FSM Stadium Development
Updated And Expanded Player Dressing Rooms At Kia Oval For Surrey CCC
After a multi-million pound redevelopment, Surrey County Cricket Club has unveiled newly expanded, state-of-the-art player dressing rooms at the Kia Oval.
The new facilities expand existing dressing room and team facilities in the Bedser Stand. The new facilities house personalised dressing rooms for both the men’s and women’s team and shared facilities that include nutrition stations and physiotherapy suites, all for use in domestic and international fixtures.
Both men’s and women’s dressing room suites include expanded players’ dressing rooms, with a dedicated seat and locker for each player, new storage areas required for kit and equipment and modernised showers.
The suites also include a lounge space with views of the pitch that serve as a relaxation area, coaching area and informal space for player nutrition; an office; two smaller changing areas for coaching and support staff; a physiotherapy room; and toilets. Shared facilities include a players’ dining room with dedicated kitchen.
The new layout expands the space dedicated to player and team facilities to 740 square metres, including reconfiguring of existing spaces and extended by approximately three metres towards the pitch.
For double-header fixtures, the men’s and women’s teams will each use their respective dressing room areas with alternative provisions made for the visiting sides, whilst for standalone matches, the home Surrey side will be in their dressing with the opposition in the alternate space.
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The design and construction process – led by renowned sports architecture
and design practise, Populous, with detailing
and construction work carried out by the Populous EMEA Design & Build team – followed extensive consultation with representatives of Surrey CCC team management, to ensure that the refurbished and extended dressing rooms met and exceeded their needs.
Consultation sessions were also held with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) around meeting and exceeding existing standards for high profile venues, while looking ahead to how dressing rooms for major matches are expected to be used in the future. Each set of proposals was benchmarked against the ECB standards as well as the best examples of dressing room areas at other high‑profile venues in the UK across different sports.
The brief also ensured that the improved facilities support female coaches who may be working alongside male players and vice versa, aligning to the ECBs 2020-2024 strategy to transform women’s cricket by increasing the number of women in leadership roles in cricket and increasing the representation of women in the cricket workforce.
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