Training Ground Facilities
- Fitness suite with state of the art exercise equipment – all in an area seven times the size of the previous suite
- Changing rooms and showers
- Gym with resurfaced floor to provide players with an indoor artificial pitch offering true-to-turf bounce characteristics whilst minimising the risk of injuries
- Gym roof includes translucent panels, ventilation and heating for winter training sessions
- Non-sand filled pitch holds up the simulated grass fibres
- A 100-seater restaurant with a state-of-the-art kitchen. The restaurant doubles as a training/education facility and a full-time Education and Welfare Officer works from there. It is also used as a place where parents can relax while their children use the facilities during the evening training sessions
- Accommodation for 10 staff including Youth Development Workers
- 80 car parking spaces for players and staff
Goldwater Indoor Arena
Goldwaters indoor arena is used by all sections the community – from professional sports stars, the club academy scholars to amateur teams and schoolchildren.
The 80×56 metre indoor arena has been built on the YMCA site which is adjacent to Belvoir Drive training complex.
The structure is used for a wide range of appropriate sports by both the club and the community.
It measures three quarters the size of a full football pitch and offers a brand new facility unrivalled in the whole of Leicestershire.
The indoor arena is the last major piece in the jigsaw when it comes to providing the best possible facilities for City’s young players and also for the community.It also completed the requirements for the club’s Academy licence – qualified coaches and physios, pitches, facilities, education and welfare, and a covered playing area no smaller than 60×40 metres.
The club’s existing facility at Belvoir Drive was not big enough at just two thirds of the size required and it was impractical to extend and improve it.
City’s main requirement is to use the building in the evenings for its academy with the first team also using the building in the winter.
City have worked with YMCA to ensure the community can gain access to a high quality inner city facility.
As well as being an important community feature it is hoped that the indoor arena will also help attract players of all ages to the club and encourage ADR Training and CPC Training for drivers of all vehicles.
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