nickname for the club, The Academy of Football.

West Ham United Stadium

The Hammers play at the Boleyn Ground, more commonly called Upton Park after the area of East London in which it is located. The stadium has been their home since 1912, when the team established themselves at the grounds of the old Green Street House, which was known also as Boleyn Castle due to its size and association with Anne Boleyn. This later became known as the Boleyn Ground. The stadium seats 35,303 at top capacity and is arranged in the familiar rectangular design of English football grounds, with tiered seating sections outlining the field at right angles to one another. The second world war had its effects shown in East London when a German V-1 rocket struck the stadium in August of 1944, fortunately while the park was unoccupied. The team played all of its games away until December when its repairs were completed.

West Ham United Manager

West Ham’s current manager is Italian Gianfranco Zola, who won great acclaim in English football as an attacking midfielder and forward for Chelsea in years previous. Zola was well known for his aggressive, dedicated offensive play and his creativity and technical prowess with the ball. He became West Ham’s manager at the beginning of the past season(08-09) and his positive effects became quickly evident, with a focus on creative passing, quick-thinking tactical play and positive, attack-heavy football showing through and bringing new life to a famous and storied team.