Birmingham City unveiled plans to build a 62,000-seat stadium that the second-tier club envisions as its home for not only Premier League matches but also a destination for the biggest music stars and the NFL.

The English soccer team, which counts NFL great Tom Brady as a minority shareholder and U.S. financier Tom Wagner as chairman, said the venue would be the ''beating heart'' of Birmingham as the centerpiece of a project costing at least 2.5 billion pounds (USD 3.2 billion).

The proposed Birmingham City Powerhouse Stadium, featuring 12 chimney towers, would be built in Bordesley Park, East Birmingham, in time for the 2030-31 season.

''Together we are putting the city and the club on trajectory towards greatness,'' Wagner said at the unveiling at Digbeth Loc Studios in Birmingham.

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