Maidenhead United Football Club (MUFC) has given a first look of its plans to build a new stadium in Braywick Park.

Jon Adams, the club’s CEO, says that after years of striving to move the club from its historic York Road home, it is setting ‘ambitious’ targets to get up and running.

Much is still up in the air, as the council is yet to approve the disposal of six acres of public land within Braywick, which will release the land for development as the new MUFC grounds.

The new stadium represents a significant upgrade; as well as better all-around facilities, it will have a capacity of 5,000, with 2,000 seats compared to the current 500 at York Road.

This, among other improvements, makes it English Football League (EFL) compliant – important for its growth.




What’s there now, and what will change?

At the moment, there is an area of open green space to the rear of Braywick Leisure Centre, the tennis courts and Forest Bridge School.

This area, south of Vicus Way and the recycling centre, lies between Braywick Park nature reserve and the built-up campus of sports facilities.

MUFC proposes to put its new ground in this spot, to the rear of the athletics track and Padel Maidenhead’s home in the Pavilion.

The main clubhouse building will be to the front of the site and there will be car parking spaces on either side of the ground – though their use will be limited.

What’s next?

Subject to disposal of the land, MUFC’s ambition is to move ‘quickly’ and be within the new ground in ‘two seasons’ time.’

“It’s an ambitious time scale but if you’re not ambitious you don’t move things forward,” said Jon.

As for the York Road ground, it will eventually be developed into something.

“The most important thing to us is that we don’t want to see the identity of York Road and the history of the club completely lost. We want that to be recognised,” said Jon.

He added: “We’ve been we’ve been on this journey for seven or eight years.

“The club has lots of demands and that demand is real and now. Our supporters and teams deserve a better environment.

“It’s been a difficult road. The council have negotiated hard with us and we’ve worked really hard to respond to the challenges that they have set us.

“This deal is absolutely going to be transformational for the football club, enabling us to continue to grow and provide much more opportunity – not only for our first teams, but also our community teams – to play football at a stadium in a fantastic environment.”