CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) -- An upstart professional football league has chosen a site in Casa Grande for a $20 million training facility that will serve three of the league's six original teams for the inaugural 2009 season.

The United Football League plans to break ground on the training site next to the Francisco Grande Hotel & Golf Resort in January.

League officials say they plan to build eight playing fields, four field houses, locker rooms, a training and rehabilitation center, office space and other amenities.

The site is expected to be ready for the opening of the league's first training camp in late summer.

The facility could also be used by area athletic teams and other interests while not in full use by the UFL.

The Francisco Grande site hosted professional sports teams starting in 1959, when Horace Stoneham developed the hotel as a spring training site for the San Francisco Giants.

After the Giants moved, the California Angels used the facility from 1982 to 1984. Then the old USFL's Arizona Wranglers and the Denver Gold used the facility for two years.