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Aston Villa
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, known as the Villans (Villa Park, Birmingham).
Football club formed in the spring of 1874 by members of a Wesleyan chapel in Aston, a suburb to the northeast of Birmingham. The club turned professional in 1885. A committee member, William McGregor, then put forward the idea that prominent sides in the Midlands should form a *Football League, and Villa became one of the original 12 League teams in 1888. They had an early period of extraordinary success (five wins between 1894 and 1900).
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