Sportschule Hennef is a large residential multi-sport campus on a 60-hectare wooded site on the edge of Hennef, run by the Football Association of the Middle Rhine and used regularly by German FA squads and professional clubs. It combines a football performance centre, extensive indoor and outdoor sports facilities for more than 25 disciplines, hotel-standard accommodation and a full conference centre with rooms for 5–400 people, in a quiet valley setting but with good road links to Cologne and Bonn.
The campus has around 114 rooms with roughly 211 beds, divided into three comfort categories and laid out mainly as single, double and multi-bed rooms so both elite teams and seminar groups can stay on site. The buildings sit above the sports grounds and pool in a compact central cluster, giving short walking distances between bedrooms, restaurant, meeting rooms and training areas.
Sportschule Hennef is especially known for football, with a main natural grass pitch to international dimensions (105 × 68 m) plus additional grass training areas and further pitches on the complex. The main pitch has automatic irrigation, floodlights and changing and function rooms directly linked to the field, and is used as a professional-standard training ground in tournament catalogues.
Aquatics are centred on a 50-metre outdoor pool with diving platform, a landmark of the campus for more than seven decades and used for swim training, water-sports camps and summer recovery sessions, and a separate 25-metre indoor pool with four lanes and a 3-metre diving board, water depth roughly 0.9–2.5 m, suitable for year-round training and school or club sessions.
Beyond football and swimming, the sports school offers modern facilities for over 25 sports including athletics, boxing, fencing, judo and table tennis, supported by indoor sports halls and a gym / fitness area for conditioning work. This multi-sport profile makes it a national performance centre rather than only a football academy, while still retaining a strong focus on that sport.
Conference and meeting infrastructure includes about 14 seminar and conference rooms with modern media technology and layouts for everything from small workshops to plenary events for up to 400 participants, integrated with catering so teams or federations can combine theory blocks and analysis with practical sessions on the same site.
Access is straightforward by car via the A3 and A560 motorways, exiting at Hennef-West and following the signs to the sports school, where a multi-storey car park at the foot of the campus provides paid parking for buses and cars. The wooded valley setting still offers a quiet, self-contained feel, with the Sieg nature region directly around the grounds for walks and light outdoor regeneration.
Three full-size natural grass football pitches plus one full-size artificial turf pitch
Indoor synthetic-turf football hall for all-weather sessions
50 m outdoor pool with lanes and diving tower, plus 25 m indoor pool with 4 lanes and 3 m board
400 m tartan track with additional sprint straight
Large triple multi-purpose sports hall and additional single sports hall for ball sports
Dedicated halls for boxing, wrestling, judo/taekwondo and weightlifting with specialised equipment
Strength and cardio gym and separate weight room next to the halls
Sauna area adjacent to the pool zone for heat and recovery sessions.
On-site accommodation with around 114 rooms and 211 beds in three comfort categories
Restaurant and catering facilities providing full board for training camps and courses
Conference and seminar rooms (approx. 14) with capacities from 5 up to about 400 participants
Modern conference technology and optional conference packages with drinks, snacks and meals
Paid multi-storey car park directly at the entrance, suitable for team buses and cars
Quiet forest setting on a 60-hectare site with short walking distances between facilities