Melgaço: Sports and Leisure Center

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The Melgaço Sports and Leisure Complex was inaugurated in the end of 2001. It features areas for professional sports training (stadium, synthetic field, indoor sports arena, athletics track, and tennis courts) and also for relaxation during holidays (children’s playground, hotel, youth hostel, minigolf, swimming-pool, SPA). It is an excellent place for training because of its quiet location in the middle of nature, with pinewood forest and the Minho River surrounding it. It was one of the official training centers of the UEFA Euro 2004.

Several teams have chosen this Sports Center, some of them more than once, for example:

• S.C. Braga (Portugal)
• Portuguese Basketball National Team (Portugal)
• Portuguese League of Football – referees
• Nigeria -under 23- National Team (Nigeria)
• Sport Luanda e Benfica (Angola)
• Zaglebie Lubin (Poland)
• Football NSW (Australia)
• Marne et Gondoire Atletisme (France)
• R.C. Celta de Vigo (Spain)

Lake and leisure Swimming-pool

Youth Hostel

Tennis Courts

Outdoor leisure field

Indoor Sports arena

Main Field (Stadium)

Synthetic Field

Aerial View

Helpful Links:  Melgaço Sport Center official page;  Melgaço Sport Center youth Hostel official page; Google Maps (location) ; Sport Center’s Hotel (Booking.com)