The Bosnia and Herzegovina FA Training Centre (Bosnian: 'Trening centar Nogometnog/Fudbalskog saveza Bosne i Herzegovine') is the training ground of the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina located in the Crkvičko brdo neighbourhood of Zenica, Zenica-Doboj Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] The centre was officially inaugurated on 2 September 2013 by then-president of UEFA, Michel Platini, after the first stage of construction was completed.[2]
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Full name | Trening centar Nogometnog/Fudbalskog saveza Bosne i Hercegovine |
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Address | Crkvice bb, Crkvičko brdo 72000 |
Location | Zenica, ![]() |
Coordinates | 44°12′N 17°54′E |
Owner | Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Type | Football training ground |
Capacity | 1.500 |
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Opened | 2 September 2013 |
Expanded | 21 September 2015 |
Construction cost | 5 million euros (2013) |
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Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
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Official website |
The Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, aware of the fact that it did not own training facilities for its national team selections, drafted out plans for the construction of a modern training centre in the mid-2000s, quickly securing funds for the project and deciding on the location. A suburb of Zenica was chosen because the town's Bilino Polje Stadium was the national team's home ground at the time. The implementation of the project coincided with large-scale, politically motivated turbulences in the organization that eventually led to a FIFA-issued short-term suspension on all competitive national team selections.[3] The instability in the governing body of Bosnian football led to the shelving of the project, for it to reemerge only after an UEFA-sponsored Normalization Committee was formed, which included the likes of Ivica Osim, Dušan Bajević, Faruk Hadžibegić, Darko Ljubojević and Sead Kajtaz.[4] The Committee, being assigned full executive power as a means for solving the aforementioned issues in the FA, immediately sped up the training centre project, with construction beginning in early 2011.[5] Construction was completed in late 2013, with the centre being officially inaugurated by Michel Platini on 2 September 2013.[2] On 21 September 2015, after a two-year expansion project, new facilities, including an indoor arena were opened.
The training centre consists of one artificial and two natural turf pitches, an indoor Futsal arena,[6] terraces, a 27-room hotel, wellness centre, restaurant, indoor and outdoor cafés, two large conference rooms, a recreational lobby and designated administration and technical premises.[7] Furthermore, it is encompassed by a large private parking lot, entrance gates and a main square.[8] On 23 October 2015 the centre was granted UEFA and FIFA PRO licences, and has subsequently hosted women's and youth qualifiers.[9][10]
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italicised means academy in construction |