 The first shares in the club were issued towards the end of the 19th century as a result of legislation that was intended to codify the growing numbers of professional teams and players in the Association Football leagues . FA teams were required to distribute shares to investors as a way of facilitating trading among the teams without implicating the FA itself . This trading continued for much of the 20th century until Ellis started buying up many of the shares in the 1960s . He was chairman and substantial shareholder of " Aston Villa F.C. " from 1968 to 1975 and the majority shareholder from 1982 to 2006 . The club were floated on the London Stock Exchange ( LSE ) in 1996 , and the share price fluctuated in the ten years after the flotation . In 2006 it was announced that several consortia and individuals were considering bids for Aston Villa . 
 The first shares in the club <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> issued towards the end of the 19th century as a result of legislation <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>that</mark></a>was intended to codify the growing numbers of professional teams and players in the Association Football leagues . FA teams <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>were</mark></a> required to distribute shares to investors as a way of facilitating trading among the teams without implicating the FA itself . This trading continued for much of the 20th century until Ellis started buying up many of the shares in the 1960s . He was chairman and substantial shareholder of " Aston Villa F.C. " from 1968 to 1975 and the majority shareholder from 1982 to 2006 . The club <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>were</mark></a> floated on the London Stock Exchange ( LSE ) in 1996 , and the share price fluctuated in the ten years after the flotation . In 2006 it was announced that several consortia and individuals <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>were</mark></a> considering bids for Aston Villa . 
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