Brighton and Hove Albion have launched their plans for Europe’s first purpose-built ladies’s soccer stadium.
The membership say the brand new stadium will “present a everlasting house and id for the ladies’s workforce” in an try to drive long-term fan progress.
Situated at Bennett’s Subject, a web site adjoining to the Amex Stadium – the house of Brighton’s Premier League aspect – it should maintain a minimal capability of 10,000 and shall be linked to the Amex by way of a bridge walkway.
With work below approach on a planning utility, the membership hope to formally open the stadium for the beginning of the 2030-31 season.
“The prospect of a bespoke stadium, constructed completely for girls’s gamers, employees and supporters, is extremely thrilling,” stated the membership’s managing director of ladies’s and women’ soccer, Zoe Johnson.
“It’s a mission that’s the first of its type within the UK and Europe, and one in all solely three on the planet, and can seize the creativeness of stakeholders throughout the ladies’s sport, not simply right here, however globally.”
Brighton say altering rooms, pitch requirements and restoration areas will “help elite feminine gamers”, whereas the matchday expertise shall be “designed to be particularly welcoming for households and first-time attendees”.
There shall be breastfeeding rooms, child altering areas and ‘buggy parks’ for prams, in addition to social areas on the concourse to host occasions and underground automotive parking.
Johnson added the stadium will assist the membership “push ahead our ambitions to compete constantly each domestically within the Ladies’s Tremendous League (WSL), and in addition in European membership competitors”, whereas attracting “key employees and rising a passionate fanbase”.
“We additionally hope the stadium can help academy and growth fixtures, giving extra of our youthful gamers priceless expertise of enjoying in a purpose-built stadium surroundings,” she stated.
Brighton have performed on the Amex every so often however at the moment host the vast majority of their WSL matches at Crawley City’s Broadfield Stadium, about 20 miles away.
