Ranked shortlist · 10 of 10 sport and recreation clubs
Best sport and recreation clubs in Sharjah
The 10 most notable sport and recreation clubs in Sharjah, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Shotokan Karate Martial Arts Classes
Office:203 Ahli House-C
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 1.431, percentile 100 of 10
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2
Silver Star Karate Sharjah
Al Habtoor Tower, King Faisal St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.270, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
Al Sahra Karate Training Center
Al Arouba St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.118, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
Brilliance martial arts uae
sheikh khalifa street
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.049, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
Grosportz
Platinum Business Centre - Suite 301 - 7 Baghdad Street
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.038, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
SKC Kickboxing Club, Al Nahda-2, Dubai
Amman Street, Al Nahda_2, Ahli House C
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 0.946, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
Red Belt Academy International
Safari Mall
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 0.831, percentile 33.33 of 10
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8
Al Fahad Karate Centre
Muweilah
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 0.769, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
Gulf Star Karate
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.385, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
Black Wolf Martial Arts Center
Al Shahed Tower - 6th floor
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 0.163, percentile 0 of 10
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent calibration: 533 Michelin-starred restaurants in the catalogue were checked against their own group. It is the only designation that covers more than one place, so the ranking is corroborated for restaurants and uncorroborated elsewhere — the manifest says so per run. The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).