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Blackpool FC buy 100-acre site for new training facility

AFL Architects artist impression of the new training facilityAFL Architects
Blackpool want to build a bespoke building with changing, medical, coaching, fitness and education areas

Blackpool Football Club have bought nearly 100 acres of land for a new training facility.

The site connects Blackpool and Poulton-le-Fylde along Garstang Road, bordered by the Grange Park Estate and Baines School.

The club want to build a bespoke building with areas for coaching, fitness, medical and education.

There will also be six grass pitches and one full size artificial pitch for under-18 games.

The club said a planning application would be submitted "at the earliest opportunity".

Blackpool FC owner Simon Sadler said: "Since the very first day that I became the custodian of this football club, my priority has been to deliver a training facility that integrates the academy right through to the first team.

"I have always maintained that our future success is being built upon three pillars - coaching, recruitment and the academy. This new training facility is integral to that."

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