Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper

The Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper ( Catalan for, Joan Gamper Sports City ') is the training ground of the Spanish club FC Barcelona. It is located in Sant Joan Despi, about five kilometers away from the Camp Nou, and is named after the founder of the club, Joan Gamper, named.

The 13.7 hectare site is divided into four main areas: the training pitches, a multi-sports hall, the main building and a building for the locker room. The terrain consists of nine football fields, four of which are with artificial turf and a small box. The multi-sports hall consists of three playing fields for basketball, that can also be used by the handball or futsal players but.

The opening at the training ground on June 1, 2006. It initially served the youth teams as a training ground and home for the regular operation. Other sports sections of the society, such as basketball, handball or Futsal Division, carry their workouts from the multi-sports hall. The first team football department training here January 19, 2009, usually closed to the public. Previously, she coached for thirty years in close proximity to Camp Nou and La Masia.

In September 2011, should also La Masia, the youth academy of the club to move into a new building in the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper.

For the construction of the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper was the cost of 42.5 million euros, 25.6 million euros more to come for urbanization. As early as 1989 planned by the then club president Josep Lluís Núñez the construction of the sports facility. Problems with financing, the owners of the land and the public institutions led to a further six years elapsed between the foundation stone was laid in late 2000 and completion.