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Melbourne City s head of legal May Low, head of infrastructure Ian Wilson and chief executive Brad Rowse with Casey CEO Glenn Patterson, Casey city design and construction manager Trevor Griffin and city planning director James Collins at the sod-turning at Casey Fields.
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Freshly crowned as A-League premiers, Melbourne City FC will start embedding itself at its new home in coming months.
Admin staff for the champion club will start moving into the precinct in August.
Meanwhile, the club’s A-League and four-time W-League premiership teams start pre-season training in August and September respectively.
The academy teams started playing and training at Casey Fields in February.
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Melbourne City FC to move into Casey Fields
Melbourne City Football Club (FC) today announced its relocation to Casey Fields after signing a Heads of Agreement with the City of Casey and the City of Greater Dandenong.
The Etihad City Football Academy (CFA) will sit within the Casey Fields Football Centre of Excellence, featuring an elite training pitch, four full-sized floodlit pitches and a two-story elite performance headquarters building, with space for a 4,000-capacity mini-stadium to be created as part of a future stage three expansion.
The new CFA is partly constructed with stage one of the community and academy facilities already complete. The four full-sized floodlit pitches and single-story building are available for immediate use, and will be the centre of the club’s academy, schools and community work, as well as the City of Casey’s grassroots football and community programs.