Manchester United have revealed the location for their planned new 100,000-seater stadium – approximately 350m north west of their existing Old Trafford ground.
Last month, the Premier League club acquired a 25-acre site for the proposed stadium – a site currently partly used by a go-kart track.
Images were unveiled on Thursday for the first time as part of a multi-billion pound draft masterplan for the regeneration project around the wider Old Trafford area, to be known as Trafford Wharfside.
The pictures show no tridents, or canopy – the striking ‘circus tent’ concept – unveiled by minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe in March 2025, but United officials insist that idea has not been ditched.
The plans shown, which would include the removal of the famous Lou Macari’s fish and chip shop at the top of Sir Matt Busby Way, are an outline of what might be built and are not set in stone.
What the actual stadium will look like will be part of the next phase of discussions.
“In the next few weeks we are going to look at the design of the stadium,” said Collette Roche, United’s new stadium development chief executive.
“We hope to have something to share by end of this calendar year or early next.”
Pressed on when the stadium might be ready to open, Roche refused to give an answer.
“We are not going to put a date on it. We want to get it right.”
United added that no decision has been made regarding the future of the existing Old Trafford stadium.
The 150-hectare Trafford Wharfside development would create a neighbourhood with 15,000 new homes and it is claimed it would lead to 48,000 local jobs.
