Bayern Munich: youngsters and women's players using the Skills.Lab, a digital indoor training space

Players from the FC Bayern Munich (Bundesliga) youth teams (from U16 upwards), reserve team and women's team (Flyeralarm Frauen-Bundesliga) have been taking part in individual sessions at the "Skills.Lab" since December 2020, a 320m2 indoor and digital space that allows match situations to be reproduced on giant screens, according to the German club on 09/03/2021.

"After 10 months of construction, FC Bayern Munich opened its new football simulator at the FC Bayern Campus in December 2020. The so-called Skills.Lab is designed in particular to record and evaluate the football-specific parameters of a player on a technical-cognitive basis. (...) Despite restrictions as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the players can already complete individual drills. In principle, programmes with up to four players at a time are possible on the artificial turf," said FC Bayern Munich.

"They (players) have to solve game situations and tasks that are projected onto screens by five high-performance projectors. Four fully automated ball machines form the heart of the facility, which offers more…