SPORTS

Football pitch ready by 2027

DT · Jul 24, 2026, 6:16 PM

Construction of the football pitch is in full swing at the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) oval inside Teachers Camp in Baguio City. Target completion date is around November. PSC chairman Patrick “Pato” Gregorio said they are proud of the project. In fact, they are constructing the same pitch in Naga City and Barotac Nuevo in Iloilo as part of their commitment to discover and develop more football players.

BAGUIO CITY — Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Patrick “Pato” Gregorio is confident that the football pitch being developed with the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) will be completed before the end of the year.

“The artificial football pitch will be completed by year-end,” Gregorio said.

“Once we finish the pitch here, I expect thousands of children to play.”

Gregorio said the pitch will be finished on time because it is artificial.

“Baguio (players) are very excited, even those from Manila and the Visayas and Mindanao,” Gregorio said.

“After it is laid out, we put in the drainage, then put in the artificial (turf),” he said.

With its completion, Gregorio is confident that Baguio football will never be the same, as he said they are also working on putting up bleachers around the facility, which opened its refurbished rubberized track oval in May. It was also where he announced the conversion of the field into a football pitch.

He said the PSC is coordinating with the Department of Education, which owns the Baguio Teachers Camp, to put up additional parking spaces to accommodate more visitors to the facility.