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A football pitch or soccer field is the playing surface for the game of association football. Its dimensions and markings are defined by Law 1 of the Laws of the Game , "The Field of Play". [ 1 ] The pitch is typically made of natural turf or artificial turf , although amateur and recreational teams often play on dirt fields.
The college football standard, which was the previous standard in the NFL (from 1945 to 1971), is 40 feet apart (20 yards from the sidelines), [7] instituted in 1993. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Previously, the college width was the same as the high school standard, at one-third of the width of the field (53 1 ⁄ 3 feet).
Turf Moor hosted its first floodlit football match in March of the same year, between Burnley and Nelson; 16 creosote-fuelled lamps were placed on poles at intervals along the sides of the pitch. Spectators reported that while the edges of the field were sufficiently lit, there was a dark area in the centre.
Football field or football pitch may refer to the playing areas of several codes of football: American football field; Australian rules football playing field;
Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham since 1896. [3] The ground's capacity is 29,589; [ 1 ] the record attendance is 49,335, for a game against Millwall in 1938. [ 4 ]
The Billy Wright (1924–1994) statue outside Molineux. Molineux Stadium (/ ˈ m ɒ l ɪ nj uː / MOL-i-new) is a football stadium situated in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.It has been the home ground of Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers since 1889.
Plenty of NFL and NBA coaches have gone to the college ranks and tried to make that pitch — rarely did it work. After 29 seasons as an NFL head coach, Bill Belichick is ready to try the college ...
Work began on building the stadium in 2003 [2] after Brockville Park, the club's town centre home since 1885, was sold and demolished. [3]The project of building the stadium was a partnership between Falkirk Football Club and Falkirk Council who set up the Falkirk Community Stadium Ltd which provided the funds to construct and run the stadium. [4]