National Sports Centre Papendal

Papendal is the home base of NOC*NSF and football club SBV Vitesse.

With over 20 building projects in 10 years time, the Olympic Training Centre is completely modernized.

The idea for a national High Performance Centre from which all the affiliated sports federations of the NSF could profit was introduced.

Nowadays around 550 athletes use the facilities of the Olympic Training Centre, 400 on a daily basis.

During summer the cold groundwater is used to cool building, while warmth is saved in the ground for heating during winter periods.

For example NOC*NSF, football club Vitesse, the Athletics Federation and depandanced of ROC Rijn IJssel en de HAN University of Applied Sciences.

Entrance of Olympic Training Centre Papendal
Coach Dieter Kollark giving instruction to German athlete Petra Lammert on shot put training, within the indoor facilities at the National Sports Centre Papendal