Summerfield Robb Clark part of ARCADIS AYH Plc, acting as project managers and cost consultants, successfully delivered the new state-of-the-art £8million 50-acre football training centre for Celtic Football Club.

The training centre is set within beautiful grounds with views of the Campsie Hills, providing Celtic's professional squads and youth teams with comfortable and modern surroundings, in which they can focus on training and development.

 

The new facilities include:

 

Extensive  gymnasium  and hydrotherapy facilities 
Physiotherapy, sports science  and medical suites
Teaching facilities, which include performance reporting and tactical review for club coaches
An indoor training area incorporating artificial  pitch 
Dedicated goalkeeping training areas
Kitchen and dining areas and meeting rooms 
Extensive changing facilities for players, coaches  and visiting officials
Media suite 
Three full-size natural grass  pitches, one of which is heated 
Full-size floodlit artificial pitch

 

The new training centre has been built on a hillside, on part of the former Lennox Castle Hospital grounds. The gradient was altered to create a flat platform for the playing surfaces.  500,000m3 of earth was moved to create three vast terraces and an attenuation pond which can cope with the worst Scottish winter downpour.  The facility also has its own borehole, extracting ground water to supply the automated irrigation system that will nourish the natural grass pitches during dry months.

 

Gary Logue, Sector Director at ARCADIS AYH Plc comments:  "This new training centre has been constructed to an exceptional standard and will revolutionise the way the Celtic players train, safe in the knowledge they are surrounded by dedicated staff and technology to ensure their best possible physical advancement and welfare. 

"We are extremely pleased to have successfully managed this project to completion. The reputation of Celtic is one built on success and we are proud to be part of that, hoping that our efforts over the past two years will benefit the Club and future generations of aspiring footballers.'' 

 

Celtic's Chief Executive Peter Lawwell described the new training ground as world class: "What we have built is a world class facility, fit for the 21st century in terms of capacity and potential, befitting a club of Celtic's history and stature and that will help us to develop and recruit new talent both now and in years to come.

 

The new training ground is located at Lennoxtown, just outside Glasgow.