Football pitch maintenance and management

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Aeration work is essential if good root growth is to be encouraged through routine slit tining (especially on sandier rootzones with minimal stones within it), heavier chisel-slit tines where the soil is more compacted and prone to having stones and other inclusions within a rootzone and solid tining.

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The following data table summarises the annual inputs for all the different maintenance activities for the annual schedule given above. The top five activities have been emphasised in bold text.

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The total quantity of materials that might be needed to maintain a soil-based football pitch can vary considerably due to a number of factors, including:

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There are many variables which influence the actual, in contrast to the planned, work which are needed to produce a football pitch to a desired standard on a regular basis and in a cost-effective and resource effective way.

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How many hours does it take to maintain a football pitch? This will depend on the number of games which are planned, as well as those which actually take place, the soil type and drainage potential, the current weather and soil conditions and the geographic location of the pitch.

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Biostimulants are products which might be applied to a sward for many reasons.

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These implements are useful where budgets and resources are limited because they have two sides:

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A modern constructed football pitch will typically have 200-300mm depth of a very sandy soil to one of mostly sand.

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Decompaction of a pitch, especially soil-based ones which have not been constructed but rather marked out as a pitch on a general soil-based area, will be very beneficial.

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One of the commonest questions which needs to be considered is ‘What do I, or we, need to do to maintain the pitch?’

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