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| Location | Sportcity, Bradford-with-Beswick and Clayton, Greater Manchester |
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| Coordinates | 53°28′48″N 02°11′21″W / 53.48000°N 2.18917°W |
| Owner | Manchester City |
| Type | Sports, community, leisure |
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| Built | 2012–present |
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Etihad Campus is an area of Sportcity, Manchester which is mostly owned and operated by Manchester City. The campus includes the Etihad Stadium, the City Football Academy (CFA) training facility and club world headquarters,[1] and undeveloped land adjacent to both of these facilities. These two main portions of the campus site are linked by a 60-metre landmark pedestrian walkway/footbridge that spans the junction of Alan Turing Way and Ashton New Road. The term Etihad Campus embraces both the stadium – which already existed when the name was coined in 2010 – as well as much of the surrounding undeveloped land that existed at that time, although the term is also frequently used as a direct synonym for just the CFA portion.[2]
The development of the southeastern portion of the Etihad Campus site is focused on the regeneration of the Clayton Aniline site which consists of 80 acres (320,000 m2) of brownfield land. The initial phase of the campus development included the construction of the new Manchester City training facility which was completed and officially opened in December 2014.[3][4] Adjacent to the CFA facility is the Connell Sixth Form College – named after Anna Connell, the founder of St Mark's Gorton which later became Manchester City Football Club – which forms part of the Beswick Community Hub.[5] The construction of the college was jointly funded by Manchester City and Manchester City Council and it opened to receive its first students in August 2013.[6]
The Beswick Community Hub is being developed on 16 acres (65,000 m2) of the 80-acre site originally purchased by the football club in order to develop its CFA facility,[7] but like the footbridge linking the CFA to the Etihad Stadium,[8] the club has donated this portion of its land purchase back to the local community so that it can be jointly developed with Manchester City Council to form a southern gateway approach to the completed Etihad Campus. Also part of the jointly funded and developed Beswick Community Hub, across from it on the western side of Alan Turing Way, is the new Beswick Leisure Centre. The construction of the leisure centre is also complete and it opened to the public in October 2014.[9]
Two further pieces that were jointly funded and developed were the Manchester Institute of Health and Performance (MIHP),[10] currently under construction and for which the official opening is scheduled for early 2016,[11] and beyond the completion of the MIHP there are plans to develop commercial office space, shops and retail opportunities on the northwestern side of the hub.[7]
The transformation of East Manchester forms a key part of the city's core development strategy for the Manchester region from 2012 to 2027,[12] and likewise the scheme forms an integral part of Manchester City's aspiration to develop homegrown talent.[13]
In 2020, a 23,500 capacity indoor arena by the Oak View Group was proposed adjacent to the stadium, and which would be the largest in western Europe if built.[14] Work began on the Co-op Live in 2022 and will be complete in Spring 2024. An expansion of the stadium's North Stand, including the construction of a Hotel and covered fan zone is currently in progress and due to be completed in 2026.
- ^ "City Football Academy: Fly-through". Manchester City Football Club. 14 September 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2015 – via YouTube.
- ^ "City Football Academy: History". mcfc.com. Manchester City FC. 8 December 2014. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ "Premier League: Chancellor George Osbourne [sic] opens Manchester City Academy". skysports.com. Isleworth: Sky plc. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ "City Football Academy Opens". Manchester City FC. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2015 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Beswick Community Hub" (PDF). North West Construction Hub. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Todd (20 January 2015). "'Manchester City' college has students achieving their goals and heading for top of the table". Manchester Evening News. Manchester: M.E.N. Media. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Beswick Hub: Our Mission". mcfc.co.uk. Manchester City FC. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
the Club felt it was important to donate 16 of the site's 80 acres for further community use.
- ^ "Official opening of the community bridge connecting the Etihad Stadium to the soon-to-be-opened City Football Academy". mcfc.com. Manchester City FC. 26 November 2014. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ Williams, Jennifer (31 October 2014). "Beswick's new £9m leisure centre makes a splash as it opens its doors to the public". Manchester Evening News. Manchester: M.E.N. Media. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ Williams, Jennifer (5 February 2015). "New £18m sports science institute at Manchester City's Etihad complex is given go-ahead". Manchester Evening News. Manchester: M.E.N. Media. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ "Sports science and medicine institute takes Beswick Hub into pioneering second phase". manchester.gov.uk. Manchester: Manchester City Council. 5 February 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
MIHP is scheduled to open in early 2016.
- ^ "Manchester Core Strategy Development Plan Document" (PDF). Manchester City Council. 11 July 2012.
- ^ Linton, Deborah (2 May 2012). "Revealed: Manchester City plans to create home-grown stars as part of £170m Football Academy plan". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
- ^ "Manchester plans revealed for UK's largest indoor arena". BBC News. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 31 July 2020.