Villa may be in a higher division – but does that correlate with the number of trophies the two sides have won?
Blues defeated West Bromwich Albion, a team from the Midlands, 3-1 on Friday. This puts them in sixth place heading into the international break, which is quite an accomplishment considering they had generally finished last in the Championship for the previous five years.
The Blues board, however, has decided to sever ties with John Eustace because the team wants to take a different approach and hire a manager who will instill a ‘no fear’ style of play.
Eustace’s successor, who appears to be Wayne Rooney, will have a strong chance of leading the Midlands team to a respectable league finish this year.
They will, however, be under a great deal of pressure to do well given that Eustace’s dismissal wasn’t a widely accepted choice.
much if the Blues are doing well right now, rivals Villa are doing much better, which is not surprising given that Unai Emery is leading them.
Villa finished the previous season in fifth place in the Premier League, and their supporters will be quite appreciative of their current standing given that they were in the second division not so long ago. Villa qualified for Europe at the end of the previous season.
However, if we shift our attention back in time, we compare the trophy cabinets of Birmingham and Villa. 
The two League Cups that Birmingham has won are the most prestigious items in its trophy case.
In reality, they defeated Villa to win their first League Cup, and that victory occurred in the 1962–1963 campaign.
Birmingham took full use of their home advantage in the opening leg of the two-game match to win 3-1.
Villa had a small optimism after that away goal that they may salvage anything, but Gil Merrick’s team emerged victorious in the second game, 0-0.
Ten years after finishing second in the same competition in 2001, they won their second League Cup.
They defeated West Ham United in the semifinals and went on to defeat Arsenal 2-1 in the championship game thanks to a late goal from Obafemi Martins.
In order to go to the top level, Blues had to defeat Norwich City on penalties in order to win the First Division play-offs in 2002. Additionally, they have frequently advanced automatically from the second tier as champions and runners-up.
Sadly, Villa has surpassed Blues in terms of the trophies they have taken home.
The latter have won the FA Cup an equal number of times as well as the premier division title seven times.
Birmingham, on the other hand, has only managed to finish as the FA Cup runners-up.
Perhaps their most noteworthy accomplishments were winning the UEFA Super Cup and the European Champion Clubs’ Cup (the equivalent of the Champions League) in 1981–1982, in addition to winning the League Cup five times and the English Super Cup.
They also took home two Intertoto Cup victories, in 2001 and 2008.
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