Manchester United have invested £7million into a new-look women’s training complex at the club’s Carrington base.
The high-performance facility was unveiled on Tuesday and will be used by both the women’s team and the boys academy.
The facilities boast gym changing rooms, kit and boot rooms, a women's first-team restaurant, meeting rooms and a players' lounge.
The regeneration of the club’s training ground comes almost a year after Cristiano Ronaldo’s scathing criticism of the club for a ‘lack of evolution’ and ‘dated training facilities’ during his ill-fated second stint at Old Trafford that ended in 2022.
But Manchester United’s head of women’s football Polly Bancroft preferred to highlight the good work the club has done to show their commitment to the Women’s team and revealed the facility took just seven months to build.
“We’re really pleased to be opening the new building here at Carrington,” Bancroft said. “It’s a dedicated space for the women and some of the boys academy here as well.
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“We’re in the sixth season of the women’s team restarting at Manchester United and there’s been such a huge trajectory in that period of time. The opening of this building is a key milestone to offer that high-performance environment which matches the high performance on the pitch.
“We’ve now got brand new facilities with a gym, with analysis rooms, meeting rooms, canteen, physio rooms, doctors rooms.
“The build time for this was actually really quick – seven months from start to finish with the diggers going into the ground until we moved in.
“The building is just one part of the one club approach we have at Manchester United and having the Women’s team visible and facilities visible for all of them at Carrington is a great statement.”
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