OXFORD United’s proposed new stadium at The Triangle will ‘set the benchmark’ for other grounds in the country, the club’s chief executive has said.

United are looking to build a 16,000-capacity venue south of Kidlington Roundabout, with the club’s licence agreement at the Kassam Stadium expiring in 2026.

Earlier this week, the U’s released CGI images and a virtual flythrough of what the proposed new stadium could look like, while information boards are currently on display at the Holiday Inn at Peartree Roundabout.

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United chief executive Tim Williams said: “To be able to bring this to life now, admittedly only in CGI and on boards, and see the images we’re presenting gives a completely different feel to it.

“Because people are working so hard and flat out to deliver what we’re doing here, it makes you really excited to see this.

“What we’re planning to build here is something which isn’t just game-changing for Oxfordshire, but will set the benchmark for what a stadium this size will look like across the entire country.

“You look at this and you think ‘wow, this is actually what this could be like’.

“The important thing is to very much bring to this life. We want that matchday experience and every single supporter who comes into that stadium in a few years’ time just to feel the hard work that’s gone into it.

“This is not just going to be another stadium, it’s going to be in my opinion, if not the best football stadium in the Football League, then an absolutely game-changing stadium for us.”

Asked whether the CGI pictures are set in stone, Williams responded: “Everything is changeable and moveable.

“I would like to think that what the stadium is like right now is what it will look like when it’s finally built, but we have to go through the processes, we have to listen, we have to engage and we have to do what is actually right.

“Will we deliver something that is exactly what it looks like on the board? I would like to think we will do, but we’ve got to be adaptable.”

The next step for the U’s is to submit a planning application to Cherwell District Council, with Williams hopeful that can be ticked off over the course of the next few weeks.

He said: “The planning I believe goes in at the end of the month, so we don’t have actually have an awful lot of time.

“I think then what we’ll go into is a long period of negotiation, but we’ve got to do this in record time in order to break new ground next summer.”