Sportschule Wedau is a large three star sports hotel and training centre inside Sportpark Duisburg, combining about four hundred beds, extensive indoor and outdoor sports facilities and a full conference and catering infrastructure that regularly hosts DFB youth tournaments and national and international federations for training camps, seminars and events.
Rooms
Accommodation is arranged mainly in a modern residential tower and adjoining buildings with around four hundred sleeping places, functioning both as Germany’s largest sports school and the largest hotel style property in Duisburg, with single, double, family and multi bed rooms that can host entire squads and big conference groups on site. The hotel is rated three stars and recent refurbishments have produced simple but modern rooms, typically around sixteen square metres, with air conditioning, free Wi Fi, desk, flat screen television, in room safe and private bathroom with shower, while some units add a balcony and lake views over the regatta course. A number of accessible rooms and multi bed rooms with bunk beds are configured for athletes with disabilities and their support staff, and training camp packages usually place players in double or multi bed rooms with coaches and staff in singles.
Sports
The core of the facility is football and ball sports. The campus includes six full size natural grass football pitches of about one hundred by seventy metres, plus one full size artificial turf pitch of the newest generation, one small sided artificial pitch and one mini pitch, alongside the Stadion am Waldhaus with natural grass and a grandstand for about three hundred and twenty seated spectators plus standing areas. Indoor team sports are served by an indoor football hall with parquet floor, a large triple multi purpose hall with a tribune for roughly five hundred spectators, a dedicated futsal hall with modern PU sports floor and further halls used for handball, basketball, volleyball, badminton and other court sports. Combat and technical sports have their own spaces, including a judo hall, a dance sport hall with mirror wall, two gymnastics halls with soft mat or parquet floors and mirrors, and a strength and conditioning area built around an eighty five square metre weight room and additional fitness rooms. Outdoors there is at least one sand beach volleyball court and several tennis courts within the campus, and the sports school is officially recognised as a federal and state performance centre for more than twenty sports, which regularly use the facilities for selection tournaments, national team camps and education programmes.
Beyond the immediate grounds, teams can step straight into the wider Sportpark Duisburg, which surrounds the sports school and includes the Regattabahn rowing and canoe course, the swimming stadium, an ice arena, waterski facility and a high ropes park, all within about five minutes on foot, so that water sports, cross training and team building activities can easily be incorporated into camp schedules.
Dining
Catering is operated in house and is set up to feed large groups. A spacious main dining hall serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, usually buffet style, with sports oriented menus and vegetarian or vegan options when requested, while the kitchen team can design tailored buffets, plated menus, finger food, sandwich platters and coffee and cake breaks for events and seminars. For training camps, agencies routinely book packages that include two or more nights with full board, and the catering team can adapt portions and composition for different age groups and competition phases.
Meetings
Sportschule Wedau also functions as a full scale conference and education centre. In the main meeting tract there are three panorama boardrooms on the fifteenth floor for about twenty to thirty five people, three seminar rooms for twenty to thirty participants, five group rooms for ten to sixteen, six further meeting rooms for eight to fifty six, three lecture halls seating roughly forty to one hundred and two large conference and exhibition rooms that can each host up to about one hundred and ninety nine guests, plus additional classrooms. All meeting rooms can be equipped with modern communication and presentation technology on request and are widely used for DFB courses, national and international federation seminars, corporate off sites, school trips and association congresses, often in combination with overnight stays and on site sports activities.
Stadion am Waldhaus, natural grass football pitch with tribune and about 320 seats plus standing terraces
6 full size natural grass football pitches of about 100 by 70 metres
1 full size artificial turf football pitch of the newest generation
1 small sided artificial turf football pitch for training games
1 mini artificial turf pitch for technical drills and youth training
1 indoor football hall with parquet floor, approximately 40 by 24 metres
1 large triple multi purpose sports hall of about 46 by 22 metres with tribune for around 500 spectators
1 dedicated futsal hall of about 40 by 20 metres with modern PU sports floor
1 judo hall of about 29 by 23 metres with tatami area
1 dance sport hall of about 29 by 24 metres with mirror wall
1 gymnastics hall with soft mat floor and mirror wall of about 11 by 13 metres
1 gymnastics hall with parquet floor and mirror wall of about 10 by 14 metres
1 weight room of about 85 square metres for strength training
additional fitness rooms for conditioning and group workouts
at least 1 sand beach volleyball court on site
outdoor tennis courts within the sports school grounds
direct access on foot to the wider Sportpark Duisburg facilities including regatta course, running routes, swimming stadium, ice arena and high ropes park
On site three star sports hotel with about 400 beds in single, double, family and multi bed rooms suitable for teams, officials and conference guests
large main dining hall capable of serving full board to large groups
in house catering service for buffets, plated menus, finger food, platters, coffee and cake and special sports menus
three panorama boardrooms on the top floor for strategy sessions and executive meetings
three seminar rooms for workshops and coach education
five group rooms for breakouts and team meetings
six additional meeting rooms across a range of sizes for eight to fifty six participants
three lecture halls for forty to one hundred participants for classroom style teaching
two large conference and exhibition rooms for events up to about 199 people
extra classrooms for education, analysis and theory sessions
modern conference equipment including projection, sound and communication technology available in all meeting rooms
free Wi-Fi throughout the accommodation and main buildings
on site restaurant with buffet breakfast and the possibility of full board arrangements
twenty four hour front desk support and room service for hotel guests
free on site parking with additional parking in the surrounding Sportpark area and an electric vehicle charging station
location in the middle of Sportpark Duisburg with very short walking distances to swimming stadium, ice arena, waterski course, regatta course and high ropes park for cross training and leisure
training camp packages including accommodation in double rooms, use of football and indoor facilities, full board and free Wi-Fi, with the option to organise friendly matches against local clubs
good regional connections within the Ruhr area and to Duisburg city centre, Oberhausen, Düsseldorf and other Rhine Ruhr cities for cultural and leisure activities between sessions