Today, most top-tier football pitches are a hybrid – essentially a synthetic mat through which real grass can grow. These pitches feel like natural grass – the ball bounces consistently, they ...

Artificial football pitches ... They have been banned in the professional game in England since 1998, though there are more than 5,000 across the UK at amateur level.

Discovery of world’s oldest football pitch in Scotland changes everything we knew about game, historian says. Findings predate founding of Football Association by centuries and could explain ...

The risk of injury in professional football has been estimated at about 1000 times greater than for typical industrial occupations generally regarded as high risk.1 Hence, prevention of injury in ...

Sports historian Ged O’Brien and his team say this is the site of the world’s oldest football pitch, in Anworth, Kirkcudbrightshire - Saltire News and Sport Ben Rumsby April 24, 2025 at 11:01 ...

The English football legend Gary Neville is on the lookout for amateur Plymouth football teams who are in need of a pitch upgrade.The former Manchester United player is looking for underfunded ...

A standard 11-a-side football pitch measuring 106m by 71m (350ft by 234ft) is covered with 120 tonnes of rubber crumb. Between 1.5 and five tonnes of rubber crumb is lost to the environment from a ...