Man Utd want to move into new 100,000-seater, £2bn stadium by 2030-31 season

Manchester United have revealed eye-catching plans to replace Old Trafford with a new 100,000-seater stadium – and hope to move in by the start of the 2030-31 season.

The Premier League club had been examining whether to redevelop their current ground or build a new home in the same area and announced on Tuesday they had chosen the second option.

United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe said this marked “the start of an incredibly exciting journey to the delivery of what will be the world’s greatest football stadium, at the centre of a regenerated Old Trafford”.

Architects Foster + Partners unveiled concept images of how the venue and surrounding area could look and revealed the ground would be made out of 160 pre-fabricated sections that would halve the build time to five years.

Asked if United were therefore targeting the 2030-31 campaign to move into the new stadium, chief executive Omar Berrada said: “Yes.”

Berrada confirmed the stadium, along with club areas like fan zones and a megastore, would cost around £2billion.

“We won’t be asking for taxpayer money to fund the stadium,” he said. “But, at the same time, the stadium, the new build in isolation does not make sense if there’s not an investment in the wider generation project.”

Berrada says “all the options are open” at this stage, including stadium naming rights, as United look at how to finance the project.

“It’s still quite early and also as a PLC we can’t speculate too much about the funding,” he said.

“But what I would say is the new stadium as the centrepiece of the wider regeneration project is a very attractive investment opportunity, so we’re quite confident and we’ll be able to find a way to finance the stadium.”

Revealing plans for a £2bn new home was quite