YB Campus: This is where the new training area is being built?

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– A football campus is to be built in the Bernese district

The BSC Young Boys, the canton of Bern and the municipalities of Ostermundigen and Bolligen want to implement the project by 2027.

Published today at 11:00 a.m

The football campus is to be built on this piece of land in Rörswil, on the municipal border between Bolligen and Ostermundigen (in the background).

Foto: Raphael Moser

The Rörswil area is a five-minute walk south of the RBS Bolligen train station. The piece of land lies exactly on the municipal border of Bolligen and Ostermundigen. A new regional football campus is to be built on this land, which belongs to the canton of Bern. YB Vice President Marcel Brülhart presented the project to the public on Tuesday morning together with government councilor Christoph Neuhaus (SVP) and the mayors of Ostermundigen and Bolligen.

Specifically planned are eight football fields, a stadium with 2,000 seats and a triple sports hall. If everything goes according to plan, the project will be completed as early as 2027. In order for the campus to be built one day, the spatial planning foundations must first be created.

Mayor of Bolligen René Bergmann, Mayor of Ostermundigen Thomas Iten, government councilor Christoph Neuhaus, YB vice-president Marcel Brülhart, YB-VR sports delegate Christoph Spycher and mayor of Bern Alec von Graffenried presented the project to the public.

Photo: Christian Pfander

YB will finance and operate the stadium and football fields. The association receives the land from the canton under building law. However, YB will not use the area exclusively. The campus should also be open to popular sports. Brülhart expects construction costs of around 40 million francs for his club.

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According to Christoph Neuhaus, the campus is a “generational project”. The newly created infrastructure is intended to largely remedy the increasingly painful lack of football pitches in the Agglo Bern.

Long planning phase

YB has been looking for a modern training infrastructure for around 20 years. “The envisaged solution is the long-awaited liberation in the Bern region, both for popular and elite sports,” says Christoph Spycher, VR delegate of the BSC Young Boys.

The club’s desired goal was previously to use the Grosse Allmend right next to the Wankdorf stadium. As part of the “Reorganization of Allmenden” project, the city of Bern is still considering the possibility of new training fields for YB, says Stapi Alec von Graffenried (GFL). However, there are no concrete plans yet.

Quentin Schlapbach is an editor in the Bern department. He completed a commercial apprenticeship and studied at the Swiss journalism school MAZ in Lucerne. More info@qscBZ

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