A football-first tour where the venue itself is the experience.
Set within 330 acres of Staffordshire countryside, St George’s Park is where English football’s best come to work and for two to three days, it becomes your team’s training base.
Your group will take part in professional coaching sessions delivered by St George’s Park coaches. Step behind the scenes into spaces normally reserved for England players, and stay at the same hotel used by England squads during training camps. Add a well-matched friendly fixture, and your players get the full cycle: learn it in training, then prove it in a game.
Every tour is tailor-made by our team, with the planning, safety standards and 24/7 support that schools and clubs have trusted for decades.
Tour Overview
St George’s Park is The FA’s National Football Centre. The world-class national training centre where every England team prepares, develops and performs at the highest level. On a MasterClass tour to St George’s Park, your group doesn’t just visit. You train there.
The Play Like the Pride Experience puts your players on the pitches of the national football centre, training in the same world-class environment where the Lionesses and Three Lions prepare, following coaching sessions inspired by the national team programme.
An elite football environment made genuinely accessible for schools and clubs, closer to home, easier to plan, and built entirely around your players’ development.
Tour Details
- Available | September – June
- UK · U8 to Adult
- All group types
Tour highlights
Put your skills to the test in a well-matched fixture
Train at St George’s Park, The FA’s National Football Centre
Professional coaching sessions inspired by the national team programme
Experience the standards, surfaces and setting of elite football
Stay overnight at the on-site Hilton, just like the pros
Walk in the footsteps of players like Harry Kane and Leah Williamson
Train, Stay and Prepare Like the Pros
13
Pitches
330
Acres
3G
Indoor Pitch
1
Wembley Replica
The football experience
Your group trains at St George’s Park in Burton-upon-Trent, the FA’s national football centre and the base every England side uses, from the seniors down to the youth teams.
Thirteen pitches sit across 330 acres, including a full-size indoor 3G and a replica of the Wembley surface, built to the exact dimensions and grass mix of the national stadium.
Groups stay on site at the Hilton, the same hotel England squads use during training camps. That means no daily transfers, no travel time between the pitches and the rooms, and a genuine sense of being inside the setup rather than visiting it.
Train at England’s national football centre
Your group trains at St George’s Park in Burton-upon-Trent, the FA’s national football centre and the base every England side uses, from the seniors down to the youth teams. Thirteen pitches sit across 330 acres, including a full-size indoor 3G and a replica of the Wembley surface, built to the exact dimensions and grass mix of the national stadium.
Groups stay on site at the Hilton, the same hotel England squads use during training camps. That means no daily transfers, no travel time between the pitches and the rooms, and a genuine sense of being inside the setup rather than visiting it.
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Well-matched fixtures
Coaching teaches it. A match proves it. Add a friendly, well-matched fixture against local opposition to your tour and give your players the chance to put what they’ve learnt straight into a competitive game.
As with every MasterClass tour, we work hard to match fixtures to the level of your touring team, so games are competitive, fair and genuinely useful for development, whatever standard you play at.
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More than just football
Coaching is delivered by St George’s Park’s own staff, working to the FA’s coaching framework, the same methodology used to develop players and coaches across the England pathway. Sessions run for 90 minutes and are built around a clear theme, then adapted to the level of your squad so a development side and a first team get different work from the same programme.
Because the site is a performance centre rather than a training pitch, the day can extend beyond the session itself. Groups can add a hydrotherapy recovery session in the same suite the professionals use, giving players a taste of the standards of a full-time football environment.
Start your enquiryWhy choose this MasterClass football tour?
Some tours are about where you go. This one is about what your players become while they’re there.
Sample Itinerary
1 Morning: Depart school
2 Afternoon: Play Like the Pride Experience
3 Evening: Stay on site at the Hilton at St George’s Park
1 Morning: St George’s Park coaching session
2 Afternoon: Stadium tour (Villa Park, WBA or Wolves) or friendly fixture
3 Evening: Stay on site at the Hilton at St George’s Park
1 Morning: Depart hotel — Alton Towers
2 Afternoon: Alton Towers
3 Evening: Arrive back at school
Stay on site at the Hilton at St George’s Park
Stay at the same base used by England teams during training camps. Comfortable, modern rooms combined with a professional sporting environment give students a true “live like the pros” experience.
Bed & breakfast, half-board and full-board options are available to suit your group’s budget.
Customise your tour
Make the tour your own with these optional add-ons and suggestions
St George’s Park Hydrotherapy
Recover like the pros in the St George’s Park professional hydrotherapy suite.
Stadium tour
Keep it football-focused with a visit to a nearby club.
Well-matched fixtures
Add a well-matched, friendly fixture against local opposition.
Alton Towers
Enjoy an adrenaline-fuelled day at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, the UK’s largest theme park and waterpark.
Who is this tour for?
This tour is designed for school and club football groups from U8 through to adult teams, with an ideal group size of 12–30 players (minimum 12) and staff ratios of 1:10.
It’s a particularly strong fit for:
- School teams looking for an inspiring, easy-to-run domestic tour that delivers meaningful learning beyond the classroom. Helping students build confidence, teamwork, resilience and leadership.
- Clubs and academies wanting elite-environment coaching to lift standards and ambition
- Girls’ teams inspired by the Lionesses, training in the same environment where England’s players are made
- Squads building team culture: Pre-season, tour weekends or reward trips with genuine development value
- Groups newer to touring who want a manageable first tour without compromising on wow-factor
What our customers say about us
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We would highly recommend Masterclass as a sports tour organiser. Staff at all phases went above and beyond to make the trip a huge success. This allowed our students to create lifelong memories and enabled staff to build positive relationships that we will take into school.
The Derby High School
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I couldn’t recommend MasterClass more. James was great at organising and communicating details regarding the trip beforehand and throughout. The other Masterclass tour staff and hotel staff were also very friendly and informative. Students had a great variety of activities to participate in with a good balance between sports and other activities.
St Albans Girls School
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The organisation of the trip is excellent. All of the staff at MasterClass are extremely helpful and friendly. Nothing is ever too much trouble and any issues are dealt with immediately.
Cardinal Hume Catholic School
Ready to Play Like the Pride?
Speak to our MasterClass team on 020 3617 7983 or request a quote below and give your players a football experience they’ll never forget.
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