José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground
The Training Ground: Villarreal CF’s Headquarters
Covering an area of 130,000 square metres, the José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground is the regular workplace not only for our first team, but also for all the club’s Academy sides. It also includes a residence for young Academy players who come from all over the world to develop as footballers. The facility is located on Camino Miralcamp in Vila-real.
The Training Ground features eight full-size football pitches, five with natural grass and three with artificial turf, as well as three five-a-side pitches, a multi-purpose area and two large buildings. The largest of these is the Residence, which serves as the headquarters for the first team and Academy players. The second building houses the club’s Offices, including the administrative staff and boardroom facilities.
José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground / Camino Miralcamp, 128 / 12540 Vila-real (Castellón)
Tel: (+34) 964 500 250 / Fax: (+34) 964 500 167
Email: villarrealcf@villarrealcf.es
Training Pitches
The José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground boasts eight full-size football pitches, five of them with natural grass, all fully floodlit. Three are reserved exclusively for first-team use, one is used daily by Villarreal B, and the final pitch, the Mini Estadi, hosts the home matches of Villarreal CF’s reserve sides. The stadium has a capacity of approximately 3,500 spectators.
In addition, there are three next-generation artificial pitches measuring 90 x 60 metres and 100 x 65 metres, all equipped with floodlighting. Two of these can also be divided into Football 8 pitches (60 x 35 metres), where the younger teams of the Yellow Submarine Academy train.
The Training Ground also includes three small Football 5 pitches, where children enrolled in Villarreal CF’s Psychomotricity Course take their first steps in football.
The complex also contains two buildings, the oldest of which is the Residence. On the ground floor are the professional changing rooms, a dedicated medical area, a weights room, a gymnasium, a hydrotherapy room and several offices for the coaching staff.
The second floor houses the cafeteria overlooking the football pitches, a kitchen and the Academy residence, which extends onto the third floor and has capacity for more than one hundred young footballers striving to become professional players. The residence accommodates youngsters aged between 14 and 18 from across Spain and around the world. These promising talents are supported by a specialised educator and attend school in Vila-real.
The fourth floor is home to the First-Team Residence, a dedicated area where the senior squad stays and prepares the day before matches played at the Estadio de la Cerámica.
Offices
The growth of Villarreal CF, however, is not limited exclusively to the sporting side of the club. In fact, the Yellow Submarine has an office building of more than 1,500 square metres located in front of the first-team training pitch, which houses the club’s management and executive departments.
From marketing, protocol and communications to the sporting director’s office and the boardroom, everything is based within a spacious, modern and functional facility. The building also includes a cafeteria for the enjoyment of Villarreal staff and even a travel agency
The first-team residence, the new home for the Yellows
The Yellows home. Inaugurated in 2018, the Villarreal residence is the normal meeting place for the first team before matches. With a superficie of nearly 1,000 squared metres, the modern facility based in the José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground has 21 bedrooms, a conference room, two living rooms and a spectacular terrace. Furthermore, this space is designed with cutting-edge material, finished to the highest quality and with technology in all bedrooms.
The residence, pioneering in European football, is in the same building as the first-team dressing room, gym and private clinic, which are on the ground floor.
YOUTH ACADEMY
In Spanish football, the residence facilities at the José Manuel Llaneza Training Ground are undoubtedly a benchmark for many top-flight clubs. In fact, some of the residences used by other major football clubs have followed the Yellow Submarine’s model down to the smallest details.
Around one hundred young players live at the Training Ground residence, spread across two floors of the building, where they have everything they need to enjoy a comfortable environment and successfully balance their football commitments with their education. The younger residents, from the U12, U14 and U16 age groups, live on the first floor, while the second floor is home to the U19 players and the coordinators, whose role is to ensure the youngsters share the space responsibly, fulfil their obligations and also make time to enjoy the leisure facilities available, including a video room, games area, library and computers with internet access. These talented young players come from all corners of Spain, as well as from countries around the world.