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== Stadium == {{Main|Villa Park}} {{wide image|VillaPark PanoramaFromTrinityRoadStand.jpg|750px|A panorama of Villa Park from the Trinity Road Stand, showing from left to right the North Stand, the Doug Ellis Stand and the Holte End}} Aston Villa's current home venue is Villa Park; the team previously played at Aston Park (1874β1876) and [[Wellington Road (Perry Barr)|Wellington Road]] (1876β1897). Villa Park is the largest football stadium in the English Midlands, and the eighth largest stadium in England. It has hosted 16 England internationals at senior level, the first in 1899, and the most recent in 2005. Thus, it was the first English ground to stage international football in three different centuries.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lockley |first=Mike |title=When the world came to Villa Park... |work=Birmingham Mail |date=7 June 2014 |url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/villa-park-world-cup-highlights-7229794 |access-date=25 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927152614/http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/villa-park-world-cup-highlights-7229794|archive-date=27 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Villa Park is the most used stadium in FA Cup semi-final history, having hosted 55 semi-finals. In 2022, the club announced plans to rebuild the North Stand and part of the Trinity Road stand, which will take the maximum capacity over 50,000.<ref>{{cite news |title=Aston Villa launch ground improvement plans |language=en-GB |publisher=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61965353 |access-date=28 June 2022 |archive-date=28 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628145237/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/61965353 |url-status=live}}</ref> The current training ground is located at [[Bodymoor Heath Training Ground|Bodymoor Heath]] near [[Kingsbury, Warwickshire|Kingsbury]] in north [[Warwickshire]], the site for which was purchased by former chairman Doug Ellis in the early 1970s from a local farmer. Although Bodymoor Heath was state-of-the-art in the 1970s, by the late 1990s the facilities had started to look dated. In November 2005, Ellis and Aston Villa plc announced a state of the art [[Pound sterling|Β£]]13 million redevelopment of Bodymoor in two phases. The new training ground was officially unveiled on 6 May 2007, by then manager [[Martin O'Neill]], then team captain [[Gareth Barry]] and 1982 European Cup winning team captain [[Dennis Mortimer]], with the Aston Villa squad moving in for the 2007β08 season.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825003721/http://www.avfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/HeadlinesDetail/0%2C%2C10265~1021732%2C00.html |archive-date=25 August 2007 |title=Gaffer on BMH |publisher=Aston Villa F.C |url=http://www.avfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/HeadlinesDetail/0,,10265~1021732,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was announced on 6 August 2014, that Villa Park would appear in the [[FIFA (video game series)|FIFA video game]] from ''[[FIFA 15]]'', with all other Premier League stadiums also fully licensed from this game onwards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4056665,00.html|title=Villa Park to make debut in EA SPORTS FIFA 15 game β Latest News β Aston Villa |work=avfc.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810110536/http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10265~4056665%2C00.html |archive-date=10 August 2014}}</ref>
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