PREMIER LEAGUE

FACILITIES
Category 2 A minimum of two classrooms which shall each:
• contain sufficient desks for 20 students;
• contain 20 computers with internet access.
At least one of the classrooms must conform in all respects
with any requirements for classrooms issued by the
Department for Education and Skills.
Categories 3 and 4 Access for Academy Players and Trialists to a study area
large enough to hold 20 people and which contains at
least 20 computers with internet access.
Note: in Category 3 and 4 Academies, this may also be used
as the team meeting room provided that the timetabling of
lessons in the classrooms allows.
Guidance
Flexibility will be accorded to a Club’s provision of classrooms depending on the number of Academy Players that are
engaged in each Training Model.
Clubs which operate a Category 3 or Category 4 Academy who have in place an artificial surface which does not meet
the requirements of such a pitch as defined in Rule 1.10 may continue to use such a pitch until the end of its natural life.
Thereafter however, they must use a pitch which complies with the definition.
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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT RULES