Aston Villa F.C. in international football

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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, losing in the first round to Antwerp, with their first match being a 4–1 loss on 17 September 1975. Aston Villa are one of the six clubs from England to have won the European Cup, winning in 1982, beating Bayern Munich in the final, after winning the 1980–81 English First Division. In the same year, they won the 1982 European Super Cup against 1982 Cup Winners' Cup champions, Barcelona, and played in the 1982 Intercontinental Cup, against Copa Libertadores holders, Peñarol, although they lost this 2–0. Aston Villa was also one of the winners of the 2001 Intertoto Cup, and won the 2025–26 UEFA Europa League. Aston Villa has played in nineteen seasons of UEFA competitions, although the 2024–25 Champions League was the club's first participation in a first-tier European competition since the 1982–83 European Cup.

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