A-League side Brisbane Roar is leaving Brisbane, with the club to "set up its new headquarters, training base and football academy in Logan," according to Cameron Atfield of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Roar CEO David Pourre said that the club would move its administration and operations divisions from Perry Park at Bowen Hills to the Logan Metro Sports Precinct at Heritage Park "within weeks." Logan City Council said that it committed A$9M ($6.7M) to the facility, with Football Brisbane, "which would also move its base of operations to Heritage Park," to contribute A$300,000 ($223,150). Pourre said that the long-term plan "was to set up the Roar Football Academy on the site." Pourre said, "This is the first time the club has ever had a multi-million dollar investment committed to providing such wonderful infrastructure for football." Pourre said that the site would "include training fields, with at least one the same dimension as the club's playing base at Suncorp Stadium, along with change rooms and training facilities." The club "would continue to train at Griffith University until the new facilities were ready" (SMH, 3/1).
