Football

Sporting systems

Together with exclusive partnerships, experienced suppliers and manufacturers, patents and trademarks, Greenpeople offers an unequalled range of football turf systems. From economical products up to 100 % engineered systems whereby every component of the system is known, tested and can be reproduced!

 

Systems that meet the FIFA requirements

Synthetic football turf has not changed very much over the years. Even the new generation of rubber-filled football turf was invented more than 20 years ago. Products were classified based on parameters like fiber thickness (microns), fiber weight (Dtex), and pile height (mm); or as a monofilament against a slit film, fibrillated yarn; or as a polyethylene fiber against a nylon fiber. Even today, carpet manufacturers and fiber suppliers dominate the synthetic turf market. They try to sell a football turf system based on a single parameter, like fiber thickness or pile height.

 

At Greenpeople, we want to make the real difference

· If a normal carpet (tufting) machine has too many limitations to manufacture the best possible football turf it must be changed into a football turf (tufting) machine

Along with our partners, we already have vast experience in construction, installation, manufacturing and development of synthetic turf systems. For more than 20 years, we have invested in testing equipment used by accredited laboratories to carry out tests and research for FIFA, UEFA and National Football Associations.

The cost of synthetic grass is a fraction of natural grass, especially due to the high water costs involved in maintaining the latter. However, it is not only the cost of water that makes schools and sports clubs change to synthetic grass. Even if the natural pitch is looked after extremely well (which, of course, incurs a cost), it still wears out very quickly due to the frequent use of the pitch.

With a synthetic pitch these problems do not exist. A worn out natural pitch also increases the chance of injury. Due to the rubber infill in synthetic systems, the injury rate is lower than on natural pitches.