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Manchester City Women have unveiled a ÂŁ10m state-of-the-art headquarters featuring personalized chopsticks, bespoke recovery shakes, and underwater treadmills. The facility aims to enhance performance and foster a winning culture among the players.
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Whether it is the chopsticks in the canteen with individually engraved names on for Manchester Cityâs Japanese players, the bespoke pineapple and mango recovery shakes made for Khadija âBunnyâ Shaw to satisfy her taste buds or the underwater treadmill allowing players to watch Sky Sports News while in the recovery pool, it is not difficult to understand why the squad say they love their new womenâs team headquarters.
The ÂŁ10m state-of-the-art building, designed for the first team at the City Football Academy adjacent to their Joie Stadium home ground, has everything from hamstring strength testing kit in the gym to a barista-style coffee machine in the canteen, all aimed at maximising performance for female athletes. Along one corridor is printed: âWe will find a way to win âŠâ â a mantra repeated by the head coach, AndrĂ©e Jeglertz, regularly this season. They hope this facility will help make winning a habit.

The canteen at the new facility housing three chefs to serve the womenâs team. Photograph: Manchester City FC
Cityâs captain, Alex Greenwood, who will lift the WSL trophy this Saturday, is glowing in her praise for the new site. In the room where she and her teammates watched Arsenalâs draw with Brighton last Wednesday that secured Cityâs title she is asked whether it is the best facility she has seen.
âFor a womenâs team specifically, yes, for sure,â Greenwood replies. âObviously, at England we have St Georgeâs Park, which is incredible. At Lyon, we had a facility which was OK. It was good, it met its needs, but nothing comes close to this. I think itâs the best because itâs specifically for us, in every way.
âI also hope this is a shift for womenâs football, for other clubs to push their womenâs team to have their own facilities. As someone who is massive on growing the game, I really hope other clubs take a look at this and go: âOK, letâs do the same.ââ
City are by no means alone in having opened such a site: Brightonâs ÂŁ8.5m womenâs team centre opened in 2021 and many others have followed suit, but the details in the WSLâs newest purpose-built facility are impressive. The changing room has been designed â at the playersâ request â to be akin to that found inside the Etihad Stadium, with the squad positioned in a circle to try to make everybody feel equal. The surnames are in squad number order except for one: Shaw, the No 9, is next to Greenwood to continue a superstition because they always have sat next to each other while together at the club. The changing room is yards from the pitch the squad most frequently train on.
The headquarters includes personalized chopsticks, bespoke recovery shakes, and underwater treadmills, among other amenities.
The new training facility cost ÂŁ10 million.
The facility is designed to maximize performance and help instill a winning culture among the players.
The head coach of Manchester City Women is Andrée Jeglertz.

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The new facility, which sits adjacent to the Joie Stadium, has its changing rooms a stoneâs throw from the training pitch. Photograph: Manchester City FC
Previously the women might have shared a gym with Cityâs boysâ academy. Now their gym equipment is programmed for female athletes, includes specialist equipment for non-invasive shock wave therapy. Recovery drinks, bespoke for each playerâs schedule or nutrition plan, are left waiting for them. On the staircase up to the lounge, canteen and staff offices, players with 100 or more City appearances are honoured, including Steph Houghton, Jill Scott and Izzy Christiansen, who is outside coaching the youth team.
The squad moved into the 17,000 sq ft building on 10 March, after the February-March international break, a day after the staff. They have since clinched the clubâs first WSL title in a decade and reached the FA Cup final.
âWeâre trying to build the winning machine,â says the managing director, Charlotte OâNeill. âIf you look at this facility, it tells you what City Football Group thinks of womenâs football and this team.â
The canteen has a menu built around the womenâs teamâs schedule, rather than being shared with the boys. Emma Deakin, the director of performance services, who was central to discussions about the design for three and a half years, says: âWeâve got three specific chefs that work with the womenâs team â they work really closely with our nutritionist to plan menus. Over there [with the academy] the requirements are different and youâve got 200 under-14-to-19 boys to feed. We can be really specific around the girlsâ tastes and knowing what they want to eat and how to fuel.
âWe were in that building [with the academy] and those facilities are amazing but it didnât feel like a home for the womenâs programme. It just felt like people were coming to work. [Now] itâs so much better.â

Physios and doctors are based adjacent to the gym as City aim to reduce the injury risk for players. Photograph: Manchester City FC
A chef also travels with the team for away games. City are trying to pride themselves on is reducing the injury risk and the physios and doctor are based adjacent to the gym on the ground floor.
Another key focus has been âtogethernessâ, and Jeglertz describes the playersâ lounge, which converts into a team meeting room, as the âheartâ of the facility. He says his favourite thing about the new building is: âjust the possibilities of connections between me and the players. I see them every day, you donât need to book a meeting [any more], you walk past them all the time, you can easily go [and] speak to a player.â
In reception the honours wall catches the eye. Most noticeably, a lot of space has been left for trophies to be added. The club intend to dominate and this new facility may just make that possible.