Artificial sports surfaces
This guidance covers artificial sports
surfaces, including design and material selection of artificial
surfaces for a range of outdoor sports using artificial grass
pitches, needle punch play surfaces and polymeric
surfaces.
It replaces our original design guides
‘Multi-Use Games Areas Volumes 1 to 3 which have now been
withdrawn.
This guidance note has been developed by
- Sport England
- England Hockey Board
- Football Association
- Football Foundation
- Rugby Football League
- Rugby Football Union
It is intended to provide a simple, consistent, agreed
methodology and approach to selecting the right type of artificial
grass surface for playing hockey, football, rugby union and rugby
league. Rev 2 includes updated document to reflect comments
regarding long pile.
This checklist provides standard sizes (minimum/maximum) for
indoor and outdoor courts and pitches, associated run-off margins
and links to the National Governing Bodies for Sport.
A list of facility and lifecycle costs for the development of
community sports based on providing good quality sports
facilities.
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