The Mets and Yankees aren’t the only local ballclubs with new venues in their future.

The Binghamton University baseball and softball teams will receive new stadiums as soon as the necessary funding becomes available, according to BU Director of Athletics Joel Thirer.

The new stadiums would have turf fields, stadium-style seating and lighting — a necessity to host America East Conference tournaments. The baseball field would be situated near its current position west of the Events Center while the softball field would be relocated to the north of the Bearcats Sports Complex.

Thirer said he cannot offer an estimate of the stadium’s cost, mainly because he does not know when the money will be procured and what the price of building the stadiums will be when it is. He said, however, that the University would seek about $5 million from the SUNY Construction Fund — the same amount it requested to build the BSC, the University’s soccer and lacrosse fields, which opened in the fall.

The new fields are considered phase two of the construction plan that began with the BSC.

“Our construction planning has been known over the years, way before a shovel was put in the ground for the Bearcats Sports Complex, and baseball and softball were part of that long-range plan,” Thirer said.

New York State Sen. Tom Libous, who secured the funding for the BSC, was unable to gather enough to money build the baseball and softball stadiums concurrently with the lacrosse and soccer fields. The senator’s office said the new fields are on his radar.

“He was happy to provide the $5 million that went into the new soccer and lacrosse fields, he was happy he was able to provide the $30 million for the Events Center, the $29 million for the [University Downtown Center], the $15 million for the Innovative Technologies building and also the $60 million that is going to the engineering building,” said a Libous spokesman. “That being said, right now budget negotiations are still going on … so we’re not sure what SUNY capital funds are going to be, but we do have a very good track record of providing money.”

The final state budgets are scheduled to be set on April 1.

If Binghamton does secure the funding, a lengthy process where architects and contractors bid on the project would begin. Arranging for the construction takes longer than physically building the stadiums, according to Thirer.

The baseball stadium would be built comparably to SUNY Farmingdale’s stadium, which opened in 2005 and hosted last season’s AE Championship Tournament.

Farmingdale Athletic Director Michael Harrington said the stadium cost about $3.2 million, up $1.8 million from the original estimate. The stadium also took two years to build, but both the increase in cost and time were due to technical issues with the construction.

“You could do it in one year if everything goes right,” Harrington said. “We did it top notch — everything is the best you can get … We just finished all of the brickwork and doing shrubbery and a picnic area. It’s as nice as any minor league stadium.”

The turf field, which Thirer said could cost about a million dollars on its own, and lighting fixtures, which Thirer estimated at several hundred thousand dollars, would be the primary upgrades. The field would drain better and be playable on at night, increasing its versatility and making BU a more appealing destination for recruits.

The stadium would have 750 to 1,000 seats, despite how sparse crowds are during current BU baseball games in the cold spring season. Farmingdale’s stadium has 1,000 seats.

A press box would also be built.

“You want to build it so you can accommodate more, not less, because you only get one shot at doing it,” Thirer said. “So when you do it, you have to do it correctly.”