Brighton are constructing a brand new stadium only for the ladies’s crew with the membership’s deputy chairman Paul Barber saying the crew deserve “respect and focus”.
The Ladies’s Tremendous League membership, who presently sit fifth within the prime flight, submitted plans in October 2023 for a brand new stadium which have been permitted by the council a number of weeks later.
However the place will it’s constructed and when will it’s accomplished? Here is all you should know.
Brighton: All you should find out about WSL membership’s new stadium
The ladies’s crew play at Broadfield Stadium (Picture credit score: Chris Vaughan/Getty Photographs)
Brighton’s girls’s crew sometimes play on the Amex Stadium, which is ranked thirty first on FourFourTwo’s greatest stadium listing, however the lion share of their fixtures are competed at Crawley’s Broadfield Stadium.
The brand new venue goals to offer the ladies’s aspect their very own stadium as a part of the membership’s funding within the crew.
Fran Kirby moved to Brighton in the summertime of 2024 (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
The membership have slowly been placing increasingly more cash into the ladies’s crew, notably this season with enormous marquee signings like Fran Kirby.
Barber has mentioned 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 may very well be accomplished: “[The 2026/27 season] is just not completely out of the query. It relies upon, over the following few months, how issues go.
“It’s most likely extra practical [to aim for the] 2027-28 season, however once more, we shall be working very exhausting to ship the answer as shortly as we will. It is going to largely rely upon the best way we assemble the stadium and the way shortly 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 believe will probably be an enormous step for ladies 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 crew in future. FourFourTwo consider a brand new stadium will see a rise in crowd numbers for the ladies’s crew.
Brighton have seen an uptick in type this season. They’re solely two factors behind their whole haul within the WSL final season after simply 10 video games.
The Seagulls are 4 factors exterior of the highest three, which is a Ladies’s Champions League qualifying spot.
