Key spaces
The Pitches
Three pitches (including one certified by UEFA/FFF) are available to the professional squad—which represents one additional pitch compared to previous facilities.
A 280-seat grandstand adjoins one of these pitches, allowing spectators to attend the professional squad’s training sessions and enabling the hosting of Youth League matches for the U19 squad.
The Dressing Room
Located at the heart of the Performance Center, the dressing room was designed as a real well of light, around which the vast majority of the players' needs are consolidated.
The dressing room features 38 individual spaces, each equipped with a storage locker and a digital screen.
The Fitness Center
The fitness center is a large, light-filled space with a huge bay window overlooking the pitches, allowing players to carry out preventive work and weight training sessions in an optimal setting. The space is directly connected to the offices of the performance department, which are located on the second floor of the fitness center. Divided into several specialities (physical preparation, medical, nutrition, sport science, etc.), the performance department’s mission is to collect, store, analyze and use all the players’ sporting and physiological data.
Medical area
With several specific areas for doctors, physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors and psychologists, the medical services area is linked to the locker room and to the whole area dedicated to performance.
The design of the medical area allows to provide a high level of attention to the players and to be always available for them.
Dream Box
The Centre is also equipped with five capsules in which players can rest between two training sessions in the best possible conditions (light therapy, mattresses perfectly adapted to the needs of high-level sportsmen, relaxing music) — the Dream Box space is conducive to rest and recovery.
Balneotherapy
Balneotherapy is located on two levels, in a space dedicated to rest, recovery and reathletization of injured players.
Hot and cold baths, sauna, hammam, specialized equipment for rehabilitation such as the AlterG or the HydroWorks — the well-being of the squad being at the service of performance is one of the keys to the project.
Cafeteria
A modular and multi-purpose space with a capacity of 56 (+ 24 additional seats in a private area), the cafeteria is the place where players and staff can share their breakfast and lunch together. In a social and educational spirit, the kitchen and its neighboring hydration station are open to the room and the terrace faces the pitches.
While 100% homemade dishes are prepared there, an organic vegetable garden also allows the catering service to promote local and seasonal products — a focus on being local par excellence. A nutritionist is present at every meal to help the players with their daily diets.
Auditorium
With a capacity of 80 seats, this bright, multi-purpose space is used for the Club’s press conferences, around sixty of which are held each season. The auditorium can also accommodate staff and players.
Panoramic terrace
On the top floor of the building, a panoramic terrace offers a look over the whole site and has a breathtaking view of the Mediterranean Sea.
Solar panels are installed on this space, making the Performance Centre self-sufficent in the production of hot water and reducing its consumption of natural gas.
The Architect's Eye 👁️
Frédéric Genin, the master architect of the project:
“At the inception of any project, there lies an ambition—and often, the determination to bring a dream to fruition. I had the privilege of meeting Dmitry Rybolovlev, who harbored a desire to see his team train in a facility worthy of the most advanced centers in Europe. The site itself presented a unique challenge. This former quarry lacked the ideal dimensions to accommodate a building spanning over 12,000 square meters, alongside several training pitches.
The solution lay in challenging every established convention to optimize every single square meter and every patch of turf. Stretching lengthwise along a north-south axis, this space invited bold ideas and a design approach that was both resolute and uncompromising.
The true key to the design was positioning the building at the site’s northernmost boundary, thereby freeing up the remaining space and footprint exclusively for the training pitches. Situated in this manner, the building was now poised to meet every challenge: housing the extensive facilities dedicated to the first team while serving as a symbol of the new era the Club is striving to enter. We endowed the building with a distinct identity—one that is contemporary, instilling it with a true sense of modernity, yet also enduring, ensuring a timeless quality worthy of the world’s greatest sporting institutions.
The AS MONACO Performance Center now fulfills its true purpose: serving as the ultimate tool to enable the Club to achieve a level of performance commensurate with its ambitions, and to deliver sporting success and triumph to its supporters.