Aberdeen FC is set to reveal plans to build a new stadium and training facility, STV News understands.

The Westhill/Kingswells area of the city is understood to have been earmarked for the multi-million pound development.

Further details about the ambitious project are expected to be announced formally in the next 24 hours.

If the development goes ahead it would mean the end of plans to build a new ground at Loirston, near Cove Bay.

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A feasibility study would have to be carried out before the plans were put to the city council for approval.

At the club’s AGM in December, chairman Stewart Milne said the slump in the oil industry and its impact on the city’s property market had made it difficult for the club to sell its Pittodrie stadium.

But at the time the Dons chairman told STV News that building new facilities remained a priority.

The team dropped controversial plans for a stadium in Kingswells in 2003 after opposition from the local community.