The semi-professional club, born out of the anti-Glazer movement at United five years ago, has been given the amber light by Manchester City Council to press ahead with their new home.
They hope to have moved in to their new base by 2013 but the timescale depends on the length of the planning and building process.
FC United hope to build the community stadium, with a capacity of 5,000, on council land off Ten Acres Lane, and the design is expected to include a renovation of an existing sports centre and artificial football pitches.
It is also hoped to include community facilities which will be in use seven days a week but the nature of those facilities would only be determined after the club talks to residents. The stadium would incorporate facilities aimed at encouraging local youngsters to take part in sports, and could offer educational, social and even health services.
The club was today starting consultation with residents and the outline plans will go before the council next month.
Depending on the length of the planning process, FC hope to move into their new home in 2012 or 2013. The club has been sharing Bury's Gigg Lane ground for the first five seasons of their existence but the £3,000-a-match rental has drained their resources and the search for their own stadium has been underway since its formation in the summer of 2005.
The plan is intended to form part of the regeneration of east Manchester, which also includes the proposed £1billion redevelopment of Manchester City's stadium and surrounds at Eastlands.
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Sounds the perfect place. Hope the residents are not to hostile to the idea.....cant wait to watch our club on our ground.
mmmm I sincerely hope that no council money is spent on this folly of a club. Great result for them again last night :)
A club who have yet to play a home game in Manchester formed by a disgruntled band of supporters of a club from outside Manchester ????? The City council should concentrate their efforts on the proposed development of land around the Sport City area.
FC UTD of Bury in Manchester No Thanks !!! Manchester has only had one real club since Man Yoo moved out in the 20"s
from the car park of Sport City.
Superb news!!!
Sounds good for Fc united, still can not get my head around the fact these united suporters are no longer united fans. A lost generation of reds unfortunatley
LUHG
How very apt the ground of FC United is going to be in Newton Heath.
It couldn't be anywhere else really, could it ? ;-}
The gossip network surrounding the location has been circulation for some time and we've been waiting all season for this to be announced. It's great the info is finally in the public domain. The Newton Heath community will love FC United and I'll be walking to games it 2-3 years.
Maybe you F.C Nited of(Bury)Manchester can buy them sickly Norwich scarves off these Nited fans that think Newton Heath is near Hamstead!
Green and Gold until you fold!
George. Pathetic.
Sounds good for Fc united, still can not get my head around the fact these united suporters are no longer united fans. A lost generation of reds unfortunatley LUHG
salfordian red canada, canada
They are still United fans. I know a few who go FC United games but still go big United aways, where no money goes in Glazers pocket.
dave stretton & George -
Get a grip! What a pair of bitters!! If it wasn't for Man Utd, Manchester would be unheard of, football wise, outside of the UK.
Your joke as a club has lumbered our city with ridicule for nearly 40 years. Concentrate on your own club instead of childish bitter comments about other clubs!!
Flymo - totally agreed it is pathetic,you should all stay in Bury or Trafford & leave Manchester well alone.
George Kane, Stretford
25/03/2010 at 12:46
Let me get this right, you support the only Manchester club (PMSL) which you deludedly believe to be city but you aso live in Trafford which according to you is not part of Manchester. So does that not make you a hypocrite for supporting a Manchester club and not even living in it. Come on George, you make yourself look ridiculous with your constant quibbling over boundary changes. Let's talk football instead because isn't that why we all follow our respective teams. I am more than happy to discuss trophies with you but as you've not actually won any for yonks then it would be like trying to talk to Bucks Fizz about their last number one. When all is said and done we could have our stadium on planet mars, it won't change the fact you've won nothing for decades now will it. Keep us posted on how your beloved city council gets on with your newly proposed shopping mecca. Whilst we're planning trips around Europe you can book a table at Bella Pasta, let's face it that's the closest you'll get to rubbing shoulders with the European elite.
mmmm... you can tell the bitters got beat last night in their Beswick council house and now even more bitter cause FC United are building their OWN ground.Top four your having a laugh
Where will the pub be built for the pub-team?
Red or Dead
I'm a blue in Bandit Country,never said i lived in Manchester.
Not a glory hunter like most Man Yoo - I'm proud to be Mancunian & proud to be a Blue.
It's not all about winning trophies !! I would n't change my team for all the debt in Trafford !
I love City, a love that's been stretched over the years but a love that will never die.
A loyalty that most Man Yoo would not be able to comprehend.
Am glad to see that Ten Acres will be in for a refurb. My only concern is the fact you could possible have three football stadiums all within a three mile radius - Man City, the proposed FC Utd ground and the proposed Oldham ground! Can't see how the logisitics of this will work.
Great news that the facilities at Ten Acres are in for a refurb. What conerns me is the possibility of having 3 football grounds within approx a three mile radius - Man City, the proposed new FC Utd ground and the proposed Oldham ground, cant see how the logistics will work and it will have a massive impact on the area.
QUOTE "I know a few who go FC United games but still go big United aways, where no money goes in Glazers pocket.
Glazer out..., Manchester
Like me on Saturday after Fc's away game at Guisely I'll be going on to the Reebok for the 5.30pm Bolton v United game and I can get there on time thanks to the early kick off at Guisely which is the only bonus from having a non-league game start at 12.00 in Yorkshire.
Ooops apologies for the double comment, just set up my account. hh and football mum are one in the same person. I initially thought my original post wouldn't appear so i posted again.
A loyalty that most Man Yoo would not be able to comprehend.
George Kane, Stretford
25/03/2010 at 15:35
Give me a break, you know nothng about me or United fans. You are beyond pathetic. You are on the one hand slating United for being a global success with support all over the globe (but not actually in it's own home town, oh, ok then...) yet on the other you are elated that your cash donor is trying to make you just the same as us, i.e MASSIVE. Make your mind up, because as far as I can see you're just a bunch of hypocrites obsessed with trying to get one over on United. You do that with trophies and on my last count you are way behind, billions in the bank or not. I would rather be a leper than support a club that seems to nourish hatred, pettiness and bitterness in it's supporters. I seriously cannot imagine living my life the way you do, it is a horrible existence.
We might be in debt but we can service it and when you compare what we have done with less money to what you have done with a large amount then it's clear to see again who comes out on top. With the bad karma you lot emit it is no wonder you never have any luck with anything, you don't deserve it. Go and sing your munich song now George, you know you want to.
George Kane - is it any wonder why you and your fellow supporters of your embarrassing football club are known as bitters?
Sad, sad man. Have you ever kissed a girl?
why is all this nostagic garbage being trotted out yet again about FC united returning "home" to newton heath ? it is rarely (if ever ) mentioned that city actually began life in west gorton ,so actually returned home(give or take a mile) seven years ago ! but you know what- nobody really gives a monkeys . i realise that due to the current laughable & pathetic anti- glazer protests, the name of newton heath brings a tear to the eye of even the most bitter & twisted hard faced rags fan - but please leave the nostalgia where it should be - in the past - united left east manchester for old trafford 100 years ago GET OVER IT !
Not a glory hunter like most Man Yoo - I'm proud to be Mancunian & proud to be a Blue. It's not all about winning trophies !! I would n't change my team for all the debt in Trafford ! I love City, a love that's been stretched over the years but a love that will never die. A loyalty that most Man Yoo would not be able to comprehend.
George Kane, Stretford
25/03/2010 at 15:35
Such an idiotic comment. Like this comedy argument that all City fans have about the geographical location of Old Trafford (which Red or Dead just put you in your place about before), you berties all seem to think that because you support a small club who have won nowt since records began you have more passion about you club?!! Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
George Kane, Stretford
wrong again George, you are not Mancunian, as you said you don't live in Manchester or come from there you are Stretfordian, myself I am Salfordian like I tell all the people I meet on the many Euro aways following the Manchester Team that puts Manchester on the map. I bet you even think Dennis Law put us down in 1974, now wonder off and get some confussion tablets, oh and brush up on your maths as well as your geography, Old Trafford is 100 years old so when did we move there 19th Feb 1910 losing to a team from Liverpool 4-3 just like your lot last night, did you go at £10 a ticket 7000 on sale.
lets get it right.
the real manchester united is full of their own supporters week in week out.
if you support some none league club you are not rebelling against mufc, you are a supporter of the club whose games you attend.
manchester united dont need you and dont want you. they have there own support.
simply red
ps. for the league they are in fc united are posibly the most expensive side to watch in the country.