New State-of-the-art Pitch at The Valley
Charlton Athletic are delighted to confirm that a new state-of-the-art pitch will be installed at The Valley ahead of the 2024/25 season.
The hybrid-stitched Desso pitch will have a much greater durability, meaning it will be in better condition throughout the campaign.
As part of the investment, all women’s first-team league fixtures will be played at The Valley from the 2024/25 season.
The pitch is being paid for by a six-figure investment from the club’s ownership group and a £750,000 grant from the Premier League Stadium Fund, which awards capital grants to clubs to support improvement of their stadium facilities for players, supporters and officials.
Work begins on the pitch in May to ensure everything is in place for the men’s first-team’s final pre-season friendly on Saturday, August 3rd.
Charlton Managing Director James Rodwell said: “We’re delighted that our men’s and women’s first-teams will be playing on a new state-of-the-art pitch at The Valley for the 2024/25 season.
“Our vision for Charlton is for the club to become the most cohesive and sustainable community-driven club in the UK competing at an elite level. For us to reach that level, we need to continue to drive standards on and off the pitch.
“This investment brings our playing surface at The Valley to that elite level. We’re grateful to the club ownership for supporting the vision financially and for the investment from the Premier League Stadium Fund.”
Louise McGing, General Manager of the Women’s team, added: “This is a game-changing moment in the history of Charlton Athletic Women. The Valley is a fantastic stadium and for us to be playing every league match here from next season gives us the perfect platform to continue to grow.”
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Fab. Now just add state of the art Charlton Athletic first teams to play on it.59
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Ownership contribution is somewhere between £500-750k19
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What’s not to like about this.24
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Great news to read.4
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https://youtu.be/ETrfhSVHOtY?si=ktYkEL_SpnsmU7x6
Looks like it's going to be the same as the Wembley pitch. As well as some club in Surrey...2 -
All sounds very positive, and will be good to get the Women's team playing at The Valley as well, so well done the SMT and ownership on getting this done...6
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Can anyone explain how the money is invested? Eg does it lay the foundation for future seasons or is it all swallowed up in one go?0
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Everyone in the Premier League has a Desso pitch, so what's left to fix? Floodlights?2
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Good news. The current pitch has held up pretty well actually considering all the rain, with just a couple of bare patches near the CE. Clearly it's not good enough to play women's games there every week though.0
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Nothing wrong with the old pitch. Not a lot of football played on it this season.23
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Positive step forward, although personally I Ioved watching teams play on the old mud heaps of the 70s.10
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Seems to be great news. Wonder if they will fit a boiler at the same time for the existing underground heating system or will they have to replace that as well.2
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Brilliant0
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For such a long time we’ve seen the heart if not the soul ripped out of the club. It looks like we might just be at the beginning of the repair process. Things like this pitch initiative show commitment and forward thinking. Something we’ve not had for a long time. Of course a football club is all about what happens on match days so the summer will tell us much about that too. I’m encouraged.24
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Rothko said:Everyone in the Premier League has a Desso pitch, so what's left to fix? Floodlights? 1st eleven1
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I’m sure the away team will enjoy playing on the state of the art pitch too…unfortunately.0
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Just worth noting. When the current Ipswich owners came in, they did all this type of stuff, strengthening the foundations and infrastructure. They then built a team to go with it, and as they say the rest is history.Positive stuff and as many have already said the indications for next season are there.17
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It’s obviously good news but what does this mean ‘the most cohesive and sustainable community-driven club in the UK’? 🤔1
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Interesting dynamic on the size of the grant versus what we put in 750 v 100.No brainer I guess.Perhaps the 100k is further offset by staging the Women’s fixtures at the Valley instead of elsewhere with associated cost.As long as the pitch holds up it’s all good news.0
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all very positive and thank you premier league as well1
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It's not £100k, can't be, at a minimum you're looking at around £500kvalleynick66 said:Interesting dynamic on the size of the grant versus what we put in 750 v 100.No brainer I guess.Perhaps the 100k is further offset by staging the Women’s fixtures at the Valley instead of elsewhere with associated cost.As long as the pitch holds up it’s all good news.0 -
3/4 of a million in grant money. Well done to the club for taking advantage on that2
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Nothing to celebrate, word will get around among the local pigeon community, and more of the fuckers will be lording it around on the pitch in search of these premium seeds.
These lot can't get anything right.29 -
Refuse to be impressed until they introduce a state-of-the-art carvery at each food kiosk.30
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Does it come with a boiler to connect up to our state of the art under soil heating pipes Roland had installed?4
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If foxes cant bury your left over scoff in plastic pitches expect another redundancy!
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Will undersoil heating be fitted as well?0
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What is a carvery? LolMacronate said:Refuse to be impressed until they introduce a state-of-the-art carvery at each food kiosk.14
