{"id":665369,"date":"2025-12-31T20:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665369\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:16:16","slug":"efl-clubs-3billion-stadium-set-to-include-nightclub-style-suite-among-wild-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665369\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL club’s \u00a33billion stadium set to include nightclub-style suite among wild features"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham City’s future commercial partners may be queuing up for a spot in a suite at their ambitious new stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Blues announced plans for the proposed venue,<\/a> set to cost a staggering \u00a33billion, in November.<\/p>\n

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Blues co-owner Tom Wagner promised a bold vision for the club’s new stadiumCredit: PA<\/p>\n

It will boast a number of eye-catching features, including a chimney-themed facade and a retractable roof.<\/p>\n

According to The Telegraph, another notable inclusion is a proposed ‘chairman’s suite’, which is said to be in the style of a nightclub.<\/p>\n

The report adds<\/a> the suite will be largely used to ‘entertain commercial partners’.<\/p>\n

The Championship outfit<\/a> have welcomed a number of commercial partners since Knighthead Capital took ownership in July 2023.<\/p>\n

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Delta Air Lines, streetwear brand Undefeated and Vertu Motors are just three of the companies to have jumped on board following the ownership change.<\/p>\n

With the Blues making no secret of their desire to return to the Premier League coupled with their plans to move into the new stadium in time for the 2030\/31 campaign, interest in future commercial partnerships is likely to skyrocket.<\/p>\n

The venue, which has been named ‘The Powerhouse Stadium’, is set to boast a 62,000-seat capacity.<\/p>\n

Should there be no other major stadium expansions before Birmingham’s venue opens, the mooted capacity would mean the Blues will have the fourth-largest stadium in English club football.<\/p>\n

Only Manchester United – who have already unveiled plans for a new stadium of their own<\/a> – West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur will have bigger stadiums once Birmingham’s is complete.<\/p>\n

The Blues also may not be the only tenants of their new ground.<\/p>\n

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The club’s new venue will feature several unique featuresCredit: YouTube<\/p>\n

Thanks to their plans for a movable pitch, which would allow NFL matches to be played, Birmingham could share their stadium with a rugby team.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Guardian report claimed the Rugby Football Union (RFU) had been approached about basing a Prem Rugby team in the second city.<\/p>\n

At present, the city’s best-placed rugby team is Birmingham Moseley, who operate in the third tier of English rugby.<\/p>\n

Birmingham play their home fixtures at St Andrew\u2019s and have done so since 1906.<\/p>\n

However, the historic ground has not witnessed Premier League football since the 2010\/11 campaign when the Blues finished 18th in the top flight.<\/p>\n

The club spent the next 13 seasons in the Championship, but never finished above 17th in the last eight of those.<\/p>\n

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Birmingham’s on-field product needs to improve if they’re to return to the Premier League sooner than laterCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Their luck eventually ran out in the 2023\/24 term when a 22nd-place finish saw them relegated to League One.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, the Blues blitzed the third tier to secure an instant return to the Championship,<\/a> where they sit 15th and seven points outside of the play-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham City’s future commercial partners may be queuing up for a spot in a suite at their ambitious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,12905,203061,203062,748,12032,24457,393,8641,4884,2998,188533,16,15,8642],"class_list":{"0":"post-665369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city","10":"tag-birmingham-city-stadium","11":"tag-birmingham-city-stadium-cost","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-efl-championship","14":"tag-efl-news","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-football-news","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-latest","19":"tag-the-powerhouse-stadium","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115816024835580257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}