Module 2:

Pitch quality

Module overview

We look at pitch quality, in particular performance standards and how these can be used to maintain and manage a football pitch.

Twelve of the features that were identified in Module 1 will be explored in more detail to show how they might be used as performance standards.

Having described the twelve performance standards, we will then show how a pitch can be assessed to provide an indication of its overall quality grade.

Finishing off the module is a brief overview of the relationship between carrying capacity and pitch quality.

  How long is this module?

It is estimated at 5-hours.

Module contents

This module has five sections:

  •   2.1 What is needed from a pitch?
  •   2.2 Observation skills: Getting started
  •   2.3 Observation skills: Football pitch
  •   2.4 Carrying Capacity: Limitations on games played
  • 2.5 Module summary & recall