Address | 369 Casey Fields Boulevard Cranbourne East Victoria, Australia |
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Location | Casey Fields, Cranbourne East |
Coordinates | 38°07′27″S 145°18′34″E / 38.12417°S 145.30944°E |
Owner | Melbourne City FC (City Football Group) |
Type | Training facility |
Capacity | 1,500 (Pitch No. 4) 4,000 (Mini-stadium, proposed) |
Construction | |
Broke ground | 2020 |
Built | 2022 |
Tenants | |
Melbourne City Football Club |
The Etihad City Football Academy, Melbourne, named after the Etihad airline and located in Melbourne, Australia, was the training and administrative headquarters of professional football club Melbourne City FC. The club was previously based at in the northern Melbourne suburb of Bundoora between 2015 and 2022, and later relocated to the Casey Fields sports precinct in Cranbourne East, south-eastern suburb of Melbourne.
In December 2020, Melbourne City officials announced the club would move training and administration facilities to Casey Fields in Melbourne's South-East. In 2019, the football facilities at Casey Fields included four floodlit pitches and a one-story administration building. The club announced that, in conjunction with the City of Casey, it would add an elite training tablet pitch, expand the size of the administration building to two storeys and leave space for potential future construction of a 4,000 capacity boutique stadium. The club's youth and women's teams began moving into the facility in early 2021, and the senior men's team commenced pre-season training later that year. Construction of the additional facilities commenced in July 2021 and concluded in mid-2022.[2][3][4][5][6]