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Leicester City’s new training ground will be "the most advanced in Europe", say the engineering specialists hired to oversee the £100 million project.

Manchester-based TRP Consulting will oversee the development of City’s state-of-the-art new training facility in Charnwood, based at the 185-acre former Park Hill Golf Club site off the A46.

The plans include 12 full-size pitches, together with various smaller pitches and outdoor training areas, plus a full-size indoor pitch within a signature central building.

The plans were drawn up by KSS architects, who planned Tottenham Hotspur's training ground and Liverpool's new main stand developments as well as Number One Court at Wimbledon and Twickenham’s East Stand.

TRP are also working on Huddersfield Town’s new training facility, and director Geoff Wilks said the City plans were "breathtaking".

“This is a fantastic sporting facility that is being described as the most advanced in Europe,” he told Insider Media Ltd.

“We’re delighted to have been appointed to work with KSS, one of the leading sports architects in the world, on the development, which is breath-taking in its scope.

“The appointment is also testament to the growing reputation our team has in helping to successfully deliver large-scale sporting developments and follows our appointment to Huddersfield Town’s project.”

City also have plans to redevelop the East Stand at King Power Stadium to increase the capacity to around 40,000, but the training ground is the first project to be undertaken.

The new training facility was one of the dreams of City’s late chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who believed the site could help propel the club towards competing with Europe’s elite clubs by helping attract players.

City have not revealed what they plan to do with their current training facility at Belvoir Drive, which has been their training base since 1963.

Before that, City trained at various venues around the city, including the car park at Filbert Street and on a recreation ground that used to be behind the Main Stand.

(Image: Leicester City FC/KSS Group)

At various times they also used the nearby Dunlop Sports Ground at St Mary’s Mills, the Electricity Sports Ground on Aylestone Road, the Granby Halls and the Saffron Lane Sports Ground.