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| Full name | Trening centar Nogometnog/Fudbalskog saveza Bosne i Hercegovine Тренинг центар Ногометног/Фудбалског савеза Босне и Херцеговине |
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| Address | Crkvice bb, Crkvičko brdo 72000 |
| Location | Zenica, Bosnia & Herzegovina |
| Coordinates | 44°12′18″N17°55′12″E / 44.205°N 17.920°E /44.205; 17.920 |
| Owner | Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Type | Football training ground |
| Capacity | 1.500 |
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| Opened | 2 September 2013 |
| Expanded | 21 September 2015 |
| Construction cost | 5million euros (2013) |
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TheBosnia and Herzegovina FA Training Centre (Bosnian:Trening centar Nogometnog/Fudbalskog saveza Bosne i Hercegovine;Cyrillic:Тренинг центар Ногометног/Фудбалског савеза Босне и Херцеговине) is thetraining ground of theFootball Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina located in the Crkvičko brdo neighbourhood ofZenica,Zenica-Doboj Canton,Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] The centre was officially inaugurated on 2 September 2013 by then-president ofUEFA,Michel Platini, after the first stage of construction was completed.[2]
The Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, aware of the fact that it did not own training facilities for its national team selections, drafted out plans for the construction of a modern training centre in the mid-2000s, quickly securing funds for the project and deciding on the location. A suburb of Zenica was chosen because the town'sBilino Polje Stadium was the national team's home ground at the time. The implementation of the project coincided with large-scale, politically motivated turbulences in the organization that eventually led to aFIFA-issued short-term suspension on all competitive national team selections.[3] The instability in the governing body of Bosnian football led to the shelving of the project, for it to reemerge only after an UEFA-sponsored Normalization Committee was formed, which included the likes ofIvica Osim,Dušan Bajević,Faruk Hadžibegić,Darko Ljubojević andSead Kajtaz.[4] The committee, being assigned full executive power as a means for solving the aforementioned issues in the FA, immediately sped up the training centre project, with construction beginning in early 2011.[5] Construction was completed in late 2013, with the centre being officially inaugurated by Michel Platini on 2 September 2013.[2] On 21 September 2015, after a two-year expansion project, new facilities, including an indoor arena were opened.
The training centre consists of one artificial and two natural turf pitches, an indoorFutsal arena,[6] terraces, a 27-room hotel, wellness centre, restaurant, indoor and outdoor cafés, two large conference rooms, a recreational lobby and designated administration and technical premises.[7] Furthermore, it is encompassed by a large private parking lot, entrance gates and a main square.[8] On 23 October 2015 the centre was granted UEFA and FIFA PRO licences, and has subsequently hosted women's and youth qualifiers.[9][10]
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