FA Cup semi-finals
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The FA Cup semi-finals are played to determine which teams will contest the FA Cup Final. They are the penultimate phase of the FA Cup, the oldest football tournament in the world.
Since 2008, the new Wembley Stadium has been the home of the FA Cup semi-final.
Highfield Road in Coventry (1982 image) hosted the only semi-final third replay in 1979–80.
Villa Park in Birmingham hosted 55 semi-final matches between 1901 and 2007, more than any other stadium.
Playing in their first semi-final, Woolwich Arsenal (in dark shirts) faced Newcastle United (in striped shirts) at the Victoria Ground, Stoke in 1906.
Villa Park
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Villa Park is a football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 42,640. It has been the home of Premier League club Aston Villa since 1897. The ground is less than a mile from both Witton and Aston railway stations and has hosted sixteen England internationals at senior level, the first in 1899 and the most recent in 2005. Villa Park has hosted 55 FA Cup semi-finals, more than any other stadium, and it is the 10th largest in England.
The Holte Hotel behind the Holte End, part of the original Aston Lower Grounds, refurbished in 2006
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.
The brick facade of the Holte End, rebuilt in 1994 in the style of the adjacent Trinty Rd stand, built in 1922