On the morning of Monday 16th September, Sevilla FC made public their project to create a new training centre, which will be called: Campus Deportivo y Empresarial José Ramón Cisneros Palacios. Overall, the project will cover a total of 260,000 squared metres: 60,000 for the first team and the remaining 200,000 for the academy. Sanntiago Balbontín, managing director of the installations, showed the project to the media who were present.
The area dedicated to the first team will contain three training pitches, a gym, changing rooms, a canteen and their own medical centre; in addition to a designated place for the players and staff to rest, designed with up to 40 rooms. On the other hand, the outlined area for the academy will contain eight football pitches: three articfial and five grass.
Jesús Navas Stadium
The main stadium in the training centre, which is the Jesús Navas stadium, which will also undergo a large extension, covering an area of more than 20,000 squared metres. For comparison, the Sánchez-Pizjuán covers 31,000 squared metres. On the one side, the total capacity for games will be 6,500, and will be able to host 500 more workers spread out over two tiers.
As for the grandstands, Preferencia will be used for the changing rooms for the youth teams, containing a medical centre, a press room and offices for the coaches and the people who will work there, all in all around a hundred people. Likewise, Fondo will contain departmental offices, where some 150 people will work, in addition to being the place designed for those who work for SFC TV and SFC Radio.
Gol Norte will be used as a main storage centre, while in Gol Sur there will be a covered 7-a-side football pitch, as well as a swimming pool and a gym for the youth teams, covering a combined 3,500 squared metres. Finally, in an area covering 3,000 squared metres, a series of technical buildings will be constructed, which will host a press room, a café, and meeting rooms for the players and maintenance staff.
José Castro declared his ideas about the project
The President, José Castro, after a video demonstration of what the new facilities will look like once the works are completed, declared that: "We are going to have a training centre of the highest standard for Sevilla FC. Our campus, as we will now call it, is going to be the heart of everyone associated with Sevilla FC, and it will be where the daily life of Sevilla FC takes place".
"The reality is that we have not stopped after finishing the first stand. The first project was approved in about four months, and from this we will do the rest in phases. In three or four years it will all be finished, which is what we want", Castro continued.
"It will be finished within three or four years. We have already spent 10 million, and we will spend another 20 million on the training centre"
The Sevilla FC President also highlighted the club's investment in its current projects. "The club's income comes from the first team, for the most part. Without a doubt we have had enough income to allow us to carry out this project. We have spent 10 million euros on the training ground already, and as part of the new investment we will spend another 20 million. We have also spent approximately 15 million on the stadium".
Finally, Castro stressed that "our growth will not stop. We are aware that one day we will need another training ground for the academy. We have started talking to the council in Dos Hermanas to expand what we have. However, we will continue to meet with them and hopefully reach an agreement that makes sense".
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