A new update has emerged on Birmingham City’s future 62,000-seater Powerhouse stadium, which will serve as the centerpiece of a multibillion-pound reconstruction project in East Birmingham.

According to GiveMeSport, the Championship side is considering joining a future rebrand of the Rugby Union’s PREM Rugby division, with Blues hoping to maximize revenue from their new home.

Birmingham has played at their current stadium, St. Andrew’s @ Knighthead Park, since 1906, but are expected to relocate to the Powerhouse stadium by the summer of 2030, by which time Tom Wagner, the frontman of American ownership group Knighthead Capital Management, hopes to have returned the Second City club to the Premier League for the first time since May 2011.

The Blues’ owner has not been hesitant about supporting current manager Chris Davies in the transfer market in order to accelerate such goals, despite the fact that they are now 14th in the Championship, having accumulated 34 points from their first 26 games.

It is well established that the club’s future home would serve as a community hub in East Birmingham, with various commercial and retail projects planned as part of the Sports Quarter project, which is expected to cost between £2 and £3 billion.

With Tom Brady, an NFL icon and seven-time Super Bowl winner, serving as Blues’ Advisory Board President, NFL games and high-profile concerts are expected to be held in the West Midlands in the future.

Last month, it was suggested that a Birmingham-based rugby union team may potentially play their home games at the Powerhouse, and a step has been made to further those ideas.

A new revelation has emerged regarding Birmingham City’s proposed Powerhouse stadium: the Blues could be groundsharing with a rugby side.

Rugby, regardless of code, is not the most popular sport in Birmingham and the surrounding West Midlands region.

The only Rugby Union team inside the city limits is Birmingham Moseley, which competes in the English National League One and plays their home games at the Billesley Common stadium, a 5,000-seat arena in the suburb of Yardley Wood.

A retractable pitch has been proposed as part of the Powerhouse development, allowing for multi-sport use, while Birmingham is said to be keen to liaise with the Football Association about the possibility of Lionesses games becoming a regular occurrence in this part of the world.

It was then alleged that the RFU (Rugby Football Union) had also been approached about the prospect of a top-tier rugby club locating in the city, and a new update has appeared on this front.

According to GiveMeSport, the Blues are interested in becoming a part of a PREM Rugby reorganization in order to bring in as much money as possible for the team.

According to the publication, inquiries have been conducted into whether the country’s premier rugby union division will become a closed franchise.

Those in charge of the division are understood to be consulting with investment bank Raine and accounting company Deloitte about the prospects, with new funds needed after 27 percent of its commercial rights were previously sold off.

Three clubs in the division have recently declared bankruptcy, including Worcester Warriors and Wasps, both of which are not far from Birmingham.

The latter, of course, were embroiled in long-running feuds with Coventry City after groundsharing at the CBS Arena for a few years, before Blues, ironically, took control of their former Elite Performance and Innovation Centre facilities in Henley-In-Arden after their previous base at Wast Hills – now the Knighthead Performance Centre – was destroyed by fire in March 2023.

Tom Wagner’s past assertions about Birmingham City revenue from the Powerhouse development.

It has been proposed that, while Rugby Union attendance may struggle to reach 60,000 or more, matches would greatly boost Blues revenue streams.

On the day the Powerhouse was unveiled at Digbeth Loc Studios, the aforementioned Wagner predicted how much money the stadium would generate each calendar year.

“I want to say it’s three quarters of a billion pounds per year, my gut tells me that we’ll do better than that because we keep seeing more interest in what we’re doing,” the chairman of the Blues stated.

“There are several types of entertainment venues, acts, teams, and entertainment that want to participate.

However, prior claims predict that the Premiership’s reconfiguration might alter the division by 2028, two years before the Powerhouse’s anticipated completion and inauguration.