The first purely electrical football stadium in Great Britain

August 26, 2025

The new home site of Oxford United Football Club will be the first purely electrical football stadium in the UK.

As the first reineal stadium in the UK, it will work entirely on renewable energies and eliminate the need for carbon base. 3,500 square meters of roof mounted photovoltaic panels will help reduce the effects on the national network during the game days, and an air-round heat pump and an energy-efficient building weaving are reduced by 80 percent of CO2 emissions per year compared to gas boilers.

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Teams from MultiDisciplinary Built Environment Consultancy Ridge and partners worked together with AFL Architects (Lead Architects), Mott Macdonald (Engineering Services) and Fabrik (Landscape Design) to develop the program.

The mixed user program, which includes a new club business and a ticket office, an event space of 1,000 people, a sports bar, a restaurant, a health clinic and a hotel with 180 rooms, is a net, bees, ponds, rainy gardens and wildflower meadows in the local biological diversity through landscape building systems, trees, green, roofs Achieve biodiversity.

Giles Brockbank, planning partner at Ridge, said: “This is an important opportunity for Oxford United, and for Ridge and our committed team, who have contributed significantly to get to the club. This project is more than a stadium. It is a unique opportunity to secure the future of Oxford's only professional club and the social advantages for Oxford in the same To secure communities.

The plans have already been praised for their inclusive and accessible measures by the former Paralympic Baroness Gray-Thompson DBE. There is space for 130 wheelchairs in the stadium, extended and increased wheelchair vehicles, wheelchair-friendly hubs at all entrance gates, walk-free access to all hospitality areas and a large number of accessible parking books (80 on match days).

The project was granted the building permit by the Cherwell District Council, and the application is now being transferred to the Foreign Minister for Minister of Housing, Communities and Local Government for examination.

Image: A CGI that shows the proposed exterior of the new stadium. Image credit: Oxford United Football Club

Article written by Ella Tanzley | Published on August 26, 2025

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