Aston Villa vs Everton

Aston Villa take on Everton at Villa Park on Wednesday 2 December, a midweek Premier League clash that brings the Toffees up to Birmingham. It's a mid-winter fixture, so it'll be a cold one around the ground, and the 20:00 kick-off means you'll be heading home well after dark.

If you've never spent much time with the club, it's worth knowing where they sit in the English game. Villa is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in the country, founded in Aston in 1874 and playing at Villa Park since 1897. They've won the Football League First Division seven times, the FA Cup seven times and the League Cup five times, and they've picked up the European Cup, the European Super Cup and the Europa League too. They've been a leading English side since the 1880s, and they were early pioneers of the modern passing game introduced by George Ramsay, who was appointed as the world's first professional football manager in 1886.

Villa was also at the forefront of the move to professionalism in 1885, and it was a Villa director, William McGregor, who founded the world's first Football League in 1888. So when you're sitting in the stands, you're watching a club that's been part of the fabric of English football since the very beginning.

Tickets start from £132.25, and the match kicks off at 20:00 on Wednesday 2 December at Villa Park, Trinity Road, Birmingham.