Villa Park Dropped As 2012 Venue
Villa Park, home of Aston Villa Football Club in Birmingham, will no longer be used as one of London 2012’s venues for the preliminary rounds in the Olympic football tournament.
The club has confirmed that it is considering plans for major construction work at Villa Park over the next few years. Whilst these plans are being developed, the club is unable to commit fully to hosting matches as part of the London 2012 Olympic football competition.
The London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has been working with its selected football venues over the past eight months progressing and confirming plans across the tournament, and needed firm commitments from all the host stadia.
It has been agreed with Aston Villa that because they are unable to make firm commitments to the project, the best course of action is for Villa Park to be withdrawn as an Olympic venue.
LOCOG has stated that it is looking at a number of options for replacing Villa Park.
