Dyrrah City Football Academy is a youth football academy based in Durrës, Albania. It focuses on developing young talent by providing structured education football for children of different age groups. The academy emphasizes technical skills, ability physical, teamwork and discipline. With experienced coaches, the academy provides an environment supportive and professional where young athletes can improve their soccer skills and follow their passion for sports. The program also aims to inculcate such values such as sportsmanship and dedication to its participants.

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.

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.

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.

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.