Novogorsk-Dynamo Training Base

The pitch here doesn't belong to a club so much as a country. In May and June 2018, this was where Stanislav Cherchesov's Russia squad trained in the weeks before hosting the World Cup.

Day to day, though, it answers to Dynamo Moscow — the first team, the women's side, and the youth academy all pass through, and it's the youth fixtures that fill the calendar. The 790-seat stadium, heated artificial turf under a sponsorship tie to VTB, hosted a rare recorded crowd of 225 on 25 May 2019 for a youth match against Arsenal Tula.

The base itself grew in two stages, finished in 2005 and again in 2008, with the formal opening on 14 May that year — separate, and often confused with, the older Dynamo hockey facility built on the same patch of Novogorsk back in the early 1980s. Three pitches make up the working ground: two natural, one artificial with undersoil heating, the latter doubling as the main arena for M-League youth fixtures. There's no stage for concerts and no home crowd to speak of in the usual sense — this is a training address that occasionally opens its gates.