The winning design for Forest Green Rovers’ proposed new stadium will be revealed on Thursday afternoon.

Zaha Hadid Architects, responsible for the 2012 London Olympic Aquatic Centre, and Glenn Howells Architects, which designed Gloucester Services on the M5, were selected from nine shortlisted candidates.

Forest Green chairman and Ecotricity founder Dale Vince, said it had been a "very difficult process" narrowing it down from nine to two.

"The diversity and quality of the designs was outstanding," he said.

"In the two finalists, we have one from a globally renowned practice and the other designed by an architect that created the award-winning Gloucester services right on our doorstep."

Architectural firms from France, Sweden, Germany and the United States, alongside leading British designers, entered the competition to design an innovative new 5,000 capacity stadium for Forest Green.

The new stadium would be the centrepiece of the £100million Eco Park development – a 100 acre sports and green technology business park proposal by green energy company Ecotricity beside junction 13 of the M5 in Gloucestershire.

Rovers hope to gain planning consent in January.

If Stroud District Council's planning committee give the green light, Ecotricity would look to start construction in 2018.