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FIFA Quality Programme for Football Turf — Handbook

FIFA · International / FIFA · 2024-03-01

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FIFA quality guidance emphasises performance consistency, maintenance planning, and suitability for football usage profiles.

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Performance consistency

Football-focused standards place strong emphasis on surface consistency, shock absorption, ball response, and maintaining the system to the tested specification.

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Usage capacity

Synthetic systems can help absorb heavy usage where natural turf recovery windows are limited, but that does not remove the need for maintenance and lifecycle planning.

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Synthetic turf can help with heavy football usage capacity

Where clubs face intense booking demand and short recovery windows, synthetic turf can improve playable hours relative to natural turf, but that advantage st...

Football surface quality still depends on maintaining the tested specification

Synthetic performance claims should be read alongside the requirement to maintain the system close to the tested specification over time, not only on day one.