Brighton & Hove Albion on Tuesday unveiled plans to construct the primary purpose-built ladies’s soccer stadium in Europe, with not less than 10,000 seats and scheduled to open by the 2030-31 season.
Work has begun on a planning utility for the proposed stadium, described by the membership as “constructed for her”, at Bennett’s Discipline subsequent to the boys’s American Categorical Stadium. Brighton, whose groups are at the moment sixth within the Premier League and Girls’s Tremendous League respectively, stated the positioning was acquired in 2025 and would permit shared operations and amenities on males’s and girls’s matchdays.
As soon as accomplished, the bottom could be one in every of solely three devoted ladies’s soccer stadiums globally, following two NWSL membership grounds – Kansas Metropolis Present’s CPKC Stadium and Denver Summit’s deliberate venue. The CPKC Stadium opened in 2024 as the primary on this planet to be purpose-built for an expert ladies’s soccer crew.
“It should assist us push ahead our ambitions to compete each domestically within the Girls’s Tremendous League, and in addition in European membership competitors, whereas serving to to draw key employees and develop a passionate fan base,” Brighton Girls’s Managing Director Zoe Johnson stated in a press release. “We additionally hope the stadium can assist academy and growth fixtures, giving extra of our youthful gamers worthwhile expertise of enjoying in a purpose-built stadium setting.”
The membership stated the stadium could be designed across the particular wants of feminine athletes, together with pitch requirements, altering rooms and restoration amenities, fairly than adapting venues traditionally constructed for the boys’s recreation. “Our new ladies’s stadium is a highly effective assertion of our ambitions and will probably be integral to driving additional momentum for the expansion of girls’s and women’ soccer, not simply within the UK however throughout the world,” Brighton Chief Govt and Deputy Chairman Paul Barber stated.
“With a capability aligned to Girls’s Tremendous League laws, the stadium displays our clear perception in ‘proper sizing’ the stadium to develop the fan base sustainably.” A small however rising variety of Girls’s Tremendous League golf equipment now play their dwelling fixtures at their males’s first-team stadiums, reflecting rising attendances and larger institutional backing.
Chelsea introduced final week that they might play all their dwelling video games at Stamford Bridge from subsequent season, becoming a member of the likes of Arsenal, Aston Villa and Leicester Metropolis who maintain their ladies’s dwelling league video games on the males’s first-team floor. Arsenal are probably the most established instance, staging each WSL dwelling match on the 60,000-seat Emirates Stadium following document crowds and sustained demand.
Everton have adopted go well with, shifting completely into Goodison Park after the boys’s facet relocated to the brand new Hill Dickinson Stadium, giving the ladies’s crew one in every of English soccer’s most historic grounds. Aston Villa and Leicester Metropolis have additionally dedicated to internet hosting all league video games at Villa Park and the King Energy Stadium respectively.
Most different WSL golf equipment break up ladies’s fixtures between smaller devoted venues and occasional video games at their major grounds.
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