Dubai Sports City

Located between the Emirates road and the Autodrome, Sports City will have easy access to all of Dubai’s major attractions. Dubai Sports City, the world's first purpose-built sports city, will incorporate state-of-the-art sporting venues and academies along with residential and commercial developments. These will be combined to offer a world class venue for sports events and activities at all levels with a residential lifestyle unrivalled in the region and possibly the world. Indeed, by building Sports City, the developers of this huge project have in mind hosting the Olympic Games of 2020.

Dubai Sports City is the world’s first purpose-built sports city. Set on 50 million square feet of land within the Dubailand development, Dubai Sports City will feature four magnificent stadiums: a 60,000 seat multi-purpose outdoor stadium, a 25,000 capacity cricket stadium, a 10,000 seat multi-purpose indoor arena, and a hockey field venue for 5,000 spectators. In addition, Dubai Sports City will be the venue for Ernie Els’ first golf course design in the Middle East: an 18-hole championship course named The Dunes which will be the centrepiece of a luxury golf residential community called Victory Heights.

Dubai Sports City will host the first purpose-built Manchester United Soccer Schools facility in the world as well as the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) own Global Cricket Academy, a David Lloyd Tennis Academy and the first Butch Harmon School of Golf outside the United States. The academies area will also house a 3,000 m² gymnasium and an Olympic-length swimming pool.

In addition to the sporting facilities, Dubai Sports City will boast all of the residential and commercial developments expected in a purpose-built city, including international schools, world-class medical facilities, hotels, and leisure opportunities. The first phase of Dubai Sports City, which will include the golf course, sports academies and other facilities, as well as the opening phase of the Victory Heights residential community, will be completed by 2008.