What AI thinks Birmingham City's new 62,000 seater stadium will look like as November 20 reveal looms | OneFootball

Blues are set to confirm details of their upcoming new home next week

November 20th 2025 is set to be a momentous day in the 150-year history of Birmingham City, with supporters hotly anticipating the full release of the club's plans of moving into a new 62,000-seater stadium as part of the 'Sports Quarter' complex.

Blues' future plans have skyrocketed ever since Knighthead Capital Management's initial 45.98 percent investment in July 2023, and with the American business firm, fronted by the charismatic and highly-vocal Tom Wagner, now holding a full stake in the West Midlands side, they are set to progress further into reality within the coming days, weeks and months.

At present, Bluenoses continue to pack out the club's historic and spiritual home of St. Andrew's @ Knighthead Park - a stadium which itself has been transformed beyond a lick of paint since Wagner took the Second City club on two years ago, receiving a makeover to the tune of at least £15m after previously being left as a half-building site under the ownership of BSHL, although its capacity of 29,409 is extremely limited due to locational factors.

Whilst Chris Davies was appointed as manager in June 2024 to oversee an on-pitch rebuilding job, one which began in record-breaking fashion in League One last term with the accumulation of 111 points, Wagner has spent lengthy periods of time engaging in discussion with local, national and global figures over the £2-3bn redevelopment of the Birmingham Wheels site into a new hub of sporting innovation in the Second City, with Heatherwick Studio and MANICA recently appointed as the firms responsible for the stadium design.

Wagner hasn't been able to contain his excitement ahead of the reveal on November 20th, stating: “The stadium design, that you’ll see on November 20, is probably the most advanced stadium design I’ve ever seen from a revenue generating perspective."

With that being said, Football League World asked AI-based chatbot, ChatGPT, to predict a stadium design in line with all past revelations leading up to the all-important date.

AI predicts design for Birmingham City's upcoming 62,000-seater stadium

Throughout the past 18 months, ever since talk of a stadium move was first mooted, Wagner has made it clear that a new design will embody the working-class and industrial culture of Birmingham, with the city known as the 'Workshop of the World' as a result.

The Sports Quarter complex will also feature a 15,000 to 20,000 indoor arena, a stadium for Blues' Women's side, required commercial, retail and green space for the East Birmingham community, as well as new and improved training facilities for the club's Men's, Women's and academy sides.

As such, AI has made note of Wagner's industry-themed reference when it comes to the red-brick style exterior, with a modern 'bowl' style design for the interior wrapped around and above.

As seen with the above image concept, it also predicts that the stadium will be visible for miles from dusk onwards, largely down to LED lighting which will put the club's royal blue in the spotlight, as well as projecting Blues' 'globe and ball' crest and historical imagery inside and outside the stadium pre-match.

The folded facade panels are also a nod to the city's industrial past, as well as keeping in line with similar designs produced by MANICA.

AI also predicts that all materials used to generate the hefty regeneration project will be sourced from within the city and the wider West Midlands conurbation, improving sustainability levels, as well as a reusage of specific materials.

The algorithm, therefore, believes that its concept for the upcoming release, which is in approximately one week, fits the bill in terms of what Wagner and Bluenoses are demanding, on top of much improved transport links, with a £1bn West Midlands Metro extension and a £400m boost from the West Midlands Combined Authority, as first revealed by local reporter, Neil Moxley, of Football League World central to such real-life plans.

Birmingham City will hope to match Sports Quarter plans on the pitch

It's no secret that Blues will hope to be in the Premier League by the time the stadium opens, with Wagner setting a revised opening date to match the beginning of the 2030/31 season.

That gives Davies six years to return the club to the top-flight for the first time since May 2011, although he previously rebuffed the theory of expected back-to-back promotions despite Wagner's prior statements.

Birmingham are currently 11th in the Championship after 15 games, and have enjoyed a largely positive run of form in recent games, which included 4-0 wins over Portsmouth and Millwall at St. Andrew's in successive outings.

They are currently just four points outside the play-offs with 31 games remaining, with the former Tottenham Hotspur assistant hoping he has now recaptured a winning formula for the newly-promoted side in what is a wide-open division.

With not many years left at St. Andrew's, supporters are looking to maximise their routine visits, with the upcoming clash against lowly Norwich City already earmarked as the day when all associated with the club will celebrate 150 years of existence.