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A day at Villa Park with Club Level seats and pre-match dining.
Birmingham
12°
Rain showers
Our best tips
Birmingham in October averages 9–15°C. There is a decent chance of rain, so pack a compact waterproof just in case.
Smart casual is the standard in Premier League hospitality suites. Think collared shirts and smart trousers rather than replica kits. Most venues will turn away guests in sportswear or football shirts.
Arrive at Villa Park at least two hours before kick-off to enjoy the full pre-match hospitality. Bring a valid photo ID, as most Premier League venues require one for entry.
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Getting around
Witton station is the closest, around a ten-minute walk from the ground. Aston station is also nearby. Both are served by regular trains from Birmingham New Street.
Taxis and ride-hailing services are widely available from Birmingham city centre. Allow extra time on match days as traffic around the Aston Expressway builds quickly.
Villa Park is well connected by road, close to junction 6 of the M6. On-site parking is limited, so pre-booking through your ICE events manager is recommended.
Aston Villa are one of English football's founding giants, formed in 1874 and among the twelve clubs that established the Football League in 1888. Brentford, founded in 1889, spent 74 years outside the top flight before their remarkable return to the Premier League in 2021. When these two sides meet at Villa Park, it is a fixture that pairs Victorian pedigree with one of modern football's most compelling underdog stories.
I always say to people, if you want to know what Aston Villa means, go and stand on the Holte End when the team comes out.
We are a big club. We have won the European Cup. Not many clubs in this country can say that.
A chapel cricket club simply needed something to do in winter; the rest is football history.
On 21 November 1874, members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Handsworth, Birmingham, decided they needed a winter sport to keep the cricket team together. Football was the answer. Within a decade, the club had outgrown its chapel origins and was competing at the highest level of the English game.
The Football League was not inevitable. It took one Villa director, one letter, and twelve willing clubs.
Aston Villa were one of twelve clubs that formed the Football League in 1888, the world's first league competition. Villa's director William McGregor was the driving force behind the idea, writing to fellow clubs to propose regular fixtures. He is rightly known as the Father of the League. Villa won the first of their seven league titles in 1893-94 and claimed the FA Cup in 1887, 1895, and 1897, establishing themselves as the dominant force of Victorian football.
Brentford began as a rowing club's winter hobby; even their founding story echoes Villa's own.
Brentford FC were established on 10 October 1889 by members of a rowing club looking for a winter pastime. The parallels with Villa's own origins are striking. The Bees initially played at various grounds in the Brentford and Ealing area before settling at Griffin Park in 1904, a ground that would remain their home for 116 years.
A ground that hosted FA Cup semi-finals almost immediately, Villa Park has been shaping football history for well over a century.
Aston Villa moved to the Aston Lower Grounds in 1897, a site that would become Villa Park. The ground hosted FA Cup semi-finals almost from the outset and grew into one of England's great stadiums. It was selected as a venue for the 1966 World Cup and Euro 96, and will host matches at Euro 2028. Today it holds 43,205 and remains one of the most atmospheric grounds in the country.
Brentford marked their 1935 top-flight debut with a fifth-place finish, a height they would not reach again for over eighty years.
After years in the lower divisions, Brentford won promotion to the First Division in 1935. They finished fifth in their debut top-flight season and remained in the First Division until 1947. This pre-war period represented the high-water mark of Brentford's history for decades to come, with the club not returning to the top flight until 2021.
Nigel Spink had barely played a first-team match; by full time in Rotterdam, he was a European champion.
On 26 May 1982, Aston Villa beat Bayern Munich 1-0 in the European Cup final at De Kuip in Rotterdam. Peter Withe scored the only goal, and goalkeeper Nigel Spink, making just his second first-team appearance, produced a heroic performance. It remains the crowning achievement in Villa's history and placed the club among an elite group of English sides to have won European football's greatest prize.
Seventy-four years between top-flight appearances, ended with a Wembley clean sheet.
Brentford won the 2021 Championship play-off final 2-0 against Swansea City at Wembley, securing promotion to the Premier League for the first time since 1947. Under Thomas Frank, the Bees had built a squad through shrewd recruitment and data-driven scouting, becoming one of the most admired models in English football. Their first season back saw them finish a comfortable 13th.
Four years from relegation scrap to Champions League football; Emery's turnaround belongs in the history books.
Under Unai Emery, Aston Villa finished fourth in the 2023-24 Premier League season, qualifying for the Champions League for the first time since their European Cup triumph in 1982. The transformation from a club that narrowly avoided relegation in 2020 to Champions League participants in four years stands as one of the most remarkable turnarounds in modern English football. Villa Park, already a special place on a Saturday afternoon, gained a new dimension under the midweek European floodlights.
