FIFA Certification Is About the Entire System — Not a Single Product

A common misconception in the artificial grass industry is that FIFA certification applies to individual turf products. In reality, The latest FIFA Football Turf™ 2024 framework further strengthens this concept by redefining artificial pitches as integrated performance systems. Instead of focusing only on individual material specifications, the new standard evaluates how the entire system behaves over time — including installation accuracy, long-term durability, and real-match performance conditions.A certified system typically includes:

Artificial grass carpet

Infill materials (such as SBR, EPDM, or TPE rubber granules)

Shock pad layer (optional but common in high-performance systems)

Base construction and drainage layers

All these elements interact to determine the field’s performance. During testing, the installed system must meet requirements for:

a. Ball roll and ball rebound

b. Shock absorption

c. Vertical deformation

d. Rotational resistance

e. Energy restitution

f. Surface regularity

Because these parameters depend on how the components function together, changing even one layer can affect the entire system’s certification status.

This is why professional artificial football fields are designed using pretested turf system configurations rather than mixing unrelated components.