Fresh details on new Birmingham City stadium emerge - Blues fans will have a lot to be excited about | OneFootball

New details have emerged of what Birmingham City's new 62,000-capacity stadium will look like, and they're connected to the city's industrial past.

New plans have been revealed concerning Birmingham City's ambitious new stadium project, and they will lean on the city's industrial past for inspiration.

On the pitch, things haven't been quite going according to plan so far this season for Birmingham City. Last year's League One champions had targeted a second successive promotion into the Premier League, but they've already found out how ambitious a plan this is, with a 1-0 defeat at Bristol City leaving them languishing in 15th place in the table with a quarter of the season now played.

But the ambition currently coursing through Birmingham doesn't end with what happens on the pitch. The club confirmed that they were looking to move the club on from their St Andrew's home a while ago, and as the plans for this new stadium have started to crystallise, they've given fans hope that no matter what the present may hold for them on the pitch, the future remains exciting.

Birmingham City's new stadium design will lean on the city's industrial heritage

In the Daily Mail this morning, journalist Mike Keegan has reported on the plans for the new stadium, and these plans contain many reasons for Birmingham supporters to be excited. Club owner Tom Wagner has already stated that the new stadium will be "something internationally special."

Keegan reports that the new stadium will have a capacity of 62,000 - comfortably more than double that of St Andrew's - and that it will lean heavily on the city's industrial past for its design inspiration. Heatherwick Studios, a London-based architects firm, have been chosen for the work, and they have teamed up with the creator of the hit TV series Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight.

The report states that chimneys will form a central part of the design of the new stadium, pointing out that, "at one point the tallest chimney in the world was located in Smethwick, with the Adams' Soap Works Chimney taking the record between 1835 and 1842, standing at an imposing 312 feet".

Connecting Birmingham CIty with the City of Birmingham will be important to Knighthead's ambitious plans

Knighthead's plans for Birmingham City's new stadium are nothing if not ambitious. A 62,000-capacity ground would be the fifth-biggest in England, with only Wembley, Old Trafford, the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and the London Stadium, and it would be bigger than even the redeveloped Anfield and The Emirates Stadium.

The estimated cost of £3 billion is three times the £1 billion that The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium cost to build, and it's widely admired as one of the most advanced new-build stadiums in Europe.

But it is a sign of the owners' understanding of Birmingham and the history of the city itself which may impress the club's supporters the most. Building this identity could be crucial to the future growth of the club, and Birmingham are going to have to more than double their attendances if they're to fill their new home. Cementing that link between Birmingham City and the City of Birmingham could be crucial.

The club plan to be in their new stadium by 2030, and there seems little doubt that it will need Premier League football in order to support it. This isn't quite going according to plan at the moment, but with a further four years to achieve that ambition, there is plenty of time. Birmingham are looking at a very different future, following years during which they were something of an afterthought, even in the football culture of their home city.