Barber believes a purpose-built stadium is “essential” to offer “respect and focus” on the ladies’s group.
He hopes it should assist the membership construct a fanbase and capitalise on the expansion of girls’s soccer in England.
“Each membership within the nation, I believe, is taking a look at the way it can combine ladies’s and women’ soccer extra into its mainstream operations,” added Barber.
“Some golf equipment have gotten completely different methods to us however we really feel {that a} ladies’s stadium can be an exquisite factor to have again within the metropolis.
“We predict it could assist us construct an viewers for the ladies’s group that we do not at present have and we see this as a long-term challenge.
“The ladies’s recreation is rising quickly and we see it as a really viable proposition for the longer term.”
Brighton’s plans for the stadium embody a “barely modular” strategy that may permit them to increase the scale of it because the viewers grows.
However Barber admitted it’s “not inconceivable” that each the boys’s and the ladies’s first groups would play recurrently on the American Specific Stadium sooner or later.
“I do not wish to put numbers on it in the mean time as a result of that might be a bit untimely once we’re nonetheless speaking to the stakeholders and native authorities,” he added.
“In the end, in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later, it isn’t inconceivable that we’d unite each our males’s and ladies’s groups again within the AMEX – once we’ve been in a position to maybe modify among the amenities we’ve got to go well with the ladies’s group.
“However within the short-term and medium-term, I believe a purpose-built ladies’s stadium is the suitable means for us to develop our programme.”
