Training Facilities
European football has never been healthier on the pitch. Seven of the eight quarter finalists in the most recent Womens World Cup were European. Elsewhere the Nations League and EURO competition quality levels are high and the Champions League truly features the best of the best. The top European leagues are the envy of the football world. Quality comes from hard work and the club academies and training facilities are at the heart of this, with both infrastructure and high level coaching crucial. This has been supplemented in recent years by many upgraded or freshly build National Performance Centers. Three years ago, through a UEFA Intelligence Centre survey, UEFA mapped out the training facility and development landscape across European top division clubs. An updated version has provisionally been scheduled for 2023 /2024. In addition the UEFA Intelligence Centre developed proprietary AI to build a pitch detection and mapping tool to identify where and what types of football pitches can be found across Europe.
Supporting Data
The Intelligence Centre Training Centre Landscape brings together information on more than 900 training facilities submitted by over 600 clubs from across Europe during the 2019/20 season. The wider survey covers the fields of academy infrastructure, coaching and youth development. All this information can be benchmarked using other Intelligence Centre data sets as filters:
Number of pitches by type at training centres
Training facility ownership
Usage of medical and technical devices
Training facility usage by squad and level of sharing of facilities
Training centre financial investment over the last five years
Age profiles of training facilities
Example Questions We Can Answer
By combining our network of databases together with professional industry experience, the Intelligence Centre can provide answers to a range of strategic off-pitch football questions.
