City Football Academy Official Opening, 8 December 2014 03 Key Etihad Campus including City Football Academy 01. The Etihad Stadium 04. SuisseGas Bridge 09. Junior Academy Pitches 12. Media Zone Beswick Village Currently a 48,000 seat stadium Pedestrian bridge linking the CFA Including half pitch for A 120 seater conference centre/ (Manchester City Council led) 02 with six hospitality areas and more with the Etihad Stadium. goalkeeper training. theatre, including translation booths, than 3,000 parking spaces. It is green room and media studio space. 17. East Manchester Academy served by local bus services and 05. City Plaza 10. The Performance Centre a dedicated stadium tram stop. An area of up to 44,000 sq ft of Private first team training pitch, a full 13. Facilities 18. East Manchester potential commercial space. size indoor synthetic pitch (with seating Management Building Leisure Centre 02. City Square for up to 200). Home to the Academy Home to Facilities Management A fan zone comprising 06. Academy Stadium and the First Team Training Centre, both teams and including workshop, 19. Manchester Institute of approximately 8,000 sq ft of retail A 7,000 capacity stadium – comprehensive facilities housing a gym, laundry, administration/storage Health & Performance space, two external fan zone café 5,000 seated and 2,000 standing – with medical, therapy and training spaces, space and garages. bars and options for additional adjacent space for event hospitality. refectory, relaxation lounge, teaching 20. Connell Sixth Form College 01 concessions. Pitch to be used predominantly for rooms, pools and office/administration 14. First Team Pitches EDS, youth games and women’s space. There are also bedrooms 03. The Metrolink Tram Stop football. for Academy residents and first 15. EDS Pitches Trams to/from central Manchester team players. For the use of developing every 6/12 minutes, moving 07. Car Parking youth players. up to 500 passengers at a time. 11. City HQ 08. Senior Youth Pitches Home to the majority of the Club and 16. Woodland Fitness City Football’s operations, meeting Trail and Training Hill rooms and staff and visitor restaurant.
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MCFC’s contribution Environmental Economic benefits: Economic benefits: City to community facilities benefits Key CFA targets Further construction stats*
Span of new bridge between the Academy and the Etihad 80 190m Stadium, the length of two football pitches 70% 95 Football pitches in of Football pitches Football Acres Proportion of the Apprentices and the Academy in total which dedicated to youth trainees working development Of brownfield site workforce drawn from remediated Greater Manchester towards qualifications
Academy – Capacity of Academy Stadium for Elite Development squad teams, Time on CFA pitches each 80% Manchester City Women’s FC and 29 week allocated to local 2,000 Proportion of project 14,000+ Hours community use college, community and New mature trees brought value spent in the Hours of onsite In numbers 7,000 disability teams on site North West training for workers + 75% 5.5 Acres 450 Proportion of players in On CFA site donated to community Players training every week the Football Academy for Connell Sixth Form College and Of managed grass, 25% 34 in the Academy, from drawn from the Greater Beswick Community Hub wildflower meadow Proportion of employees Work experience Under 6’s to first team Manchester area (Leisure Centre and Swimming Pool) and landscape from East Manchester placements
78 80% Academy players £3m Proportion of water 10% studying at the Connell 40,000km Financial contribution needed to irrigate Proportion of people on 883 Sixth Form College Of artificial turf fibres in each of to new community pitches provided by site that were previously Contracts awarded or St Bede’s College the 5.5 Desso pitches facilities water tank under CFA unemployed to local companies £ *By summer 2014 “We are building a structure for the future, not just a team of all-stars”
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, September 2008