Derby County may play their home games at Pride Park stadium, but players will be more accustomed to their usual work environment of the Moor Farm training ground.
Derby County training ground name
Derby County’s training ground is officially known as Moor Farm, which opened in 2003 and cost the club £5million to build.
The complex is home to the men’s first-team, men’s academy and the women’s first-team for training.
Moor Farm features a number of full-sized pitches, an indoor pitch and a gym for all of their coaching requirements.
How many pitches does Moor Farm have?
Derby County training ground, Moor Farm, contains 17 pitches for all categories of the club to use.
Most of those pitches are used by the academy, with the Rams hosting a category one development team to produce talent.
When did Derby move to Moor Farm?
Derby County have been training at Moor Farm since the facilities opened in 2003, with its eventual expansion leading to all areas of the club basing their operations there.
Where was Derby County’s old training ground?
Before the move to Moor Farm over 20-years ago, Derby County based their training facilities at the Ramarena in nearby Raynesway.
The Ramarena played host to the Rams for over 30 years, but the land laid unused and derelict after a fire broke out at the site in 2005.
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Leeds United “Spygate”
Moor Farm training ground was at the centre of controversy in 2019 after Derby County manager Frank Lampard revealed that rivals Leeds United had been spying on their training through the bushes.
“Well the training stopped because the police came on the training ground so that’s disruption number one, then it went away,” Lampard revealed. “So I actually was made aware of it after training and then later with a phone call.
“What I will say is that we were training the day before the game on team tactics, team shape, personnel, how we are going to press, how we are going to work on the ball, the fact that Harry Wilson wasn’t training will become very evident, so the person watching sees all of that.
“If somebody wants to say that isn’t relevant and won’t affect the game and tactics aren’t relevant and how you want to prepare, then that means Pep Guardiola, Mauricio Pochettino, Jurgen Klopp and all the great managers then they are just lucky because if preparation and tactics are not part of the game and aren’t sacred that you can work on your own training ground then they are lucky managers because they must be.”
The saga spilled over into the public domain, including a public press conference by Marcelo Bielsa to show his pre-match preparations, as well as some feisty encounters that led to Derby sinking Leeds in the play-offs that season.
Address
Derby County Training Centre address: Moor Farm, Morley Rd, Oakwood, Derby DE21 4TB