Bristol City have confirmed the club's new training ground at Failand will be called the Robins High Performance Centre with Nigel Pearson and his squad to train on the multi-million pound complex full-time from Monday.
The site is next to what is now the old training ground, with landscaping and construction of the facility having taken 13 months. In total, from conception to completion, the project took six years with planning permission was first granted in September 2018.
Pearson and his squad have trained on the pitches but this week will be the first time they use the facility Monday to Friday, with support staff having moved in late last week to prepare. Bristol City face Stoke City in the Championship on Good Friday.
Bristol City and the academy will now be housed in the same complex, solidifying the relationship and pathway between age-group levels and the first-team and realising Steve Lansdown's grand vision for the club.
Symbolically, the contract extensions of academy products Zak Vyner and Max O'Leary plus Taylor Moore were announced in October 2020 with the Robins High Performance Centre as backdrop.
The new base features a floodlit show pitch with a lengthy viewing gallery, to host Under-18 and Under-23 matches, two other full-size pitches and two further training areas.
On site is also a gym, changing rooms, medical and rehabilitation facilities and office space, as well as education and welfare facilities for the club's young players.
When asked about City's new training ground last year, owner Steve Lansdown, who remains in Guernsey and has been unable to visit the site since the start of the pandemic, said: "It's a major part of what we're about.
"The training ground is where the players spend the majority of their time, it's their home, that's where the family culture is built up."
Bristol Bears opened their new training facility at Abbots Leigh site, also called the Bears High-Performance Centre, in August 2020.
