Juventus Training Center (Vinovo)

Juventus Training Center

Vinovo
Location	Vinovo
Coordinates	44°58′40″N 07°36′58″E
Owner	Juventus FC
Type	Football training facility
Capacity	400
Construction
Broke ground	2004
Opened	2006
Construction cost	€ 12.5 million

The Juventus Training Center (colloquially known as "the Vinovo") is a football training facility owned by Juventus, located in Vinovo a comune 14 kilometres southwest of the city of Turin. Designed by GAU and Shesa, the training ground features modern facilities and was opened in August 2006. The facility measures a total of 162,900 square meters and originally cost €12.5 million.

Owned through Campi di Vinovo S.p.A., controlled by the club to 71.3% until 2003, until 2018, it was used as a training ground for the Juventus men's team until the construction of the new training center; it is now exclusively used for the matches and training for that of the Juventus youth sector (already from 2017), and that of the women's team.

Facilities

The training area includes:

• eleven regular playing fields (nine in natural grass and two in synthetic grass), of which:
  • one of reduced size;
  • one with a mobile pressostatic cover, used in case of cold and bad weather;
  • the "Campo Ale & Ricky" (dedicated to the memory of Alessio Ferramosca and Riccardo Neri, youths of the young bianconeri who drowned in a facility pond), with a 400-seat grandstand, reserved for matches of Juventus Women and of all the Juventus youth sector;
• a swimming pool that allows counter-current swimming and hydro massage;
• a physiotherapy center;
• a gym for heating and muscle building;
• soccer tennis;
• seven locker rooms for competitive sports (one for Juventus Women and six for youth teams);
• two warehouses.

The media center includes:

• a hotel of about 350 m²;
• a sports medicine center;
• a room for technical meetings;
• the JTV television studios;
• the press room, which can accommodate up to 30 journalists, for press conferences.

References

Other publications

• "Prospetto informativo OPV 24 maggio 2007" (PDF) (in Italian). Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2007.

External links

• [1] (in English, Italian, Chinese, Indonesian, and Japanese)