On 18 August 2013, at already 31, Villa played his first game as a professional, starting in a 1–2 league home loss against SD Eibar.El Jaén muere en la orilla (Jaén die on the shore); Marca, 18 August 2013 (in Spanish) He appeared in 15 matches as the team dropped back to the third tier, and continued playing and scoring regularly for them at that level. He had his best yield of 12 goals in 2016–17 – including a hat-trick on 27 November in a 4–2 home win over Atlético Sanluqueño CF– though the club fell into the fourth division.
