Football pitch maintenance and management

Football Pitch Maintenance Comparisons: 1990 to 2020 advert image shown if present
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This entry takes a brief look at how maintenance inputs and expectations of quality have changed over a 30-year, or so, period.

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Football Pitch Match day playability advert image shown if present
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In addition to monitoring performance standards to aid pitch management, the need to ensure a pitch is safe and legal to use on the day of a match is essential if an organisation’s duty of care to its users is to be fulfilled.

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Mow at a height which allows for good root growth and also good roll of the football. For many pitches this will typically be between 25mm and 50mm, with a 40mm height of cut providing a good balance between root growth and ball roll for many levels of league game.

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Football Pitch Performance Standards (A) advert image shown if present
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1) Total (live) vegetative ground cover, including grass density.
2) Bare (and decaying-dead) area.
3) Desirable grass coverage.

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4) Undesirable grasses.
5) Sward height.
6) Root depth, and root density.
7) Weed content.
8) Earthworm surface casting.

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9) Surface evenness.
10) Infiltration rate
11) Silt and clay content.
12) Soil pH.
13) Nutrient levels.

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Football Pitch Performance Standards (D) advert image shown if present
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14) Pest damage.
15) Disease.
16) Surface colour.

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Football Pitch Performance Standards (E) advert image shown if present
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17) Appearance.
18) Line markings.
19) Surface debris.

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Football Pitch Performance Standards (UEFA) advert image shown if present
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UEFA also has a range of performance standards for professional pitches.

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Football Pitch Performance Standards, Introduction to advert image shown if present
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A range of performance standards can and should be used to manage a football pitch and these can help provide for well informed decisions on the effective and efficient use of resources needed to maintain the pitch to meet the needs of the club and league in which the club plays.

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