Birmingham City unveil Peaky Blinders teaser video for 62,000-seater stadium plans - It’s caused quite a stir | OneFootball

A teaser for the forthcoming plans for Birmingham City's new stadium has brought about quite a reaction on social media, and not only from Blues fans.

Birmingham City have posted a teaser video for the forthcoming plans for their new 62,000-seater super stadium - and it's caused quite the reaction on social media on all fronts.

On a good run of form in the Championship at the moment following their record-breaking 111-point haul to win the League One title last season, Blues are going places at the moment.

The involvement of new American owners has pushed the club's ambitions sky-high, with a return to the top flight of English football their intended goal.

Central to this ambitious plan is the construction of a new stadium, which will hold 62,000 fans and is going to cost at least £2.5 billion to build. The stadium will feature 12 giant chimneys as a centre-piece, and the club are hoping to have it completed for the start of the 2030-31 season, with the next stage in the process being to release final plans for what it will look like.

Birmingham City stadium teaser video creates quite a stir on social media

The official Birmingham City account on the social media platform X has issued another teaser video for the new stadium, this time featuring the character Arthur Shelby Jr from the hit television series Peaky Blinders, in which he inspects a copy of the plans.

"Tom, you cannot believe what I am looking at. Apparently, it's a football ground. The size of the thing. For the away fans, oh, it's going to be very intimidating. Apparently, on match day, they're going to blow blue smoke out of every chimney. Yeah. It will cover all our territories. And everybody else's. Keep right on."

The teaser has prompted a huge reaction on social media and, unsurprisingly, Birmingham fans are lapping it up.

Though some have used the city's trademark deadpan humour to question why the show's true breakout star wasn't used for it.

But of course, posting something like this on social media was always going to prompt a reaction from the fans of other clubs, and this Aston Villa fan felt embarrassed by just watching it.

While another Villa fan said that the club were making "laughing stocks" of themselves by posting it.

But it wasn't only fans of Birmingham's local rivals who had something to say about the teaser, and this Sheffield United fan had questions over how the Blues might fill a 62,000-capacity stadium.

Whether Birmingham's City owners have a chance of filling their new stadium may come down to being in the Premier League

The involvement of Birmingham City's owners has had a Peaky Blinders theme since they took control of the club in 2023. The company which owns the club is called Shelby Companies Ltd - the family name of the lead characters in the hit BBC drama series - while the show's creator, Steven Knight (himself a Blues fan) has been called in as a consultant over the construction of the new stadium.

And it is true to say that the biggest challenge that the owners of the club will face once the stadium is completed will be filling it. But fans have responded to the new owners already.

Their average attendance this season so far is 27,278, their highest in twenty years, and at that time they were a Premier League club. The last time they had an average home attendance that topped 30,000 was during the 1974-75 season.

Birmingham's highest-ever average attendance for a season came in 1947-48, when an average of 45,731 saw them win the Second Division title, though it is worth remembering that this came in the middle of the post-war attendance boom in English football, when crowds flocked back to matches in unprecedented numbers following the resumption of the Football League and the FA Cup.

Birmingham's record attendance at St. Andrew's does exceed the capacity of the new stadium. In February 1939, 66,844 packed into the stadium for an FA Cup Fifth Round match against Everton, which ended in a 2-2 draw,

Precedent suggests that there is something in the theory that "if you build it, they will come." When West Ham United moved from the Boleyn Ground to The London Stadium in 2015, their average home attendance leapt from 34,910 to 56,885 in one fell swoop, and has since increased to 62,000.

But of course, the big difference between West Ham United in 2015 and Birmingham City in 2025 is that West Ham were a Premier League club at the time, and the pull of the top division will be all-important. This shines a light on why achieving top-flight football is so important for the club, and why the ambitions of their owners were not tempered by getting back int the Championship at the end of last season.