Nothing seems impossible for the steady and hyper-active Dubai developers whose work has won the emirate the title of ‘the city of superlatives’. Adding strength to this title is the Dubai Sports City project - the world’s first purpose-built residential sports city. Sports fanatics view this unique development as a dream-come-true. This $4bn mega project offers state-of-the-art facilities for not on only playing and watching, but also for learning, which is good news sports newbies.
Dubai Sports City spans 50 million square feet of land within the Dubailand development. The main attraction of the gigantic project is an 18-hole golf course, meticulously designed by golf legend Ernie Els himself. The Ernie Els Club, opened recently amid great celebrations, is the first venue of the project to be completed. The club, Els’s first in the Middle East, is considered his finest work to date, by golf lovers and by himself too.
But golf is just one of the various sports facilities that Dubai Sports City houses. Catering to all sports tastes, the City offers: a 25,000 seat cricket stadium; a 5,000 seat hockey stadium; a 10,000 seat indoor arena for hard court sports and ice skating competitions; and topping it off, a huge 60,000 seat outdoor stadium for football, rugby and field events.
As for sports neophytes, Dubai Sports City will boast world-renowned sports academies including the world’s first purpose-built Manchester United Soccer School, International Cricket Council’s own ICC Global Cricket Academy, the first Butch Harmon School of Golf outside the US, the first-of-its-kind World Hockey Academy and a David Lloyd Tennis Academy.
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