The Red Devils have confirmed plans to leave their home of 115 years and move into what will be the biggest football stadium in the UK.

United's new stadium will be constructed on club-owned land adjacent to Old Trafford and architect Lord Norman Foster says it will take five years to build.

The club's co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe said: "Wembley, the O2 Arena, the Olympic Village - nothing of the scale of what we've seen in London in the north. This will be the first of this scale in the north of England.

"The north of England has won 10 Champions League medals, London has two. But London has Wembley, Twickenham, Wimbledon and the Olympic Village.

"The north of England deserves a stadium where England can play football, where we can hold the Champions League final, and one befitting of Man Utd's stature.

"If the government really gets behind this scheme, we will build an iconic football stadium."

Architects say that the new stadium would feature an umbrella design and a public plaza that is "twice the size of Trafalgar Square".

The design will also feature three masts described as "the trident", which will be 200 metres high and visible from 25 miles away.

Foster said: "This has to be one of the most exciting projects in the world today.

"It starts with making something which is so intense, it brings you close to the pitch, acoustically it cultivates the roar.

"Moving away from the stadium, it's not a fortress surrounded by a sea of cars, it's open. It's contained by an umbrella which harvests solar energy, rain water but is protected. It encloses arguably the largest public space in the world.

"There's the three masts, the trident. Visible from 40km away, 200m high. This becomes a global destination.

"Normally a stadium will take 10 years to build, we take five."