Maidenhead United finalise deal to buy land for ground at Braywick Park

Vanarama National League club Maidenhead United have announced that they have secured land at Braywick Park on which they plan on building a new stadium.

The Berkshire side has said that it was ‘excited’ to announce that an agreement with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council has been finalised. The deal sees them acquire 3.7 hectares of land at the large open public space to the south of the town centre.

The news is significant for the club and Maidenhead as a town, but has some resonance in global football too. The club's current ground, York Road, is the oldest continuously-used senior association ground in the world by the same club. The Magpies have played out of there since February 1871. That's a staggering 151 years.

United said this about the deal in a statement: "This is an exciting development for the club, its supporters, and the local community. It brings our vision to locate the club within the heart of the community as part of wider integrated sports, recreation, and wellbeing hub at Braywick Park a step closer."

"Our ambition is to deliver an EFL compliant community stadium the town can be proud of, incorporating state of the art facilities which will support the growth and development of our football and wider community wellbeing programmes, whilst securing the long-term sustainability of the Club for current and future generations."

Despite the purchase having gone through, the specific plans to actually build the new stadium are still subject to planning permission. An application is likely to be submitted sometime later this year.

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