Tickets and hotel packages to Aston Villa

Initially, football wasn’t the main activity in the area where Villa Park now resides. Cricket actually had precedence at the stadium of the time, called Lower Park. Athletics and cycling were also prominent competition for football. When Aton Villa started to achieve great progress, the stadium was moved to Perry Barr. After the team’s League win in 1897, however, it moved back to Lower Park, which had then been converted to a football stadium. It was also then that the stadium was given its current name.

At the beginning of the 1900’s, Villa Park could hold 40,000 spectators. When they later removed the cycle velodrome that went around the field, the capacity was further increased. After World War I, Villa Park could welcome well over 70,000 visitors.

Just like with all other stadiums in England, its capacity has shrunk as time have passed. New safety rules forced them to remake all standing bleachers into seats.