Man Utd appoint group who designed Wembley Stadium and incredible World Cup arena to develop Old Trafford ‘masterplan’

MANCHESTER UNITED person appointed a world-renowned architecture radical to plan a caller stadium for the Old Trafford area.

Foster + Partners volition beryllium tasked with processing a "masterplan" for the club-owned land.

Officials privation to physique a "world-class shot destination and home" for Man Utd fans.

They besides privation to incorporated a wider program comprising mixed-use developments that volition payment the section community, pull caller residents, summation occupation provision, and marque it a vibrant destination for visitors some from the UK and crossed the world.

United person promised to stay engaged with fans, assemblage members, section authorities and the Old Trafford Regeneration Task Force passim the process.

The plan of the existent stadium, which volition beryllium astatine the bosom of the area, volition beryllium completed erstwhile wider plans are determined.

Discussing the caller partnership, Lord Foster, laminitis and enforcement president of Foster + Partners, said: "As a arrogant Mancunian, I americium passionate astir the accidental to rebuild connected Manchester’s large concern heritage, creating a vibrant caller mixed-use community, served by highly sustainable and improved transport links, providing homes and jobs for the section community, each catalysed by a world-class stadium for the world’s astir celebrated shot squad - Manchester United."

Lord Foster is already progressive with the £50million refurbishment of Man Utd's Carrington grooming complex.

Foster + Partners assisted with the improvement of Wembley Stadium successful London, wide regarded arsenic the location of English football.

The institution besides helped to make the Lusail Stadium, which hosted the last of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

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New United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has been hopeless to alteration the club's location into a "Wembley of the North" since taking implicit astatine the commencement of this year.

Collette Roche, the club's main operating officer, said: "We person a wide imaginativeness to alteration and revitalise the club-owned onshore astir Old Trafford and we cognize that Foster + Partners is the champion spouse to assistance america make the plans.

"This is an country of Greater Manchester acceptable for large caller concern truthful that it tin thrive erstwhile more, and we are determined to assistance present those outcomes. 

"We privation this country to go a existent destination, that not lone provides an unbeatable matchday acquisition for our fans, but besides supports different forms of entertainment, leisure, concern and residential facilities surrounding a world-class stadium.

"Lord Foster has unrivalled acquisition successful delivering projects of this standard and ambition."