Villa Park hosted 55 FA Cup semi-finals, more than any other stadium. The club hosted the League Cup Final in 1980–1981 when Liverpool beat West Ham 2–1 in a replay. In 1999, the stadium hosted the last final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in which Lazio beat Real Mallorca 2–1. During the construction of the new Wembley Stadium between 2001 and 2005, the FA Trophy Final was held at Villa Park. The 2012 Community Shield was held at Villa Park instead of Wembley due to Olympic Games at the stadium. The venue has also hosted two first-class cricket matches. The first
Villa Paus five new villas were built on parts of the park which were partitioned off. During the German occupation of Norway during World War II, the villa was used as the summer residence of Josef Terboven, the German Civilian Administrator of Norway. From 1953 it was owned by the barrister Mathias Dahl-Hansen and his family. In 1997, the villa was sold to the billionaire Petter Stordalen, one of Norway's richest men. In 1999 "Finansavisen" described the villa as Norway's most expensive residence and in 2016 the business magazine "Kapital" estimated the villa to be worth 150 million kroner (ca. 16 million