City Football Academy (Melbourne)
The City Football Academy, Melbourne is the training and administrative headquarters of professional football club Melbourne City FC, located in the Melbourne, Australia suburb of Bundoora.Features
The facility is owned by the Anglo-Arab football company City Football Group and is situated within the La Trobe University precinct. Constructed in late 2014 for approximately $15 million Australian dollars, the City Football Academy serves as the Asia-Pacific base for the City Football Group company and since its opening in February 2015 has provided tenant club Melbourne City with the premier facilities of any A-League club.
Among the facilities features are a world-class physiotherapy, sports rehabilitation and administrative building as well as a $2 million DESSO pitch, which is hybrid grass system where natural grassroots intertwine with artificial turf fibres and is able to withstand three times the wear of a normal pitch.
The facility is also the administrative and training hub of Melbourne City's youth team and its women's team. In December 2016, the club unveiled the Elite Women's Facility, an extension of the complex providing dedicated warm-up, training, locker and lecture rooms for the women's team.
