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The club won its first FA Cup in 1887 with captain Archie Hunter becoming one of the game's first household names.nhl [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] Aston Villa were one of the dozen teams that competed in the inaugural Football League in 1888 with one of the club's directors, William McGregor being the league's founder. Aston Villa emerged as the most successful English club of the Victorian era, winning no fewer than five League titles and three FA Cups by the end of Queen Victoria's reign.[14] In 1897, the year Villa won The Double,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they moved into their present home, the Aston Lower Grounds.[15] Supporters coined the name "Villa Park"; no official declaration listed the ground as Villa Park.[16]
Aston Villa won their sixth FA Cup in 1920, soon after though the club began a slow decline that led to Villa, at the time one of the most famous and successful clubs in world football, being relegated in 1936 for the first time to the Second Division. This was largely the result of a dismal defensive record: they conceded 110 goals in 42 games,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] 7 of them coming from Arsenal's Ted Drake in an infamous 1–7 defeat at Villa Park.[17] Like all English clubs, Villa lost seven seasons to the Second World War, and that conflict brought several careers to a premature end.[18] The team was rebuilt under the guidance of former player Alex Massiefor the remainder of the 1940s. Aston Villa's first trophy for 37 years came in the 1956–57 season when another former Villa player, Eric Houghton led the club to a then record seventh FA Cup Final win, defeating the 'Busby Babes' of Manchester United in the final.[19] The team struggled in the league though and were relegated two seasons later, due in large part to complacency. However, under the stewardship of manager Joe Mercer Villa returned to the top-flight in 1960 as Second Division Champions. The following season Aston Villa became the first team to win the Football League Cup.[20]
Mercer's forced retirement from the club in 1964 signaled a period of deep turmoil. The most successful club in England was struggling to keep pace with changes in the modern game, with Villa being relegated for the third time, under manager Dick Taylor in 1967. The following season the fans called for the board to resign as Villa finished 16th in the Second Division. With mounting debts and Villa lying at the bottom of Division Two, the board sacked Cummings (the manager brought in to replace Taylor), and within weeks the entire board resigned under overwhelming pressure from fans.

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