1998–99 Coventry City F.C. season 1998–99 Coventry City F.C. season During the 1998–99 English football season, Coventry City competed in the FA Premier League. Coventry City finished 15th in the Premiership – four places lower than last season – but were never in any real danger of being relegated, despite the loss of key striker Dion Dublin to local rivals Aston Villa. The biggest news of Coventry's season was the announcement of a move to a new 45,000-seat stadium at Foleshill, which was anticipated to be ready by 2002. Manager Gordon Strachan then signed Moroccan international football star Mustapha Hadji, knowing that it would be
Aston Villa F.C. of the best in world football. The new training ground was officially unveiled on 6 May 2007, by then manager Martin O'Neill, then team captain Gareth Barry and 1982 European Cup winning team captain Dennis Mortimer, with the Aston Villa squad moving in for the 2007–08 season. It was announced on 6 August 2014, that Villa Park would appear in the FIFA video game from "FIFA 15" onwards, with all other Premier League stadiums also fully licensed from this game onwards. The first shares in the club were issued towards the end of the 19th century as a result of