PALERMO CITY FOOTBALL ACADEMY

The Palermo CFA is located on the hills of Torretta, about 20 km from Palermo and a few minutes away from the “Falcone e Borsellino” airport, in almost 5 hectares of land which for over three centuries have been used for the cultivation of olive trees.

The Palermo FC Sports Centre, the first in over 120 years of history of the Rosanero Club, is made up of two natural grass pitches of the same size as the “Renzo Barbera” pitch (105 x 68 m), a natural grass pitch of a smaller size (32 x 32 m) dedicated to goalkeeper training, a Main Building and a Club House.

The new structure is the result of the City Football Group model for the creation of high-level sports infrastructures, which allows the sharing of best practices and the latest technologies and innovations throughout the world.

or this reason, after Manchester, Melbourne, New York and Montevideo, Palermo CFA is also designed to guarantee the best performances from players and staff, the application of successful training methodologies, the economic sustainability of the structure and the positive impact on the territory in terms of regeneration of the areas concerned, the creation of job positions for the local community and respect for the environment.

From a technological point of view, the Palermo CFA presents a special centralized IT system for managing the lighting, air conditioning, ventilation, access control and video surveillance (BMS) systems with a constant presence of technicians, maintenance workers and safety personnel.

The Palermo CFA, located in a valuable natural context, has
preserved the local flora by safeguarding, planting and relocating
over 400 trees and new plants typical of the Mediterranean scrub for
a total of 30,000 square metres of green areas.

A few meters from the new kitchen of the Club House, a “social
garden” was created, managed by Silvio Di Stefano, a passionate
disabled Rosanero supporter specialized in agricultural sciences. The Palermo CFA also presents a system involving renewable energy
provided by the solar panels on the roof which partially powers the
DHW boilers generating a power of 36,105 kW.