Melbourne City Football Club at Casey Fields
Melbourne City Football Club recently announced its relocation to Casey Fields. The Club has signed an agreement with the City of Casey and the City of Greater Dandenong. City in the Community, Melbourne City’s charitable arm, will also move their head office to Casey Fields.
The Etihad City Football Academy (CFA) will sit within the Casey Fields Football Centre of Excellence. It will feature:
- an elite training pitch
- four full-sized floodlit pitches
- a two-story elite performance headquarters building
- space for a 4,000-capacity mini-stadium to be created as part of a future stage three expansion.
The new CFA will be the centre of the club's academy, schools and community work. It will also include the City of Casey's grassroots football and community programs.
Some of the new facilities are already available for use. The new CFA will be fully completed in early 2022.
For more information see our media release.
Casey's premier outdoor sports facility
Casey Fields is a 88 hectare site in Cranbourne East developed by the City of Casey as the premier outdoor sports facility in Melbourne's south east. It's easily accessible via Berwick-Cranbourne Road in Cranbourne East and is hard to miss with its sporting ovals, playground and wide open spaces.
There is plenty to see and do at Casey Fields, from playing on the playground to having a picnic or BBQ.
The major community facility is also home to a number of sporting clubs from different sporting codes.
The City of Casey has invested in upgrading Casey Fields to allow it to continue to provide the community with a major destination for sport and art. See: Casey Fields Master Plan.
Sports and activities at Casey Fields
You can join in on lots of sports and activities at Casey Fields, including:
- fishing
- cycling
- BMX
- walking tracks
- cricket
- football
- netball
- rugby league
- tennis
- athletics
- Human Powered Vehicles (HPV)
- football (soccer)
- playspace and village green
Find out more about the sports and activities available at Casey Fields.
Casey Fields caters for most major sports codes as well as lots more fun activities.
The City of Casey, and one of the oldest and greatest football clubs in the world, the Melbourne Football Club, are working together to jointly promote and showcase sporting opportunities and the benefits of an active lifestyle throughout Casey’s schools, sporting clubs and community groups.
Find out how Casey Fields began and where its future is heading through the strategic Casey Fields Masterplan.
When visiting Casey Fields, you will notice two public art installations at the facility - one titled 'Team Work' and another titled 'Field Landings'. Each has their own story - you can read about them here.