- The sports hall is 1/3 of the area of the current Wembley pitch and is the largest seamless area elastic PU floor in the UK
- St. George's Park has 1 altitude chamber
- 2 full size Futsal pitches can be accommodated in the indoor sports hall
- 3.5 miles of rabbit fencing has been used to protect pitches
- 4 gymnasiums (Hilton gym, Biomechanical gym, Rehabilitation gym, Strength and Conditioning gym)
- 5 pitches have under-soil heating and floodlighting
- 12 full-size pitches, including one indoor full-size pitch
- 228 air conditioned rooms in the Hilton hotel
- 11 suites in the Hilton hotel
- The technology at St. George’s Park is run by 15-20 servers
- 230 televisions and projector screens have been installed with 23 touch screens and boards
- St. George’s Park is home to 24 England teams
- East Midlands airport is 26.1 miles from St. George's Park
- Birmingham Airport is 32.8 miles from St. George's Park
- There are 43 executive rooms in the Hilton hotel
- 50km of brick blocks if laid one in front of the other that would stretch the distance from the site to Birmingham
- 60m running track
- 60m x 40m multi-purpose indoor sports hall
- 65inch touch screen television in the England senior team dressing room
- The rubber crumb used in the gymnasium and re-habiliation rooms is the same granulate used in the outdoor track upon which Usain Bolt broke the 100m record
- 120m x 80m indoor full-size artificial football pitch
- 132 miles to Wembley Stadium
- 130km of pipe to service the under-soil heating
- 138 infield irrigation points
- 250 person education complex
- 275 job created
- 330 acres of land
- 350 car park spaces
- 400 telephones and internet services are installed at St. George’s Park, costing £1.5million
- 500 seat conference centre
- 800 new coaches to be trained and qualified per year at St. George's Park
- 800 coaches to receive Continued Professional Development across the game
- 1,200 licensed coach educators (tutors) to be trained and licensed
- The idea of a national football centre was first discussed in the year 1975
- By 2017 The FA is committed to reducing the ratio of qualified coaches to players from the 1:68 to 1:25
- It takes 4,000 litres of water per night to service the under-soil heating
- 55,000 coaches will go through Levels 1 & 2 and youth award qualifications which will be delivered by the new 1,200 coach educators
- If the roof fabric was removed and made into souvenirs, there is enough to make 64,000 football boot bags
- 90,000 bolts have been used to connect the steelwork and is the equivalent to a typical Wembley crowd
- 2.4million litres of water is in a holding tank to service the infield irrigation points
- There was a £3million technology budget
- There are 100million blades of Desso Grassmaster synthetic fibres on the main ‘Elite’ pitch, where the England senior team will train - an exact replica of the surface at Wembley Stadium
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St. George's Park facts & figures.
