5,7,11 A Side Football Stadiums Lighting Illuminance Standards

If you are looking for outdoor football stadium lighting installation solution.Do you know there are five-a-side, seven-a-side and eleven-a-side football stadiums for different applications.No worry,we will explore all them. You can refer these guide in a easy way. Before talking about the lighting design, first of all,let’s view the lighting illuminance standards of indoor and outdoor, professional and hobby football filed:

Lighting illuminance standards for football field

Outdoor football field illumination standard

Indoor football filed illumination standard

Indoor Football Stadium Illumination Standard(GAISF)

Football stadiums lighting design

From above illuminance standards table,we know that there are differences in the illuminance standards of indoor football fields and outdoor football fields. The illuminance standards also depends on different application,such as:training, hobby,  competition , and TV broadcast etc.Here we mainly explore the design of outdoor football filed lighting for training and hobby competition.

There are main on both side and four corner layout for outdoor football stadium lighting,and we also explore the size of light pole and light fixture for 5-a-side,7-a-side and 11-a-side football filed.

Outdoor 5-a-side football field lighting design

On both side layout 1:

The first layout of outdoor 5-a-side football field lighting is on both sides. We can use 3 piece of light poles with a height of 8 meter on each side, and each light pole comes with 3 piece of 200W LED or 400W metal halide special stadium light. 

This layout is a relatively economical lighting design solution,which can also meet the illuminance requirement for hobby training.

On four corner layout 2:

Another layout of outdoor 5-a-side football field lighting is on four corners. We can install one piece of light pole with a height of 8-10 meter at each of the four corners of the football field, and each light pole comes with 4 piece of 300W LED light or 400W metal halide light. Compared with light pole on both side layout,the four-corner light pole layout needs higher requirements for the height of the light pole and the size of the light fixture. Therefore,as the height of the light pole increasing,we should increase the number and power of the light fixture.

Outdoor 7-a-side football field lighting design

On both side layout 1:

There is 65-68 meters length and 45-48 meters wide for  seven-a-side football field. Compared with the five-a-side field, this area is more larger,which can not only be used for daily training, but also can be used for hobby competition.Therefore,we need to increase the illuminance level.When using light pole on both sides of the stadium layout, we can place 3 or 4 piece of light pole with a height of 12-meter on each side, and each light pole comes with 3 or 4 piece of 300W-400W LED light or 1000W metal halide light,which can also meet the illuminance requirement for hobby training and competitions.

On four corner layout 2:

We also can place 4 piece of light pole with a height of 15-18 meters on the four corners of the football field, each light pole comes with 6 piece of 400-600W LED lights or 1000W metal halide light.

Outdoor 11-a-side football field lighting design

We also can use two-side light layout and four-corner layout for outdoor 11-a-side football field.

Compared with the 5 a side or 7 a side filed,the 11 a side football filed needs higher lighting requirements,we can reduce the adjacent distance of light pole when using two-side light layout,or increase the number and size of light fixture,and use 1000-watt metal halide light or high-power LED floodlights instead of them.

When building outdoor football filed lighting system,we should not only consider the number and size of light fixture according to the area and lighting requirements,but also consider the luminous efficiency of the light fixture.

Under the same power,there are many factors will affect the  luminous efficiency of the light fixture,sch as:the chip specifications, the design of the light cover, the quality of the driving power supply, the beam angle and the the reflector etc .Therefore, a reliable supplier and high-quality football field light will bring you a stable and successful business.

Wrapping Up

In this article, we briefly introduce the outdoor football field illumination standards for different applications. According to the illumination standards and the area of the 5-a-side, 7-a-side and 11-a-side football fields, we can use light ole on both two side or the four-corner layout,then calculate the number and size of light pole and light fixture.However,In actual application,there are more factor need to be considered,therefore,we can adjust the solution appropriately. View here for more football field lighting layout design or feel free to contact us for more football field lighting solution.