The project has received a £6m grant offer from the Football Foundation with the remaining funding provided by Derby City Council (DCC) to provide the local community with a sports hub featuring four 3G football turf pitches, a significant number of grass football pitches and a changing pavilion with an accompanying café and meeting space.

Identified in the Local Football Facility Plan for Derby, the project will create significantly more opportunities for the local community to come together through sport.

Alliance Leisure is delivering the hub via the UK Leisure Framework, owned and managed by Denbighshire Leisure. The new facilities, which are expected to open in Spring 2024, will be used by three partner football clubs and will enable their number of teams to grow by half within five years of opening. The hub will also host a multi-sport offering through a strength and conditioning gym and a 3v3 basketball area.

The site will be operated by Leisure United, the charitable operating arm of the National Football Trust, who will re-invest any surplus revenue generated back into grassroots sport across the city.

This project is part of the Football Foundation’s Hubs programme, which has already seen 16 multi-pitch sites open across the country. Over the next 12 months, an additional eight hubs are due to open, including the one at the Racecourse, to provide safe, accessible and quality facilities for people to come together and play sport.