Ipswich will look to go as far as regularly monitoring their players’ urine in a bid to gain a competitive edge over their Premier League rivals, with the club unveiling some of the key upgrades made on their new £30million training facility. The club broke ground on the structure just under 12 months ago with a view to levelling up for its senior men’s and women’s teams, and attracting and developing top talent for their academy. The Playford Road training ground was last renovated in the early 2000s, and upon the club’s Premier League promotion at the start of the 2024-25 season, it was out-of-date and not fit for purpose, with players split between the original buildings and temporary Portakabins. Now, the Tractor Boys will start their next tilt at staying in the top flight from more luxurious surroundings, with a raft of new technology to help them adapt to the step up from the Championship. According to the East Anglian Daily Times, the club have invested in technical urinals, which will see players sign in before using them so that analysts can monitor samples to check dehydration levels. Players will have access to boot drying technology used by ski resorts in Austria, and a bone density scanner has been flown in from the United States to allow medicals to be done on site. Ipswich Town’s new £30m training facility played a role in tempting Gary O’Neil to join the clubRenovations to player areas include a new hydrotherapy pool, hyperbaric chambers and cold plunge for recovery, a state-of-the-art gym, and an altitude training room. The club’s chairman Mark Ashton told the outlet that he believes the new Playford Road ground is without compare. ‘There’s nothing like this in east of England,’ Ashton said. ‘You probably have to go as far as Tottenham to find something on this level.’Is it helping attract players? For sure. I remember standing with Liam Delap in a muddy field here trying to sell him the vision. Now I’m not having to tell prospective signings that there’s something going to come two years down the line, maybe, if we get planning permission.’Ashton also added that the ground had helped him pitch the new manager’s job to Gary O’Neil, who joined the club from Strasbourg earlier in the summer. Ipswich have been scaling up their ambitions since 2021, when the club was taken over by US investment fund ORG. Additional investors Three Lions and Clara Vista Partners have since come on board with investments under Portman Holdings LLC, which became the new majority shareholder in the club in December 2025. In a bid to ensure that their latest Premier League spell does not end as sharply as their last turn, Ipswich have also dipped into the transfer market this summer. O’Neil has tempted two of his former Strasbourg players – Julio Enciso and Abdoul Ouattara – to Portman Road in a deal thought to be worth up to £47.3m, with the club previously signing ten players since the transfer window opened.