IN PICTURES | PSG: the future training and training center comes out of the ground

For now, it’s still a vast field of mud. Only a building and two football fields can be guessed in a corner of the site, but in the summer of 2023, Leo Messi, Neymar, Kylian Mbappé, we hope, and their PSG teammates will train here. The future “training center”, training center and training center of Paris Saint-Germain is emerging in Poissy in the Yvelines, very close to the current Camp des Loges in Saint-Germain-en-Laye . It is currently the second largest construction site in Île-de-France.

The new training center in a few figures

It is a 74 hectare site bordered by the A14 and the A13. Former farmland elected by the club to become its new HQ. But on the whole, the buildings will occupy only 10% of the surface. Of the remaining 90%, 17 football pitches will be installed, including 12 hybrid ones (half natural grass, half synthetic turf) and among them, six heated hybrid pitches (it’s the same technology as at the Parc des Princes). The land will also have 4,000 trees, an orchard where pear trees are already planted and a vegetable garden that will feed the young people of the training center.

Here, 180 athletes and 200 employees will meet. A project followed from the beginning by Qatari President Nasser al khelaifi and which will cost between 250 and 300 million euros. The initial budget was respected assures PSG, despite the health crisis.

State-of-the-art equipment for professional players

It must be said that PSG wants to offer the most modern and comfortable equipment to its players. In the area that will be dedicated to them, a building of 10,000 square meters has already emerged from the ground. On four levels, it will obviously house a large cloakroom, treatment rooms, balneotherapy, cryotherapy, a sauna, a hammam. But also a restaurant and 43 rooms for the greening of the players before the big matches.

The “PSG campus”, a new youth training center

The site will also host the new training center for young people selected by PSG. A mixed center since from now on it will also welcome the U16 and U19 women. For their studies, a school building is planned, with about fifteen classes. A restaurant as well, an amphitheater and a 150-room residence adjoining the building of the PSG foundation and association, which will also be set up by the end of 2023.

Finally, a second phase of the construction site, starting after the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, will see a final building emerge from the ground to accommodate the handball and judo sections of PSG, and a real stadium with 3,000 seats.