Guide for LED football pitch lighting – Stadium lights

Introduction

Stadium lights are very strong sports field lights set at great heights with narrow beam angles, often between 12 and 60 degrees. With these narrower beam angles, the light intensity inside that angle is greater, allowing brilliant light to reach the ground from greater heights.

The lighting of football fields plays a vital role in night games. For the audience, their experience depends heavily on the lighting system settings. For players, the lights must provide enough coverage so that they can use their skills to the fullest.

Football field lighting is a design with strong functionality, high technology, and a relatively high degree of difficulty. Football stadium lights not only must they meet the standards of various levels of football events, but also pay great attention to the actual effect of the real-time color TV broadcast. In order to ensure that the broadcast images are vivid and clear, and the colors are true, there are corresponding regulations on the vertical illuminance, uniformity of light intensity, spatial three-dimensionality, color temperature, and color rendering index of the light source, and the lighting standards of different levels of football fields are different. In this article, we will share this information with you.

Football Stadium Lighting Standards

Football stadium lighting must meet the needs of the audiovisual media, spectators, professional football players, and officials. Its lighting requirements depend on whether the venue is used for competition or training, whether the competition is domestic or international, whether it is televised, etc.

According to these, there are many different levels and different parameters. Let’s take a look at the main types of football pitch lighting and the characteristics they need to have.

• FIFA: Televised events (Em ≥ 1,500–2,000 lx / Uniformity ≥ 0.7). CRI80, CCT 5000-6200K
• Grade 1: World cup training or small competitions (Em ≥ 750 lx / Uniformity ≥ 0.6). CRI80, CCT 5000-6200K, Non-televised matches.
• Grade 2: Match practice (Em ≥ 500 lx / Uniformity ≥ 0.6). CRI70, CCT 5000-6200K
• Grade 3: Standard training use (Em ≥ 300 lx / Uniformity ≥ 0.6). CRI70, CCT 4200-6200K

The table below lists the requirements for E horizontal, uniformity, flick factor, reference grid, color temperature, color rendering, glare rating, maintenance factor, etc. In addition, the football pitch used in the world competition has also made requirements for E vertical. If you need to know this knowledge, you can contact XINTONG .

Design guideline

Dimension of the football pitch

Mostly, the football pitch is 105 meters long and 68 meters wide. However, the dimensions can be slightly different for different applications. And its length ranges from 90 meters to 120 meters, while its width can be 45 meters to 90 meters. If your football pitch isn’t of standard size, please let us know.

Light arrangement

Normally LED floodlights are installed around the stadium roof rim structure. However, for some football pitches, the lights are installed on the poles/towers around the pitch perimeter. FIFA made detailed requirements on this which include room rim light, lamps behind the goal line, luminaires focus point, column position, etc.

• Arrangement Picture for reference Remark