Soccer Field Competition Lighting Levels

This Soccer Club approached us to upgrade their aging 24 metal halide sports oval flood lights on their soccer field with new high output LED sports oval flood lights. Their request was to ensure a minimum average illumination of 200 lux and uniformity (evenness) of > 0.6 to ensure semi-professional competition level play. 

Please contact us now if you would like to purchase this Soccer Field LED Sports Light info@liteonled.com.au.

Soccer Field (football) Lighting Requirements

Soccer training and matches are often held in the evenings making adequate soccer field lighting essential for players to be able to play and perform at their best whilst also attracting new players to an enjoyable well lit playing environment.

The Australian Standards 2560.2.3 - 2007 contains lighting recommendations and requirements specific to Soccer (football) to ensure that the lighting is of adequate intensity and uniformity so that the ball is adequately illuminated at all times by the soccer field lights during the soccer match. These standards for Soccer Field Lighting take into consideration adequate soccer field light levels for recreational to amateur competition to sem-professional standards, whilst also addressing spectator viewing requirements. 

The Soccer Field (football) Lighting Standards contain information for the required horizontal illumination (soccer field light levels) measured in lux and the uniformities or eveness of the lighting for each level of play, and the maximum glare raiting which is important for both soccer players and spectators. The following table summerises the lighting requirements for Soccer Field Lighting and is based on the Australian Standards 2560.2.3 - 2007 for the various competition types and levels of soccer play:

One thing to notice about the Australian Standards for sporting lighting is that it is now really out of date as the uniformities are very poor. This leads to some lighting designers as being quite lax in their design and not giving sporting lighting customers the best possible outcome. These days with more specialised sports light optics and multiple beam angles and power levels we can achieve uniformities of minimum 0.8 and up to 0.94, thereby improving the evenness of the lighting across the soccer field to levels which have never been seen before. This again improves soccer player and spectator comfort. There is nothing worse than having distracting patchy lighting across the soccer field. 

Even if you don't notice the small increments in uniformity from say 0.89 to 0.92 we will still try our best to obtain the best lighting uniformity results and in turn pass on the exact alignment data for the soccer field lights to the installer to ensure you get the best soccer field lighting available. 

Summary of Soccer Field LED Lighting Results

• ~ 40% increase in light levels to an average of 283 lux on the soccer field playing area. 
• With increased uniformity of light across the soccer field to 0.84. 
• 56% energy savings or $2,857 per year.
• Annual Reduction in Green House Emissions = 10.9 tonnes per year.[1]
• Annual Savings in Maintenance Costs = $1,450 per bulb per year.[2]
• Total Estimated Savings per year: $4,307 per year

Soccer Field LED Lighting Simulations

We ran a number of differing Soccer Field LED lighting simulations on three of our different sports LED flood lights, LITE-BR-FL2, LITE-EL-XX-FL and LITE-SK-FL with various beam angle combinations. Each of these models have their distinct advantages under varying applications such that we can provide the best sports field LED flood light for your application and budget.

24 of our 960W High Output Pro Series LED Sports Flood Lights (LITE-EL-960W-FL) were chosen. As shown in the Soccer Field Lighting simulation the results exceed the recommended standards with an average illumination of 283 lux and a uniformity of 0.84. With pole heights at 19 metres a combination of three different narrow to medium beam angles, 22°, 30° and 45° were chosen to enable sufficient projection of the light across the Soccer Field whilst creating a very high level of uniformity and even lighting. 

The lighting simulation results for the LITE-EL-960W-FL exceeds the recommended Australian Standards for Semi-professional Football (Soccer) Lighting (see attached lighting simulation report for full details).

These results suggest that the LITE-EL-800W-FL LED Sports Flood Light model could be considered to provide some additional cost savings whilst still exceeding Australian Standards.

Note that the soccer field light levels for convenience were simulated at the field surface rather than 1m above the field where they would read a little higher. A light loss factor of 0.88 was used. 

The indivdiual theoretical lux levels measured on the ground are as follows: Playing Area (105m x 68m) showing horizontal illumination levels measured in lux for LITE-EL-960W-FL 960W LED Flood Light.

Please find the detailed simulation results listed below.

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