Provn Academy: children training on a football pitch
Provn Academy logo

Provn Academy founding sponsorship

A dual-pathway football academy in Dubai, built on clinical-grade health, nutrition and lifestyle education, because longevity starts in childhood. Year one launches in 2026 with a founding sponsor at its side. Provn Academy founding sponsorship through ES Sport.

Programme40Weeks a year, three football sessions a week plus strength and conditioning
Pathways2The Royals for boys, The Roses for girls
Foundation partner1,300+Students at The English College, Dubai
Match day23,000+Players in the Equiti Youth Football League
The property

The Pitch Is Where We Start.
The Person Is Where We Finish.

Provn is a child development institution that uses football as its vehicle. Four pillars in one academy: football coaching on a structured curriculum; performance and health, with strength and conditioning and sports science; nutrition and lifestyle education that gives each child a life-skills toolbox; and a community that connects families, coaches and partners.

The founder, Dr Shefali Verma, is a physician, sports medicine specialist and strength coach with 25 years bridging clinical medicine and elite performance, in private practice in Dubai since 2010. Year one launches the flagship academy in Dubai and proves the model. A founding sponsor is part of it from the first session.

Provn Academy players in an outdoor training session
Provn Academy, training session
Two pathways, one programme

Where A Sponsor
Shows Up.

Every part of the programme is a place a partner can be seen and take part, on the pitch, in the classroom and at the events around them.

Provn Academy players on the outdoor pitch

The Royals

Boys’ pathway

Three football sessions a week plus strength and conditioning, 40 weeks a year, with weekly competition in the Equiti Youth Football League.

A Roses pathway player on the ball indoors

The Roses

Girls’ pathway

Designed for girls from day one: female-specific strength work, cycle education built into training and a dedicated venue once enrolment allows.

Provn Academy session on a school campus pitch

Match Day

Kit and touchline

Provn squads compete every weekend in a league of 400+ academy teams. Kit, signage and the sponsor’s name travel with them.

A Provn Academy coach with young players

Education & Community

Seminars, workshops, events

Nutrition, recovery and lifestyle sessions for children, parents, coaches and school staff, plus monthly parent-and-athlete events, with room for sponsor-led content and sampling.

Provn Academy coaching session on an indoor pitch

The Provn Forum

Annual event

A paid annual event for coaches, parents and the youth-sport community on child health and development, launching in year one and scaling across the GCC.

The reach

One School Today.
A Network Tomorrow.

Every family enrolled at a partner school is a family a sponsor can reach, on the pitch and beyond it. Provn’s squads compete in the Equiti Youth Football League, which hosts over 400 academy teams and more than 750 teams a year across the emirate.

Figures from the Provn Academy founding sponsorship deck, 2026.

Provn Academy coaching session on an indoor pitch
Provn Academy, indoor session
  1. 1,300+Students at The English College, Dubai, Provn’s first Foundation Partner
  2. 850+Households at the founding school
  3. 6,500+Students across the ISP Dubai network of six schools, the next step
  4. 7More schools in the Jumeirah vicinity, the circle after that
  5. 40Weeks a year the programme runs
  6. 3Football sessions a week, plus strength and conditioning
Perfect for

For Organisations
Ready To…

  • Back youth development from the first session, with a founding partner’s name on the launch year.
  • Reach families through their children’s sport, at a Dubai school today and across a network tomorrow.
  • Put health, nutrition and wellbeing at the centre of a sponsorship, with clinical credibility behind it.
  • Support girls’ football through a pathway designed around how girls develop.
  • Be seen every weekend on kit and signage across the UAE’s largest youth league.
  • Grow with the academy into a second site, international tours and the Provn Forum.
Provn Academy players on the outdoor pitch
Provn Academy, outdoor pitch
Who you stand alongside

The Institutions
Behind The Academy.

Provn’s foundation, league and specialist partners.

Foundation partnerThe English College, DubaiFoundation and venue partner, part of the International Schools Partnership group
LeagueEquiti Youth Football League logoWeekly competition for Provn squads, 400+ academy teams
Specialist partnersIntelthTechnology
Specialist partnersVivamus ClinicSports psychology
Specialist partnersOrthoPro Clinic logoInjury management
Specialist partnersDoctor Shefali logoLifestyle medicine and proactive healthcare education

Partners as named in the Provn Academy founding sponsorship deck, 2026. Partner institutions, not sponsors.

India Beckwith and Stuart Kirkham of the ES Sport sponsorship team
The ES Sport sponsorship team
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