Where Birmingham City's new 62,000 seater stadium will rank in Europe's biggest grounds | OneFootball

Birmingham City are hoping to move into their new 62,000 seater stadium by 2030

Birmingham City are planning to build a new 62,000-seater stadium to replace St. Andrew’s amid their grand Premier League ambitions.

Earlier this summer, the club outlined their plans for the development, which will also reportedly include a new training complex that consists of 19 pitches.

It is hoped that the entire project can be completed by 2030, with the Blues looking to build one of the biggest stadiums in English football.

But first their focus must turn to the Championship, having been promoted from League One last season with 111 points under Chris Davies.

Here see we how Birmingham’s new stadium will compare to some of the biggest stadiums in European football…

The biggest stadiums in European football

According to figures taken from Stadium Guide, the biggest stadium in European football is Camp Nou in Barcelona, which can hold a capacity of 99,354.

Birmingham’s stadium will rank much further down than that, putting it 23rd on the list of grounds in European football.

It will slot in right behind the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which currently have 62,303 supporters.

It will also rank just above the VELTINS-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, which is the home of 2. Bundesliga side Schalke.

Other stadiums that it will be greater in size than are the likes of Parkhead, which houses Celtic, and the Estadio Benito Villarmarin, which is where La Liga club Real Betis play.

There are a number of other stadiums in European football which also hit the 60,000-seater mark but aren’t quite as big as Birmingham’s proposed 62,000-seater.

The Mercedes-Benz-Arena, the home of Stuttgart, Arsenal’s stadium the Emirates, the Stadio San Paolo of Napoli and West Ham’s London Stadium are all in between 60 and 62,000, with the Estadio La Cartuja de Sevilla also in this range.

However, it will be smaller than the homes of Benfica (64,400), Marseille (67,000) and the Puskas Arena (67,155), which is the home of the Hungary national team.

The biggest stadiums in the Championship

The proposed 62,000-seater stadium would make it the biggest among the current grounds in the Championship.

According to figures from Transfermarkt, the biggest stadium in the second division at the moment is Hillsborough, which can house roughly 39,800 people.

That pales in comparison to the potential capacity that Birmingham will have if their new build is successful.

The Riverside, Pride Park, Bramall Lane and the CBS Arena complete the top five for the 2025/26 Championship season.

Meanwhile, stadiums like the Kassam Stadium, which is the home of Oxford United, can house 12,500, although a new stadium is also in the works there too.

Wrexham’s Racecourse Ground is only marginally bigger, with the Red Dragons able to host 12,600 going into the new campaign, but there are again plans to develop the stadium.

QPR’s Loftus Road, The Den at Millwall and Fratton Park, the home of Portsmouth, are the next smallest grounds in the Championship.

It would take adding up The Den, Loftus Road, the Racecourse Ground and the Kassam Stadium to get a ground only slightly bigger than what the new Birmingham stadium will be.