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QPR take over Chelsea training ground
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24 May 2005
The Loftus Road club, who at present share the Twyford Avenue facility in West Acton with London Wasps, will take over the lease of the site, which is owned by Imperial College. Rangers hope to confirm contractual details by early July.
The site, which is under the flight path of Heathrow, will be home to the club's academy as well as the firstteam squad.
Chelsea moved to a new state-of-the-art £20million complex at Cobham shortly before Christmas.
QPR chief executive Mark Devlin said: "This is an outstanding sporting facility and we are thrilled to be on the verge of moving the club's training set-up to Harlington.
"We are not surprised that we faced competition to secure the venue. It's a million miles away from the facilities we are using at Twyford Avenue."
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