Brighton are constructing a brand new stadium only for the ladies’s workforce with the membership’s deputy chairman Paul Barber saying the workforce deserve “respect and focus”.
The Women’s Super League membership, who at present sit fifth within the prime flight, submitted plans in October 2023 for a brand new stadium which have been accepted by the council a number of weeks later.
However the place will or not it’s constructed and when will or not it’s accomplished? This is all you should know.
Brighton: All you should find out about WSL membership’s new stadium
Brighton’s ladies’s workforce often play on the Amex Stadium, which is ranked thirty first on FourFourTwo’s best stadium list, however the lion share of their fixtures are competed at Crawley’s Broadfield Stadium.
The brand new venue goals to present the ladies’s aspect their very own stadium as a part of the membership’s funding within the workforce.
The membership have slowly been placing an increasing number of cash into the ladies’s workforce, notably this season with enormous marquee signings like Fran Kirby.
Barber has stated the membership have a web site in thoughts for the brand new construct however didn’t affirm the situation.
He spoke to the BBC about when constructing might be accomplished: “[The 2026/27 season] isn’t completely out of the query. It relies upon, over the subsequent few months, how issues go.
“It’s most likely extra life like [to aim for the] 2027-28 season, however once more, we will likely be working very onerous to ship the answer as rapidly as we will. It’s going to largely rely upon the best way we assemble the stadium and the way rapidly we will transfer by way of planning consents. There may be loads of work to do and we’re excited to be concerned in it. I feel it will likely be an enormous step for girls and ladies soccer in our metropolis.”
The deputy chairman additionally didn’t rule out the ladies sharing the Amex Stadium full-time with the lads’s workforce in future. FourFourTwo consider a brand new stadium will see a rise in crowd numbers for the ladies’s workforce.
Brighton have seen an uptick in kind this season. They’re solely two factors behind their complete haul within the WSL final season after simply 10 video games.
The Seagulls are 4 factors outdoors of the highest three, which is a Girls’s Champions League qualifying spot.
