Aston Villa Women 2022/23

[Villa Lew]

Villa ladies have got Chelsea at home in the league on 2nd April, so with the men, I'm going for an April treble for us over The Pensioners!

[exigo]

I hope they will set a kick off time that doesn’t clash with the men’s fixture. I’d really like to take in both games if possible.

Same here. Early kick-off at VP for the men's game, so would be great to head over to Bescot for a 4.30ish kick off on the Saturday.

[Lastfootstamper]

According to the BBC, who I assume will be broadcasting them, both games will be played on the Sunday.

[amfy]

It would be madness - loads of us heading from VP to The Bescott after the men’s game? I know it’s a 2 hour gap & the capacity at The Bescott isn’t massive, but it just feels quite a hassle.
It’s bad enough with just people going home in that direction!
Also - watching 2 games in a row doesn’t really appeal to me if I’m honest.
Sunday for me.

[Pat Mustard]

It's definitely on the Sunday, just the question of where.  You'd hope that it can be held at Villa Park and we can get a record crowd in for it, but I wonder whether the FA and or Chelsea wouldn't agree to that with us already having the advantage of playing the game at home.

[amfy]

If it’s Sunday, the Bescott market apparently puts it right back to 6pm, so I hope it is Villa Park. I don’t really see how they can object, we have already used it for home games this season and other women’s teams have had big crowds at their traditional (men’s) grounds too.

[PeterWithesShin]

Last year the semis were played on different days. The BBC seem to show them live. I reckon we'll play it at Bescott as unless the club an amazing job pushing the game I doubt there'll be much over 5k watch it wherever it is.

[Lastfootstamper]

What might sway opinions is whether we can sell out for the game at VP this weekend against Leicester. There's bugger-all left pitchside in C, but still plenty of availability, over 700, in B.

I'm pencilled in for not going, as I'm meant to be working in London. But if circumstances allow, I'll be doing my utmost to sneak back for it. I've not yet watched the women at VP.

[Pat Mustard]

When they've played at Villa Park in the last 12 months the crowds have been in the 8-9k range, so if they push this properly (which they should given it is effectively the biggest match in the women's team history) then I don't see why they couldn't get 15k in for this one.  This is also one to maybe give a bit back to the community and have free tickets for school parties etc - it's how the likes of Arsenal and Spurs have managed to get crowds approaching 50k in for some of their games.

[Dave P]

We should have it at Villa Park with women's season tickets holders free and men's season ticket holders half price.  Lets get 30k+ there.  Away end tickets £45 no concessions.

[Dave P]

Plus we can extend our record of FA Cup semi finals being held at VP (wink)

[Lastfootstamper]

Half price? It's only a tenner anyway, fiver for kids.

[Dave P]

And we still only get 8k ish. I was thinking of ways to really fill it

[amfy]

It’s a shame it’s on a weekend that the men are also at home. If the men’s team were away, or it was during the international break I reckon more would be up for it.

[exigo]

It's showing as 2pm Sunday at Walsall on the official site. But I haven't seen that announced anywhere.