Dyrrah City Football Academy 

Nurturing Talents, Shaping Futures

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Vision

We aim to build an excellent training environment with a new sporting methodology and culture, which will boost the overall standard of football in the country. We want to create a football academy that attracts and develops young talents in the city of Durrës and allover Albania, by building the largest training center in the country.

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The academy will develop its activity based on the methodology and standards of one of the most successful clubs in the world, the Manchester City club. Our academy will exclusively implement the Manchester City Football School program, as the only academy with this methodology in Albania.

We will also develop a modern management structure for our players, supporting them throughout their football journey from the first steps in the academy to building a professional career at home and abroad.

Mission

Albania has a difficult history of sports development marked by decades of isolation, neglect and loss of credibility. Despite the infrastructural projects aimed at rebuilding the stadiums, training centers and academies still aren’t up to the standards for sports grounds of international level.

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Investment so far at club level has focused on adult football in the hope that it will raise the overall level, but without success. The culture of sports education at the academy level is still protected in inappropriate phenomena for the healthy development of children and young people.

We believe that through this project, we together with our partners can change the current situation by bringing innovation in terms of infrastructure, methodology and general sports culture.

We will offer young people new opportunities for a successful professional career based on meritocracy and access to the international market.

Objective

We are concentrating on three main pillars to achieve our goals and objectives: Infrastructure, Methodology and Management:

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  • First, we will build a modern infrastructure of the best international standards. To ensure this, we engaged two world-renowned partners, the architect “Marco Casamonti” in the development of the project idea and the “City Football Group” in defining the best standards based on international experience across the globe.

  • Secondly, with the support of the City Football Group, we have made it possible for the “Dyrrah City Football Academy” to have the "Football School" program of the “Manchester City team”. Our academy is the only one that has the exclusive right to develop this program in Albania. Also, it is one of the eight sporting organizations in the world in which this program is implemented. A good methodology needs to be supported by increasing human resources capacity of training and education. The training of academy players and coaches will be carried out by Manchester City's expert coaches according to the club's methodology and the scouting process will be carried out based on meritocracy under their supervision.

  • We will develop a management structure where players are under the supervision of Manchester City team coaches from the first steps of their development until they reach professional football status. We intended of achieving this by creating a Legal Department that will assist the players in drawing up profitable contracts by establishing contacts with clubs of different categories in the country and all around the world, utilizing the partnership with City Football Group for both scouting contacts, acquaintances and various experiences in negotiations.

    • Partners

    The key to the success of the initiative that we at “Dyrrah City Football Academy” have undertaken is the cooperation of many important partners with great potential.

    Our project includes the following main partners:

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    • The “Ministry of Education and Sports” as the founder and supervisor of the foundation's activities, as well as the owner of the ground where the activities will take place.


    • “City Football Group” is the most important partner in the role as advisor for building the infrastructure, structure of the academy and building a professional journey for the players of the academy. “Manchester City F.C” for developing the “Manchester City Football School Program” in favor of the foundation bringing its methodology and coaches.


    • “Durrës Yachts Marina” is an important financial partner that has supported the work of the foundation since the beginning.

     

    • The architect “Marco Casamonti”, after a great success in the design of the training center of “A.C.F. Fiorentina” in Firenze, has already engaged in the designing of the architectural project of the campus of our academy.

     

    • The “Municipality of Durrës” is an important partner in the development of the infrastructure connecting to the Academy campus.

     

    • “Dinamo City Football Club” as the partner that finances the construction of the Academy infrastructural project which creates increased opportunities for a professional journey for the “Dyrrah City Football Academy” players.

     

    • The “Albanian Football Association” which has shown its support, specifically in the partnership to help as many Albanian coaches as possible to benefit from the training, that will increase individual capacities, developed by the coaches of Manchester City.


    • The foundation also enjoys the support and consultancy of important state entities such as AIC and AKPT so that the entire investment is built on sound foundations and has longevity.


    A project with such an important and significant partner’s, has all the prerequisites not only to be successful but to bring a huge change in the entire Albanian football for generations to come.