The Choice for Every Level of Football

As the world’s largest synthetic turf company, you will find FieldTurf in many major stadiums around the globe – but there are no differences between a field installed at an NFL stadium and one installed in a small town.  For every NFL Stadium we build, there are over 100 high schools and municipalities that play on our turf.

FieldTurf at Super Bowl XL in Detroit, MI

Football Firsts

FieldTurf is proud to have broken new ground with some significant “firsts” in the world of football:

• First infilled turf system to play host to a Super Bowl (XL)
• First infilled turf system installed in an NFL Stadium
• First infilled turf system installed in an NCAA Stadium
• First infilled turf system to host a Pro Bowl
• First infilled turf system to host a college bowl game 
• First and only artificial turf proven to be safer than natural grass by independent long-term, injury testing
• First artificial turf to beat natural grass in biomechanical safety tests
• First - and only - artificial turf field to be ranked in the Top 2 in the NFLPA’s Playing Surfaces Opinion Survey (2006)

 Who’s playing on FieldTurf?

• Over 1,000 high schools play on FieldTurf
• 21 of the NFL’s 32 teams play and/or practice on FieldTurf
• More than 100 NCAA D-1 teams play and/or practice on FieldTurf
• Over 500 municipal and recreational football fields have FieldTurf

 

 Here is just a small sample of some of our high-profile football turf installations:

Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA

 

NFL game and/or practice field installations:
	Atlanta Falcons Cincinnati Bengals Cleveland Browns Denver Broncos Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Houston Texans Indianapolis Colts Jacksonville Jaguars Kansas City Chiefs		Minnesota Vikings New England Patriots New Orleans Saints New York Giants New York Jets Oakland Raiders Pittsburgh Steelers Seattle Seahawks St. Louis Rams Tennessee Titans

 

The Ohio State Buckeyes play on FieldTurf

NCAA D-1 Installations:
	Air Force Falcons Army Black Knights Boston College Eagles Cincinnati Bearcats Michigan Wolverines Memphis Tigers Miami RedHawks Navy Midshipmen		Nebraska Cornhuskers Northwestern Wildcats Notre Dame Fighting Irish Ohio State Buckeyes Rutgers Scarlet Knights Texas Longhorns Texas Tech Red Raiders Wake Forest Demon Deacons

 

Download a list of the NCAA D-1 schools using FieldTurf

NFL Players Vote FieldTurf as the Best Artificial Playing Surface Eight Years Running

Every other year, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) ranks the performance of all 31 NFL game fields.  In 2008, 1,565 active NFL players from all 32 teams completed survey forms, and the results showed FieldTurf as the runaway leader among all turf brands for an unprecedented fourth time in a row.

Highlights of the 2008 survey:

• 8 of the league's top 10 artificial fields were FieldTurf
• All teams playing on FieldTurf at home ranked a FieldTurf field as the #1 artificial turf field in the league
• Players who play on artificial turf at home rated FieldTurf fields as 7 of the top 8 artificial turf fields
• Of all 32 NFL teams, 24 (75%) chose FieldTurf as the number 1 artificial turf field
• Of all NFL teams whose home fields are natural grass, more than 70% chose FieldTurf as their number 1 artificial turf field
• 4 of the top 5 teams to have expressed the highest preference of playing on artificial turf have FieldTurf at their home fields

Outside the Lines: ESPN Feature on FieldTurf