Aston Villa Football Club is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1874, they have played at their home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Villa is one of only five English clubs to have won the European Cup in 1981–82. They have also won the Football League First Division seven times, the FA Cup seven times, the League Cup five times, and the European Super Cup once.
Villa has an aggressive local rivalry with Birmingham City and the Second City contest between the teams has been played since 1879. 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.