Football Field Lighting Requirements

Football is a highly competitive team sport and a widely popular sport worldwide. The history of football demonstrates its vitality and influence. According to FIFA regulations, a football field should be 105-110 meters long and 68-75 meters wide. Obstacles must be kept at least 5 meters outside the baseline and sidelines to ensure player safety.

Football lighting is divided into indoor and outdoor football field lighting, and the installation methods vary depending on the venue. The standard is determined by the function of the football field and is divided into seven levels: 200 lx for training and recreational activities, 500 lx for amateur competitions, 750 lx for professional competitions, 1000 lx for general TV broadcasts, 1400 lx for high-definition television broadcasts of major international competitions, and 750 lx for TV emergency use. In the past, traditional football fields generally used 1000W or 1500W metal halide lamps or floodlights. Due to the shortcomings of traditional lamps, such as glare, high energy consumption, short life, inconvenient installation, poor color rendering, and insufficient actual brightness, it is difficult to meet the lighting requirements of modern stadiums.

The lamps used in football fields are generally high pole lamps and floodlights. The lamps can be installed at the edge of the stand ceiling or above the poles. The poles are installed around the field.

Almost every game requires the use of live broadcast technology, which also puts higher requirements on football field lighting.

1. Requirements related to football field lighting and competition

(1) The installation location of football field lighting fixtures is generally not allowed to be directly above the field.

(2) There are areas in football fields where lighting is not allowed to be installed, mainly for locations where lighting will harm the main line of sight during the game.

(3) Prevent direct light from football field lighting fixtures from affecting football players and spectators.

2. Brightness requirements for football field lighting

(1) To ensure brightness, meet the visual requirements of athletes and referees during football matches, and should not cause glare that affects the athletes' performance or the referees' accurate judgment.

(2) To meet the visual requirements of the audience, the lighting should not interfere with or affect the game.

(3) To meet the lighting requirements of color TV broadcasts, it should have high color rendering, no flicker, and improve the lighting effect as much as possible to make the broadcast quality better.

(4) To fully consider the convenience and safety of lighting equipment during installation and subsequent maintenance.

(5) To fully consider energy saving, and choose high-efficiency and energy-saving LED stadium lights.

3. The intelligent football field lighting system has the following advantages:

a. Greatly improve management efficiency;

b. Ensure sports lighting safety;

c. Easily achieve secondary energy saving;

d. Light switching mode. Through the intelligent lighting system, the lighting of the football field is more professional, thus meeting the lighting needs of many football fields.

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