Train, compete and celebrate on your own private pitch in the Alps
High-altitude training conditions that benefit performance across all sports
Rent directly from the owner and keep the savings in your club budget
A training camp the team will actually look forward to: The best sports club accommodation in the Alps is not the one with the most facilities on paper – it is the one where the team arrives as a group and leaves as a unit. Our farm at 1,300 metres in the Ahrntal Valley, South Tyrol, offers sports clubs of every kind the combination of high-altitude training conditions, genuine outdoor space and self-catering independence that makes a training camp in the Alps truly effective. Whether you are a football club seeking a summer pre-season retreat, a cycling club planning an alpine endurance block, a climbing group using the Ahrntal's world-class rock, or any other sports team in search of a focused, budget group travel destination – this is your base.
The crisp mountain air at this altitude sharpens focus, improves endurance adaptation and – most importantly – reminds every athlete why they fell in love with their sport in the first place. There is no better backdrop for training than a view that stretches to the glaciers.
Your private training infrastructure: A farm with commercial kitchen, a private football pitch and open alpine meadows in sole occupancy: this combination is rarer than it sounds, and for sports clubs planning a holiday camp in the Alps, it changes everything. The football pitch sits directly on the property, surrounded by mountain views that no stadium can replicate. Morning sessions, afternoon technical work and evening small-sided games all happen within a few steps of the farmhouse – no minibus required, no neighbouring facilities to share.
The wide meadows surrounding the property extend the training environment beyond the pitch: sprints, agility drills, yoga warm-ups and team-building activities all find their natural space here. With no traffic noise and no urban distractions, the focus of every training session benefits from the same unhurried intensity that professional clubs travel to altitude camps to find.
Where value meets quality in the Alps: Budget group travel and high-quality accommodation in the Alps are rarely found in the same sentence. Here, they belong together. Because our farm is rented directly from the owner with no intermediary fees, the savings are real and meaningful – the kind that allow a club to invest in the trip itself rather than losing budget to agency margins. This budget group guest house approach has attracted sports clubs from across Europe for more than 40 years, and the returning teams speak for themselves.
The 17 rooms – each with private shower and WC, featuring bunk beds, single beds and double beds – accommodate squads of 15 to 68 athletes and support staff. The professional farm kitchen, scaled for large groups, means team nutrition is always taken seriously: meals prepared together, with quality ingredients, in a kitchen designed to handle the volumes that athletes actually need. The industrial dishwasher means the post-meal routine never cuts into recovery time.
A sports club home for every season: The alpine location of our training camp in the Alps makes it exceptional in both summer and winter. In the warm months, the hiking trails, via ferratas and outdoor climbing routes of the Ahrntal provide cross-training opportunities that no gym can replicate. When the snow arrives and the ski bus starts running from 1.2 kilometres away, the Klausberg and Speikboden ski resorts offer ski club accommodation and alpine club ski trips of the highest order. Weekend trip groups are particularly welcome – a self-catering weekend in the Alps, with the football pitch, party room and mountain trails all available from the Friday evening, is a team-bonding investment that pays back in the changing room all season long.
For sports clubs considering a corporate retreat farmhouse experience that blends performance with wellbeing, or a group house party room that doubles as an awards evening venue, the 4,000-watt sound system and laser show in the party room deliver the celebration your team deserves after the hard work is done.
Where the real team spirit is forged: After the final whistle of the last training session, the 15-minute walk to the Schwarzbachalm offers sports clubs something that no team-building consultant can manufacture: a shared journey through the quiet South Tyrolean evening to a mountain hut that smells of wood smoke, alpine cooking and the specific warmth that only a traditional alpine hut can generate. The gently lit path through the forest, the collective arrival at the hut, the sharing of food and stories around long wooden tables – this is where the individual athletes from earlier in the day become, simply, a team. For sports clubs choosing a training camp in the Alps with real soul, the Schwarzbachalm evening is the moment of the whole trip that nobody wants to see end.