Pompey's training base is back in the city.
The club have struck a deal to create a new complex at the Roko Health Club site on Copnor Road. They will put significant funds in to create two state-of-the-art training pitches, and refurbish the existing changing rooms and player lounge facilities.
Pompey will also install offices for football department staff and create a purpose-designed fitness suite for the players.
Pompey have signed a long-term lease with Roko, whose health club services and facilities at the Copnor Road site will be unaffected.
Local football club Pickwick will also benefit, with their teams moving their training and playing operations to Alexandra Park after the City Council joined with Roko and Pompey to help find them a new home.
The club hope to be using the facility by the end of the summer. In the meantime, they will continue to use their current training base at the University of Portsmouth.
Blues chief executive Mark Catlin told the club website: 'We are delighted with this deal and are very grateful to Roko, the council and Pickwick FC for making it happen. It is further tangible evidence of our commitment to rebuild the club to ensure it can continue to grow sustainably in the future.
'Andy Awford and his staff have all been involved in the discussions and they are looking forward to using the new training ground, which is being designed to their specification.
'We see these works as a first phase and if, as we are confident of happening, the club continues to progress, the site can be expanded and developed.'
Barry Hunter, CEO at Sport & Leisure Group which runs the Roko site told the website: 'We are very excited by the prospect of Portsmouth Community Football Club basing their training ground at our Copnor Road site.
'Roko Health Club and our five-a-side centre PlayFootball are well entrenched sport and fitness venues in the Portsmouth community and we believe this opportunity fits very well with our local strategy.'
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