3G pitches news

Unprecedented financial challenges are pressing Caerphilly County Borough Council to accelerate its consolidation strategy which has been designed to modernise its leisure facility portfolio. Caerphilly ... More

Construction work has begun on a £13m community sports hub in Barking, East London. The new facility will replace the existing Parsloes Park Sports Pavilion ... More

The Tarka Leisure Centre in North Devon, which reopened in June after a £15m revamp, welcomed 33,800 visitors in August – up 43 per cent ... More

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged his support for plans to build a £70m world class football facility in Northwich, Cheshire. Driven by Cheshire Football ... More

Three new floodlit 3G artificial grass pitches, along with male and female changing facilities, car parking and an 80-station gym, have been opened at Liverpool’s ... More

The University of Warwick is building a £49m (US$64.6m, €54.9m) sports and wellness hub in a bid to become the “most physically active higher education ... More

Charitable social enterprise Wave Leisure Trust Limited will begin operating East Grinstead Sports Club (EGSC) from 1 October 2017, taking over from Freedom Leisure. The ... More

A £23million (US$28.7m, €26.6m) leisure centre in Hampshire - managed by Everyone Active - is due to open next week (Saturday 1 April). The leisure ... More

A fan zone, a museum, a memorial garden and community facilities will make up parts of Aberdeen FC’s proposed new stadium development. The Scottish Premiership ... More

Dover District Council has finalised its team to deliver a £26m leisure centre in the Kent town. The authority has appointed a team of consultants ... More

The Football Association (FA) is in talks to bring its ambitious grassroots Parklife project to Southampton – and will encourage bids from other cities from ... More

Almost £30m has been ploughed into grassroots football facilities over the last six months, courtesy of the Football Association (FA) and the Premier League. According ... More

The Scottish Football Association (SFA) has queried the timing of survey results published by the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) in relation to artificial pitches, and ... More

The use of artificial turf in professional football has come under the spotlight after three-quarters of Scottish league players said they would rather play on ... More

Grassroots facilities have benefited from £47m (US$67m, €61.8m) worth of grants in 2015 according to the Football Foundation’s annual report. The body, which was set ... More

The Premier League and Football Association (FA) ploughed £14m (US$20.7m, €19m) into the upgrade of 163 grassroots facilities in the six months ending December 2015. ... More

Lancashire’s Wyre Council has completed the Spa on the Breck in Poulton-le-Fylde, marking the first phase of the Council’s £5.1m plans to “reinvent leisure” in ... More

Everyone Active has entered into a joint venture partnership with Sunderland City Council (SCC) ahead of an innovative deal that will see the leisure operator ... More

Following criticisms that the new £5.14bn TV deal recently secured for rights to air the Premier League wasn’t benefitting most of English football, football’s most ... More

The Football Association (FA) is to allow the use of 3G artificial pitches in every round of the FA Cup, starting from next season (2014-15). ... More

A £3.15m grant has been created to develop a Scotland-wide network of full-sized 3G pitches for youth football and rugby. The CashBack for Pitches Fund ... More

The road to future Olympic glory could start in Orpington as a new and improved sport and leisure facility opened its doors just two weeks ... More