Aston Villa vs Sporting CP Tickets

Portuguese giants travel to Villa Park, and fans of either the Premier League outfit or the Primeira Liga side can take their pick from our huge range of Aston Villa vs Sporting Lisbon tickets today.

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Aston Villa vs Sporting Lisbon History

Aston Villa’s involvement in Europe has been sporadic, to say the least. However, when playing on the biggest stage, the Midlands club have proven remarkably effective. In 1981/82, Tony Barton’s side qualified for the European Cup for the first time and somehow contrived to defeat Bayern Munich in the final in Rotterdam. The success is undoubtedly the biggest in the history of the club and fans would have been ecstatic at qualifying for the competition again in 2024/25, as it had been over forty years since their last campaign in UEFA’s showpiece event.

Though arguably Portugal’s ‘third’ team, behind Benfica and FC Porto, Sporting Lisbon have had plenty of success in Europe over the years. They won the now-defunct European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1964, defeating MTK Budapest in the final, and reached the final of the UEFA Cup in 2005. As far as their record in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, things have been less glorious. The Verdes e brancos reached the Quarter-Finals of the competition in 1982/83, and in the more recent iteration of the tournament, the best the club have managed is a Round of 16 finish.

Aston Villa vs Sporting Lisbon Head-to-Head

These two teams have never met in competitive European action, adding an additional gloss to this unmissable clash.

Aston Villa vs Sporting Lisbon Mutual Connections

Very few players have represented both teams, but among those who have are English-born former Portuguese Under-21 international defender Tiago Ilori. He played at Sporting at the youth team level before moving to Liverpool in 2013 and spending a spell on loan at Aston Villa, failing to start a single game, before moving to Reading and then back to Sporting Lisbon in 2018.