Bournemouth’s players will move into their new “state-of-the-art” training centre by the end of this month, before an official opening of the facility in April, says owner Bill Foley.
The £32m project includes a total of 16 pitches (including four full-sized outdoor pitches with floodlights), an indoor dome, medical, fitness, sports science and rehabilitation facilities, offices and a press conference theatre on a 57-acre site at Canford Magna. The Academy, first team and women’s teams will all be based on the site.
Foley told Talksport: “We are opening our own training facility [and] should be ribbon cutting that when I’m over there in April. The players are moving in before the end of the month.
“The Academy will move over probably in late April or early May. That is a big first step. This is a serious facility. Our players have already seen it, they have already toured it.
“We will have an indoor pitch, four outdoor pitches, they will be under the lights. It really is a state of the art facility.”
The project was first approved in October 2019, after Cherries purchased the former golf club site for £3.75m in January 2018. Work began before being paused during the COVID-19 pandemic, resuming in the summer of 2022, following the club’s promotion back to the Premier League.
