The heart of the
Today, more than 500 elite athletes use our high performance facilities every day. Papendal has been a training location for top-level sport since the 1970s. In 1971, the sports centre was officially opened by Princess Beatrix. In the years that followed, Papendal transformed significantly, with the past decade marking a period of remarkable development.
Train, live and
study in one place
TeamNL Centre Papendal is the largest of the five TeamNL centres in the Netherlands. But what exactly is a TeamNL centre?
Top 10 in the world
The ambition of NOC*NSF and the national sport federations is clear: the Netherlands belongs in the top 10 in the world. Achieving that level requires more than talent alone; it demands a strong high performance infrastructure. That is why National Training Centres (NTCs) and TeamNL centres were established. There are five TeamNL centres in the Netherlands, and Papendal is the largest. We provide an environment where talents and elite athletes can grow, a stable foundation that is essential for reaching the top.
TeamNL Centre Papendal
Experts rank Papendal as one of the five best training centres in the world. A centre to be proud of. We certainly are. And it is a truly unique place to train. More than half of all talents and elite athletes live at Papendal or close by, for example in one of the housing facilities of the TeamNL Centre. Together with various partners, we help athletes organise their time in the best possible way by bringing all essential facilities together within one square kilometre.
In the past, athletes often lost valuable hours travelling from home to school, from school to training, or to physiotherapy. Here, that time can be invested in extra training or recovery. Curious which sports train at Papendal? Twelve national sport federations run their fulltime training programmes with us, a total of thirty programmes and disciplines.
Home of
TeamNL
TeamNL represents the best athletes in the Netherlands, competing at the highest level 365 days a year. Ordinary people achieving extraordinary performances. Their mission: to inspire and connect the Netherlands through the achievements of TeamNL. Representing the country on the bike, on the field, on the track, in the water and everywhere sport is played, always striving to be the best in the world.
Want to follow all TeamNL athletes? Visit teamnl.org.