• Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded...
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    Aston Villa Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Aston, Birmingham, who currently play in the Premier League. The...
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  • 1982 European Cup final was played on 26 May 1982 at the end of the 1981–82 European Cup season. Football League First Division winners Aston Villa defeated...
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    Libertadores, and Aston Villa, winners of the 1981–82 European Cup. The match was played at the National Stadium in Tokyo. It was Aston Villa's first appearance...
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    Aston Villa Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Aston, Birmingham, who currently play in the Premier League. The...
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  • The 1982–83 season was Aston Villa's 83rd season in the Football League. Tony Barton was manager after Ron Saunders had resigned in the previous season...
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    a list of seasons played by Aston Villa Football Club in English and European football, from 1879 (the year of the club's first FA Cup entry) to the most...
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    The 1981–82 English football season was Aston Villa's 82nd season in the Football League. In May 1982, just three months after being appointed manager...
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  • The Aston Villa Under-21s, formerly known as Aston Villa Reserves and Aston Villa Under-23s, are the most senior youth development team of Aston Villa and...
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  • 000. 22 August 1981: Aston Villa & Tottenham Hotspur draw 2–2 in the FA Charity Shield at Wembley. 29 August 1981: The first Football League games of...
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    The 1981–82 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the only time by Aston Villa in the final against Bayern Munich. It was the...
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  • the 1981–82 FA Cup winners. Swansea City qualified for the European Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round as the 1982 Welsh Cup winners. Aston Villa qualified...
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    nickname 'God' at Aston Villa. Mainly a centre back, he also played as defensive midfielder. He spent the majority of his career at Villa and Manchester...
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    The history of Aston Villa Football Club from 1961 to the current season covers the fluctuating fortunes of the club during the 1960s and 1970s, the European...
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  • The 1982 European Super Cup was contested between the European Cup holders Aston Villa and the Cup Winners' Cup holders Barcelona. The match took place...
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    Aston Villa Football Club is a professional football club, based in Birmingham. The club first played in Europe in the UEFA Cup in the 1975–76 season,...
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  • managers of Aston Villa Football Club comprises all those who have held the position of secretary or manager of the first team of Aston Villa since the...
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    professional football by the Football Association in 1885, the Football League was established in 1888, after meetings initiated by Aston Villa director William...
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    English footballer, playing as an outside right, and football manager. He was born in Sutton, Surrey and managed Aston Villa to success in the 1982 European...
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    Peter Withe (category Aston Villa F.C. players)
    and the Football League Cup in 1977–78, and the 1978 FA Charity Shield. After a spell at Newcastle it was back to more success at Aston Villa with whom...
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    Gordon Cowans (category Aston Villa F.C. players)
    (born 27 October 1958) is an English retired football player and coach. Cowans started his career at Aston Villa as an apprentice in 1974, and signed as a...
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    was not won by an English club. Aston Villa, the defending champions, were eliminated by Juventus in the quarter-finals. Villa's 3–1 first round victory...
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    English professional football striker who played for Aston Villa in the early 1980s. During the 1980s, Shaw's goals helped Aston Villa win the First Division...
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  • QPR, Derby and Aston Villa. He won six caps for England. He later managed Portsmouth, Plymouth Argyle, Wycombe Wanderers, Aston Villa, Derby County, Queens...
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    Doug Ellis (category Aston Villa F.C. directors and chairmen)
    English entrepreneur. He was the chairman of Aston Villa Football Club from 1968 to 1975, and again from 1982 until 2006. Ellis was knighted in the 2012...
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    Scottish football broadcaster and former player. He played as a forward for Dundee United, Aston Villa, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Everton, Aston Villa, Notts...
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    Nigel Spink (category Aston Villa F.C. players)
    an English football coach and former professional footballer. He played as a goalkeeper from 1976 until 2001. He made his name at Aston Villa and also made...
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  • English football, the Second City derby or Birmingham derby is the local derby between the two major clubs in the city of Birmingham—Aston Villa and Birmingham...
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    Des Bremner (category Aston Villa F.C. players)
    professional football midfielder. He made more than 600 league appearances for clubs in both Scotland and England, was a member of Aston Villa's European...
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    Tony Morley (category Aston Villa F.C. players)
    an English former footballer who played as a winger. He played in the Football League for Preston North End, Burnley, Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion...
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