“Acıbadem Sports”, the first and only holder of a FIFA Medical Center of Excellence certificate in Türkiye since 2012, is a sports health center built on 4.500 square meters adjacent to Acıbadem Fulya, a full-fledged hospital in Istanbul, the intersection of Asia and Europe.
Acıbadem Sports Academy is an education platform that gives regular trainings / courses to convey a large variety of subjects to trainers, s&c coaches, sports scientists, physicians, physiotherapists, data analysts, academics or anyone interested, including topics like sports and training science, sports technologies, innovation, match and performance analysis, sports analytics, preventive medicine, sports physiology, treatment and rehabilitation. Having commenced in 2017, ASA awarded its first certificates on GPS Usage and Analysis in Sports, Sports Technologies, and Data Analysis.
The goal of these educations is to promote the use of science and technology, which are thought to be lacking in Turkish sports, create effective areas of use, train individuals capable of analyzing technological data and turning them into knowledge, and ensure that these individuals can find a place in the sector as well-qualified team members that every team will (or will have to) look for.
Acıbadem University aims to continuously expand its training areas through collaborations with the Turkish Football Federation and sports technology companies. In October 2018, ASA launched an Athlete Monitoring Training program under an education protocol signed between the Turkish Football Federation and Acıbadem University and has been awarding TFF-accredited certificates as of 2019.
To learn more about ASA trainings, please visit https://acibademsportsevents.com/.