{"id":244567,"date":"2026-05-21T19:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/thousands-of-villa-fans-line-streets-to-celebrate-europa-le\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:21:56","slug":"thousands-of-villa-fans-line-streets-to-celebrate-europa-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/thousands-of-villa-fans-line-streets-to-celebrate-europa-le\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Villa fans line streets to celebrate Europa Le\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"Article content\" id=\"article-content\">\n<p>Aston Villa fans turned out in their thousands on Thursday to celebrate the English side&#8217;s Europa League final triumph &#8211; their first silverware in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters decked out in the club&#8217;s claret and blue colours waved flags and let off flares as they lined the streets of Birmingham to watch their heroes parade the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>They cheered and chanted as the players, medals hanging around their necks, made their way by open-top bus from the club&#8217;s ground to Centenary Square in the city centre, where an estimated 23,000 fans had gathered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just over the moon, it means everything,&#8221; one fan told the BBC, while another described the victory on Wednesday as &#8220;the best night of my life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-segment--embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THESE MOMENTS WITH YOU, VILLANS \ud83d\ude0d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jhbta7p7hl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jhbta7p7hl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/2057512563093676145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 21, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Unai Emery&#8217;s side ended their trophy drought with a stylish 3-0 win against Freiburg in Istanbul, thanks to goals from Youri Tielemans, Emiliano Buendia and Morgan Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>Villa&#8217;s first trophy since the 1996 League Cup was also their first major European prize in 44 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve been through so much pain, so much disappointment, but this group of players have provided so much satisfaction the last couple of years,&#8221; said captain John McGinn, addressing fans using a microphone.<\/p>\n<p>Emery dedicated the trophy to the club&#8217;s fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our heart is your heart, your heart is our heart. We are together \u2013- up the Villa,&#8221; said the Spaniard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/epl\/news\/3543959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa fans turned out in their thousands on Thursday to celebrate the English side&#8217;s Europa League final triumph &#8211; their first silverware in 30 years. Supporters decked out in the club&#8217;s claret and blue colours waved flags and let off flares as they lined the streets of Birmingham to watch their heroes parade the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}