Size: Default Title

Condition: 8/10 Excellent. Light wear

Size: Children's

Chest Measurement: 34-36 Inches / 87-91 CM

Manufacturer: Le Coq Sportif

Colour: Claret, light blue trim

Material: Polyester

Seasons: 1983/1984

Player: N/A

Patches: N/A

Official Le Coq Sportif Aston Villa long sleeve football training tracksuit top from the 1983/84 season.

Condition of this original football jersey is 8/10 - Excellent. Light wear (see photos).

Aston Villa has been a leading English club since the 1880s, when its team were pioneers of the modern passing game. This short, quick combination passing style was introduced by Scotsman George Ramsay, who was appointed as the world's first professional football manager in 1886. The club was influential in the sport's move to professionalism in 1885, and it was a Villa director, William McGregor, who founded the world's first Football League in 1888.

George Ramsay's trophy haul of six League Championships and six FA Cups established Aston Villa as the most successful club in England, a position it held from the 1890s until the 1970s. Villa scored 128 goals in season 1930–31, which remains the all-time top-flight record,  however the club began its first decline in the mid-1930s; the 1940s and 1950s were generally a period of mediocrity followed by a steep decline in the 1960s which culminated in a takeover of the club by Doug Ellis in 1968 and Villa's first and only relegation to the third tier of English football in 1969–70.

Villa returned to the elite from the mid-1970s under manager Ron Saunders, who led the club to a seventh top-flight league title in 1980–81. They became only the fourth English club to win the European Cup, in 1981–82, followed by the European Super Cup in 1982.

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