Also hosting the club's youth academy, known conceptually as La Fábrica, the facility replaced the old Ciudad Deportiva (Spanish: Sports City), which was in use until 2003.

Inaugurated in 2005,[1] the training centre consists of academy offices, equipment rooms, audio-visuals rooms, a strength and rehab centre, and medical (which consist of examination rooms, treatment rooms, additional rehab facilities and equipment, and a hydrotherapy center that includes hot and cool pools, a cold plunge, and a long but narrow resistance wave pool) and training facilities, as well as 12 and one third fields - three full-size synthetic turf fields and four full-size natural grass field for the youth, and for the first team, one third full-size synthetic turf field and three full-size natural grass fields.

It has 40 double rooms, each with a balcony and private bathroom, a common dining room, common rest areas, and classrooms for the academic education pertaining to the respective age groups that occurs in the afternoons.

[3] Players aged between 10 and 18 years reside in the youth team residential building.

[1] In the middle of the 2015–16 season, the Real Madrid basketball division was also provided with their own sports facilities at Valdebebas.