Dubai Sports City
Dubai Sports City (DSC) is a 50-million square feet mixed use development that is the world’s first integrated purpose-built sports city. The development is being built around five major sports venues and features a series of major sports academy facilities.
Among the star attractions are the 25,000-seat capacity Dubai International Stadium which has staged more Twenty20 International cricket than any other venue in the world; an 18-hole championship golf course, The Els Club – Ernie Els’ first golf course design concept in the Middle East – that hosted the Asian Tour’s 2014 finale, the Dubai Open, together with its state-of-the-art Clubhouse including multiple dining options; the International Cricket Council (ICC) head office and the ICC Academy with its state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor facilities, including two floodlit full-sized ovals: the Dubai Sports City Sports Village that includes a full-sized FIFA-approved indoor football pitch (believed to be the only one if its kind in the UAE) within the Indoor Dome, which is home to Spanish Soccer Schools runs by former Real Madrid and Spain legend Michel Salgado and includes outdoor grass and artificial turf pitches; Fit Republik, with the only permanent fully Olympic-equipped gymnastic arena in the UAE and an Olympic-sized swimming pool; and the Butch Harmon School of Golf, with world-leading coaches and facilities.
The Victory Heights golf course villa community, set on the fairways of the prestigious Els Club golf course, is thriving and expanding with the addition of an eighth community, Fortuna Village, and also located in DSC are the Bradenton Preparatory Academy, an American curriculum school managed by GEMS Education that has been open since 2009, the Victory Heights Primary School and two Wonder Years Nursery schools.
Access to Dubai Sports City is now easier than ever along the Hessa Street extension and public transport includes the F29 bus that runs to and from the Mall of the Emirates.
