QPR new stadium: Huge boost as club partner with Gemini Sports

QPR have been making significant moves behind the scenes in their quest to secure investment in the club, according to reports.

The West Londoners are hoping to find a partner in order to fund a number of vital projects regarding the club's infrastructure, including the plans to move away from Loftus Road and build a new state-of-the-art stadium.

The end goal of these projects would be to return the side to the Premier League, but considering that Julien Stephan's men finished 15th during their 2025-26 Championship campaign, that ambition seems distant at present.

However, while their goals are yet to be met on the pitch, the R's are said to be making progress off of it, tapping business contacts that may be interested in the opportunity to contribute to the club's future.

According to the Daily Mail, a sales pitch has been sent to potential investors in a new QPR stadium titled “Project Big Ben”, and it is looking to hook in investors by playing on QPR's location in London. According to the sales pitch, Loftus Road is currently worth between £50-64m while the club as a whole has been valued at £120m.

The club's current owners, Ruben Gnanalingam (60%), Amit Bhatia (19%), and Richard Reilly (21%) are not thought to be leaving the R's, and are said to be in the project for the long haul despite the search for outside investment to help fund a new stadium.

Loftus Road currently has a capacity of 18,000, and last season, they had an average attendance of 16,668, so they do operate close to capacity.

QPR new stadium: Learning from past mistakes

Looking to improve infrastructure and the club, as a whole, is a sign that the current owners are learning from the mistakes made under the previous regime. Tony Fernandes, the club's majority shareholder from 2011-2023, admitted to being “exploited” during his time in charge which led to the club effectively crashing and burning.

Although the club enjoyed three years in the Premier League during the Fernandes Era, their model was entirely unsustainable and dependent on the club being a Premier League club. Fernandes spent hundreds of millions on “flash” players to no avail and the club have been stuck in the Championship now since 2013.

During their most recent season in 2025/26, QPR were once again involved in the relegation battle, so pumping money into the stadium might not be the smartest decision with a stint in League One potentially on the horizon.

QPR enter partnership with Gemini Sports

Welcome @gemini_sports ?

QPR will be using the state-of-the-art AI cloud platform to aid topics such as on-field performance and recruitment ?

— QPR FC (@QPR) June 1, 2024

Although not directly related to the club's plans to develop a new stadium, QPR's recent partnership with Gemini Sports is a huge boost for the side, nonetheless and gives their fans a cause for optimism.

Speaking via an official club statement, Gemini Sports founder, Jake Schuster, said: “By taking QPR's data operations from a blank sheet of paper to using cutting-edge AI tech essentially overnight and actually implementing it into their key player personnel and on-field decisions, we're active participants in the reinvention of a historically-significant sporting organisation.”

Since the initial announcement that a new stadium could eventually be in the offing, there have been no further updates, but it is known that work continues behind the scenes.

As it stands, it is yet to be determined whether QPR will run into similar problems as Chelsea, whose owners have ambitions to move from Stamford Bridge yet face issues with limitations over potential new sites in the West London area.

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