How to Design Football Field Lighting-Three levels You Should Know

The soccer field lighting quality mainly depends on the illumination level, average illumination and the glare control. The lighting level needed for athletes and audience is different, for the athletes, the required illumination levels are relatively low. But for the audience to watch the game,the lighting need to increase with the increase of viewing distance.

The requirements for different venues are different, some 200lux is enough, and some even need 2000lux, so it is important to know the level of the football field. Before we can figure it out, there are two concepts: lux and lighting uniformity.

Lux:

The lux (symbol: lx) is the SI derived unit of illuminance, measuring luminous flux per unit area.

Illuminance is a measure of how much luminous flux is spread over a given area. One can think of luminous flux (measured in lumens) as a measure of the total “amount” of visible light present, and the illuminance as a measure of the intensity of illumination on a surface. A given amount of light will illuminate a surface more dimly if it is spread over a larger area, so illuminance is inversely proportional to area when the luminous flux is held constant.

One lux is equal to one lumen per square metre:

1 lx = 1 lm/m2 = 1 cd·sr/m2.

A flux of 1000 lumens, spread uniformly over an area of 1 square metre, lights up that square metre with an illuminance of 1000 lux. However, the same 1000 lumens spread out over 10 square metres produces a dimmer illuminance of only 100 lux.

For a batting cage,the lighting requirement is about 200 to 500 lux generally speaking. This lux level is suitable for training and recreational purpose.

Lighting Uniformity

Apart from providing adequate & appropriate brightness for baseball players, we also need to ensure that the illumination has high enough uniformity. High uniformity means that the brightness of each spots on the ground is almost the same. The ways to quantify is to looking at the ratio between minimum lux : average lux or minimum lux : maximum lux. Theoretically the maximum value is 1.

For the recreational indoor softball field and batting cage, having uniformity of 0.5 to 0.6 would be appropriate. Just get in touch with us to acquire much information. Our lighting designer will help.

Three levels of football field lighting:

Football stadium lighting is not as easy as it may sound. It is divided into three categories, which according to the EN12193 international standards is ideal.

1. Class III

As per standards of EN12193, the LED lighting guidelines include 75 lux horizontal lights for recreational and training purpose in field. When it comes to recreational football fields and high school football grounds, the range is usually from 75 lux to 200 lux.

2. Class II

Class II involves the lighting guidelines for leagues and clubs. The standards are 200 lux horizontal lightings with the uniformity of 0.6. This is especially set for semi-professional stadiums.

3. Class I

Class I includes all the stadiums for professional purposes. These stadiums are to be used for televising the events as well, for which the lighting needs to be professional as well. These grounds are used for national and international games so the lights installed must be high performance and of excellent quality. For this purpose, the ground lux ranges from about 1000lux to 2000lux, the uniformity ranges about U1 at 0.7, and U2 around 0.8.

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When it comes to football stadium led lighting, keeping up with the guidelines of the specific standards are important. You can select the lighting type according to the use of the football field whether you need to light up a football field for a school, or for national games. You can choose from the three classes and decide accordingly. The more professional the football field and game is, the higher the need for illumination, quality and lux of LED stadium lamps.

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