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 combine 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.
Construction of Dubai Sports City is well under
way and with the first sports facilities and homes being completed
by late 2007, the future of sport and the future of living is nearer
than you might think.
The City of Firsts
Dubai Sports City is a destination of enduring spirit
and passion, a place whose heart and soul is expressed in rich iconography,
timeless rituals and modern heroes. A place where sport is life,
champions live, and legends are made. With over 50 million square
feet of sporting venues, academies, exceptional homes, cultural
activities and retail opportunities, Dubai Sports City is inspired
by the greatest cities in the world, but at its heart beats the
very essence of sport.
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 stadia:
a 60,000 seat multi-purpose outdoor stadium, a 25,000 capacity cricket
stadium, a 10,000 seat multi-purpose indoor arena, and a field hockey
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 square metre gymnasium and an olympic-length swimming pool.
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