For Football Fans: Pitch Finder

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Link: PitchFinder | Football Pitches in the UK

 

PitchFinder is the largest database of football facilities in Britain. It allows you to find local football pitches and provides information on the type of facilities that you can expect to find there. It also allows you to get route planning information, street maps and aerial views of these sites. PitchFinder is available to the public to browse. However, it is also designed to let you share information about football facilities and tell us when a site has changed or if there is some data about the facility that is missing or inaccurate...

 

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Link 1: ArcGIS Web Application: Pitch Perfect: 92 Football Association football pitches mapped

 

The game of football is played on a pitch set out with dimensions and markings originally defined by the four British football associations and specified in imperial units of measurement.

 

Yet all pitches are different as the rectangular pitch boundary has both minimum and maximum dimensions in length and width as well as different orientations. Here, pitches of 92 professional football clubs in England and Wales have been accurately mapped from high resolution aerial imagery.

 

Pitches are ranked from largest (Nottingham Forest) to smallest (Blackpool). Explore the map using the bookmarks...

 

 

Poster of the pitches [size: 100 Mb. Presentation: PDF]

 

Link 2: Pitch Perfect PDF Poster

 

 

Map data:

 

Link 3: Pitch Perfect Map Data