BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Think “Welcome to Wrexham” only supersized.

Birmingham City — a second-tier English soccer team that has been outside of the Premier League for more than a decade — has announced plans to build one of the biggest stadiums in Europe.

The proposed 62,000-capacity venue is intended to not only propel the team into soccer’s elite but also change the face of Britain’s second largest city, which recently earned notoriety for giant rats and mountains of garbage in a strike by trash collectors.

“In the U.S. we would refer to Birmingham as an NFL city, meaning it’s big enough to have an NFL team, which is a big statement,” Birmingham chairman and American financier Tom Wagner told The Associated Press.

Birmingham has more than one million residents and is 100 miles (1

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