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CITY TO MOVE INTO NEW £100M TRAINING COMPLEX TOMORROW
LEICESTER City have officially unveiled their breathtaking new training ground, with the players to move in on Christmas Eve.
After two years of work at the 185-acre site in Seagrave, City will now make the £100 million facility their home.
Across the former Park Hill Golf Club are 21 training areas, including 14 full-size pitches and a 499-seater show pitch for youth team games.
The buildings at the heart of the complex have been named after the late owner and his company.
The snaking administrative and medical hub is called the Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Building, and will host all of the facilities for the players and football operations staff, as well as a restaurant and recreation areas.
The dome that dominates the site is the King Power Centre, which has an indoor artificial pitch and media facilities.
Also on the site is the Sports Turf Academy, designed to educate the next generation of groundstaff, as well as a nine-hole golf course for the players to use.
It is the culmination of a longheld dream, City chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, pictured, said in a statement.
“The club has taken some enormous strides forward in the last 10 years,” he said.
“In terms of our long-term future, this is perhaps the biggest.
“A new training ground has been a dream many years in the making, so it is with great pride that we have been able to deliver this.
“Seagrave will be a pivotal part of the club’s operation for generations to come. Of all the investments we have made in the club, this has been our most significant. “It is an investment in our players of today and our players of tomorrow, putting some of the very best facilities in the world at the heart of their everyday environment.
“It elevates the club’s offering to its players and staff to an entirely new level and is a key component in making our progress of recent years sustainable.” City’s players have been visiting the complex every now and again over the past few months, and they will have a health-andsafety briefing there this afternoon before enjoying their first training session tomorrow morning as they prepare for the Boxing Day clash with Manchester United.