Everything we know about Birmingham City's new 'spaceship' 62,000 seater stadium | OneFootball

A round-up of everything surrounding Birmingham City's new, impressive Sports Quarter stadium

Tom Wagner's ambitions to make Birmingham City one of the biggest clubs in England know no bounds.

Step one of that goal will be to make the Blues a Premier League regular sooner rather than later. The Birmingham owner outlined a back-to-back promotion goal from League One to the top flight last summer, and he has invested heavily in ensuring that their squad is good enough to achieve that.

Then, the focus will be on investing off-field, not only in the football club, but in the city of Birmingham as a whole. Those plans are already in motion, with the hopes of Knighthead's new Sports Quarter looking to be a reality sooner rather than later.

Within that, a brand-new stadium whose capacity would rival the country's elite. The Sun described it as a 'spaceship' stadium, and many Blues fans must still feel, even now, that the ambitions of the club currently are out of this world.

Here's everything we know about the ground in its planning infancy, from where it's planned to be built and when it hopes to open.

Where Tom Wagner plans on building Birmingham City's new stadium

Tom Wagner and his Knighthead company bought Birmingham City in July 2023, and less than a year later, they completed the purchase of a 48-acre former Birmingham Wheels motorsport site.

This site, which is less than a mile away from St Andrew's Stadium, is where the brand-new Sports Quarter will be built.

Birmingham Live reported that this Sports Quarter will not only house the brand-new football stadium, but also a smaller stadium where the women's and academy teams will play, an indoor arena for concerts, a 19-pitch training complex and several restaurants.

When fully completed, the site could be close to 135 acres, which would make it the largest facility of its type in the United Kingdom, overtaking the Etihad Campus in Manchester, which is 80 acres.

The capacity of the new Birmingham City stadium compared to other clubs in England

Early indications suggest that the capacity of the new Birmingham City stadium will be 62,000, which would clock in as the eighth-largest stadium in England.

It would hold 850 fewer seats than the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, and 734 more than Anfield.

Design plans show that the stadium is expected to have a retractable pitch, like the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, so non-sporting events, such as large concerts, can take place there.

Ultimately, the new ground will be a very impressive spectacle, and one which would immediately place Birmingham as one of the bigger clubs in England, so the ambitions to be performing as such on the pitch need to be met, and quickly, if Tom Wagner's prospective open date is to be met.

When the new 62,000 seater Birmingham City stadium is set to be opened

According to an interview with the BBC in July, Tom Wagner said that the "most achievable" timeline would see the new Sports Quarter stadium open in time for the 2030/31 campaign, which begins in less than five years.

The lofty ambitions have clearly caught on with those in charge of making decisions surrounding the building of this new, impressive ground.

Now, it's up to Chris Davies and the rest of the on-field squad to ensure that Birmingham is where they need to be by 2030 to warrant playing in the eighth-largest stadium in the country.

Right now, the club sit in the Championship, with ambitions of making their stay in the second-tier last just one season. Once the Premier League arrives, it's about investing and climbing up to the European level.