UAB took another important step toward building an on-campus stadium with inclusion of the facility on the revised campus map revealed in Thursday's University of Alabama System Board of Trustees meeting.

The horseshoe shaped stadium, which will seat between 25,000 to 30,000, would be located directly north of the current practice fields, according to updated campus plan map. That would place it at Sixth Avenue South and 12th Street.

UAB vice president Richard Margison, who made the presentation to the board members, has been part of a stadium feasibility study along with UAB athletics director Brian Mackin. UAB president Carol Garrison said the work would continue before the university was ready to ask approval to move forward with the stadium.

"I always said that they would be moving toward getting that plan ready toward the end of the year or the beginning of this calendar year," Garrison said. "That's where they are. They just had to work on it to look at it more closely to feel better about the possibilities. They still have to go back and validate and make sure, indeed, that everything they know so far continues to indicate that and then I think we'll be ready to bring it forward."