Bodymoor Heath Training Ground is Aston Villa Football Club’s training ground, at Bodymoor Heath in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England.
West Ham United’s first-team training base of more than 50 years has been Chadwell Heath.
The complex is home to three full-size outdoor pitches, including one fitted with undersoil heating to enable year-round training to take place.
The main building comprises a first-team dressing room and facilities, a canteen, reception area and offices.
Two treatment rooms, a gymnasium, a performance analysis suite, meeting/press conference room, media suite and other offices are situated in a number of permanent and semi-permanent outbuildings.
As well as playing host to the first-team squad, Chadwell Heath is also the training base for West Ham United Ladies and is used by the Academy for indoor and outdoor evening training sessions and trials.
Watford F.C. also train in London Colney on Arsenal F.C.’s old training ground, University College London Union’s (UCLU) Shenley Sports grounds which is situated between the Arsenal Training Centre and the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre
The new architecturally designed Tottenham Hotspur Training Centre has been built on 77 acres and is located on Hotspur Way, Enfield. It is the home of the Club’s First Team and Academy and is recognised as one of the best in Europe.
The state-of-the-art facility – which includes a covered artificial pitch, world-class player preparation areas, pool and hydrotherapy complex, altitude room, large-scale gymnasium and specialist sports rehabilitation suites – will support the Club’s ambitions to attract, develop and retain the highest quality talent.
There are 15 grass pitches across the site including four dedicated solely for First Team Training and one and a half artificial outdoor pitches with floodlighting. The First Team Match pitch is built to exactly the same specification as the pitch at White Hart Lane.
The club’s training ground, the Staplewood Football Development & Support Centre, is located in the Marchwood area of Southampton. The final cost of the development came in at more than £39m.
The new training ground is used by all age groups, with players start at one end of the training ground as U8s and graduating through the site.
Newcastle United Training Centre, more commonly known as “Darsley Park” is the training ground of Premier League club Newcastle United. It lies next door to the Northumberland Football Association base at Whitley Park,North Tyneside, England.
Since July 2003 Newcastle United’s first team have trained at the purpose-built centre. The academy train in a separate facility at Little Benton, south of Darsley Park.
The complex comprises four buildings: the main building which houses the main reception, changing rooms, managerial offices, meeting rooms, gym, physiotherapy, restaurant and a recreation area. Adjacent to this is the laundry area where all the strips and training gear are taken care for. Next, is the indoor pitch, a full-size pitch with a rubber-based astroturf, called FieldTurf, shielded from the elements by a tough canvas covering. Finally there is the green-keepers’ building.
The Trafford Training Centre (currently known as the AON Training Complex for sponsorship reasons and usually referred to as Carrington) is the sports training facility and academy headquarters of English football club Manchester United F.C. It is located near the village of Carrington in Greater Manchester. The centre replaced The Cliff as the club’s training ground in 2000. Construction on the complex began in 1999, the main building was opened and the first team moved in in 2000, followed in 2002 by the Academy facility, home to the club’s renowned youth system. In 2013, major additions were completed at the complex, including a medical centre and sports science department, bringing the total construction cost of the training complex to over £60 million. The complex is regarded as one of the premier training facilities in world football, and is noted for its secrecy, security measures and use of cutting-edge modern technology.
The City Football Academy (CFA) is a part of the larger Etihad Campus, an area of Sportcity, Manchester which is mostly owned and operated by Manchester City Football Club. The campus includes the Etihad Stadium, the CFA training facility and club world headquarters, and undeveloped land adjacent to both of these facilities. These two main portions of the campus site are linked by a 60-metre landmark pedestrian walkway/footbridge that spans the junction of Alan Turing Way and Ashton New Road. The term “Etihad Campus” embraces both the stadium – which already existed when the name was coined in 2010 – as well as much of the surrounding undeveloped land that existed at that time, although the term is also frequently used as a direct synonym for just the CFA portion of the entire planned campus.
The first team and academy teams hold their training sessions at the CFA.
Melwood, in West Derby, Liverpool, is home to Liverpool Football Club’s training ground. It is not attached to The Academy, which is in Kirkby.
Melwood was in a terrible state in 1959, and was transformed into a top class training facility by Bill Shankly.
Leicester City FC’s training ground is located in Leicester.
Concerns have been raised about “foul language” ringing out from Leicester City’s training ground.
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