Aston Villa boss Unai Emery says the club will embrace European football next season.
Villa haven't featured in Europe since 2010.
Ahead of today's Black Country derby, Emery said: For me, the best practice is playing matches. I like to face the challenge. If we are playing in more competitions the better (it is).
It is very important to build on the training ground our structure, tactically and our mentality. But we are going to show everyone our progress by playing matches. That is the way.
We want to improve every day and get ahead with big and difficult challenges. This is the first step. We are playing to add in a future competition for us and everyone."