Villa Park facts for kids
Villa Park is a football stadium in Birmingham, England. It is the current home stadium of Aston Villa. The colour of the seats are blue and claret because Villa's traditional home colours are claret and blue. The ground is located near the border between the two Birmingham inner-city suburbs of Aston and Witton, and is at the northern edge of Aston Park. The stands are called the Holte End, the Doug Ellis Stand, the Trinity Road Stand and the North Stand.
Images for kids
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The Holte Hotel behind the Holte End, part of the original Aston Lower Grounds, refurbished in 2006
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Villa Park during a match against Liverpool in 1907; the ground is yet to be squared off, and the cycle track can still be seen.
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The brick facade of the Holte End, rebuilt in 1994 in the style of the adjacent Trinty Rd stand built in 1922
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A diagram showing the alignment of stands at Villa Park
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The two-tiered stand, the Holte End
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The facade of the new Trinity Road Stand, built over the Trinity Road
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The concrete facade of the North Stand, the oldest stand at Villa Park
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A 1996 European championship game between Scotland and the Netherlands
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Chart showing the average attendance at Villa Park from 1947 to 2008
