Older Than deck / Places, institutions and traditions
Aston Villa
Football club formed
1874
A Birmingham club and one of the founders of the Football League.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“Aston Villa was founded in 1874”Minnesota United FC / TJ Gulenchnyn: source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server check
“Den ble stiftet i 1874”Store norske leksikon / Tor Håkon Solheim and Jan Holm (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server checkSpotted a mistake? Tell us; a correction gets a new revision.