Germany’s record-breaking football champion FC Bayern Munich’s new youth training center at Ingolstädter Strasse 272 will, or so club president Uli Hoeneß feels certain, “in future optimize training for young outstanding talents.” Alongside him, other speakers at the official opening ceremony included Bavaria’s Minister President Horst Seehofer, Munich’s Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter and Dr. Rainer Koch, President of the Bavarian Football Association and Vice President of DFB, the German Football Association. A lighter tone was guaranteed in the amusing speech of honor by renowned cabaret artist Bruno Jonas.

“We believe the campus offers us an opportunity to achieve many successes,” Hoeneß said addressing some 300 invited honorary guests and about 100 journalists at the new 30-hectare sports grounds, and went on to say that “this campus will lay further foundations for the future of FC Bayern, another hallmark of our club.”

The new FC Bayern Campus involved pure construction costs of 70 million Euros and took 22 months to build; it has been in operation since August 1, 2017. In 2014, AS+P was commissioned to plan the campus. The grounds are 30 hectares in size and now feature a sports hall for basketball, handball and table tennis, eight football pitches for teams from the Under-9s to the Under-19s as well as for the women’s and girl’s teams, and a 2,500-spectator stadium where the Under-17s and the Under-19s play their national league games. The Allianz FC Bayern Academy, the academy building on the campus houses not only the offices of the coaches and their staff but also 35 apartments for talented players who do not come from metropolitan Munich.

Link to the Press Release of the FC Bayern Munich