Seit 2012, one single carpet order serves both the men’s and the women’s game. The World Lacrosse Unified Field measures exactly 110 m × 60 m — 6,600 m² of carpet — and that figure is the anchor for every quantity, roll count, container, and price on this page. Miscalculate it and the installer either runs out of turf on the last strip (a four-week wait while a reorder ships from China) or pays for hundreds of square meters the factory will never take back once cut.
The unified footprint is what makes lacrosse procurement unusually clean. Sixty meters divides exactly into fifteen 4 m-wide rolls, the men’s and women’s line sets share a single production batch, and the whole 6,600 m² field ships in one 40 ft high-cube container. This guide walks the exact m² for every lacrosse configuration — unified, modified-for-hockey, and shared with football — the dual line inlay math, the roll layout, the FOB price tiers, and a worked purchase order. For a bill of materials tuned to your site, unser Kunstrasen team returns one inside 24 Std..
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For most of the sport's modern era, lacrosse buyers had to specify two completely different carpets. The men's game was laid out in imperial units — 110 yd × 60 yd — while the women's game used a metric envelope of 120 m × 60 M. Two field sizes meant two roll layouts, two line sets, and two separate purchase orders for any school or club running both programs. That duplication disappeared in 2012.
At its 2012 General Assembly, the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL, now World Lacrosse) ratified the Unified Field Standard. Both codes now compete on a single rectangle: 110 m long × 60 m wide = 6,600 m² (um 7,974 sq yd). The implication for procurement is direct — one carpet order serves both the men's and the women's program. The line geometry differs inside the rectangle, but the green footprint does not.
The unified field was also sized so it could be adapted onto existing infrastructure. A full hockey pitch measures 91.4 m × 55 M, and the lacrosse rectangle can be modified down to fit that envelope for sites that already host a hockey surface. That flexibility is why many campuses lay one World Lacrosse carpet over a hockey-style base and run three sports off the same installation.
Dual Line Inlays: Two Sports, One Turf Batch
The unified field shares one carpet, but it carries two complete sets of markings. The men's layout and the women's layout are different enough that both must be tufted into the surface, and the cleanest way to do that is a factory inlay produced in the same dye lot as the green field carpet.
Men's markings include the goal-area lines set 18 m from the goal, wing lines running off the face-off X, the substitution gate at 13 M, and the face-off X itself. Women's markings use a different restraining line 25 m from each goal, a center circle of 9 m radius, and a goal circle of 3 m radius. Both sets are inlaid in contrasting colours — conventionally men's lines in white and women's lines in yellow — so players, officials and broadcast cameras can read the correct geometry at a glance.
The line turf itself is a meaningful quantity. A dual-line unified field typically consumes 200–300 m² of coloured line turf, slightly more than a single-sport layout would need because both geometries overlap inside the same footprint. That line turf is cut from the same production batch and dyed in the same lot as the green — a non-negotiable requirement, because a mismatched dye lot shows up as a visible colour step between the field and the lines that no amount of brushing will hide.
Additional sports can be added to the same batch. Football yard lines, centre circles for soccer, or boundary markings for field hockey can all be factory-inlaid alongside the lacrosse geometry, provided the layout is fixed before production begins. Once the order is locked, the factory cuts every line within the total carpet quantity.
A lacrosse field (110 m × 60 M) sits inside a FIFA football pitch (105 m × 68 M) with room to spare, and the two rectangles are close enough in area that many schools, Universitäten, and municipalities build one carpet and host both sports on it. This is one of the most common procurement patterns in multi-sport campus planning.
The shared field is built to the football width. Football is the wider of the two at 68 m versus lacrosse's 60 M, so the carpet is ordered to the football footprint and the lacrosse boundary is inlaid 4 m inside each touchline. Both line sets — football yard lines and lacrosse restraining lines — are factory-tufted in the same production run, so the surface arrives ready to play either sport the day it is installed.
The economics are decisive. Building two dedicated pitches — one lacrosse, one football — means two bases, two drainage systems, two lighting runs, and two separate carpet orders. A shared pitch folds both sports into a single 7,140 m² carpet and one set of infrastructure. The shared approach typically reduces total m² cost by roughly 30% against building two separate fields, which is why it dominates the university and municipal market.
Der 60 m Width Advantage: Clean Roll Math
Of every sport that buys artificial turf, lacrosse has the cleanest roll layout — and the reason is a single division. Standard sports turf is manufactured in rolls 4 m breit, and the unified field is exactly 60 m breit. Sixty divided by four is fifteen, with no remainder:
60 m ÷ 4 m per roll = exactly 15 strips — no fractional rolls, no offcuts
That clean division is why lacrosse generates less waste than almost any other field sport. Football at 68 m divides into 17 strips (still clean), but tennis, hockey and multisport courts produce awkward fractional strips that demand a 10% waste allowance. Lacrosse's 15-strip layout is the benchmark.
Length is where the small inefficiency hides. Each of the 15 strips must span the full 110 m length. A standard roll is 25 m lang, Also 110 ÷ 25 = 4.4 lengths per strip — meaning each strip needs five roll-lengths to reach the far endline, with a recoverable 15 m offcut per strip that becomes line turf and perimeter trim. Running the strips the other way (110 m ÷ 4 m = 27.5 strips × 25 M) is worse — it produces a half-strip and more seams.
The optimal layout is therefore 15 strips across the 60 m Breite, each strip running the full 110 m length, built from roughly 5 rolls per strip. For premium projects, the factory can also produce custom 110 m continuous-length rolls so each strip arrives seam-free.
Roll Layout and Total Quantities
With the geometry fixed, the total quantities fall out cleanly. The three configurations below cover the overwhelming majority of lacrosse orders — the unified field, the hockey-pitch modification, and the football-shared pitch.
| Configuration | Abmessungen | Field m² | + 5% Abfall | Brötchen (100 m²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unified field | 110 m × 60 M | 6,600 m² | 6,930 m² | 70 Rollen |
| Modified for hockey pitch | 91.4 m × 55 M | 5,027 m² | 5,278 m² | 53 Rollen |
| Shared with football | 105 m × 68 M | 7,140 m² | 7,497 m² | 75 Rollen |
Unified field: 6,930 m² ordered → 70 rolls of 4 m × 25 M
6,600 m² playing area + 5% waste allowance covers perimeter run-off, line inlay, and seam trim.
Price Tiers
FOB pricing for lacrosse carpet runs from $10 Zu $25 pro m², and the tier an order lands in is set by specification more than by raw volume. A community field running monofilament on a latex backing sits at the bottom of the band; a World Lacrosse certified surface with a performance pad and a tall, dense tuft sits at the top.
| Specification Tier | Typical Use | FOB Price / m² |
|---|---|---|
| School / community | 6,600 m² unified field | $10–18 |
| University / club | 6,600 m² unified field | $12–22 |
| World Lacrosse certified | 6,600 m² unified field | $15–25 |
Gewicht, Containers & Versand
Lacrosse has one of the cleanest shipping profiles of any field sport, because the unified field is sized to fit a single container. Sports turf weighs approximately 3.5 kg per m² — the combined weight of the tufted fiber, primary backing, and latex or polyurethane coating. A full 6,600 m² field therefore weighs:
6,600 m² × 3.5 kg/m² = 23,100 kg ≈ 23.1 tonnes
A 40 ft high-cube container carries a maximum payload of roughly 26–28 tonnes. Bei 23.1 tonnes, a single unified field sits comfortably under that cap, with enough headroom for the dunnage, Paletten, and loading tolerance a trans-Pacific shipment requires. One field, one container — that is the shipping advantage of the 110 m × 60 m footprint.
For multi-field orders the container count scales linearly: a two-field complex (46.2 t) needs two 40 ft HQ containers, a four-field campus (92.4 t) needs four. Rolled turf hits the volume ceiling before the weight ceiling, so each container holds roughly 8,000–8,500 m² — meaning a unified field's 6,930 m² order fills one box with room to spare.
Sample PO: A University Lacrosse Complex (2 Felder)
The worked purchase order below is a realistic bill of materials for a two-field university complex built to full World Lacrosse unified dimensions, carpeted in a single batch with dual men's and women's line inlays for both fields.
| Line Item | Quantity | Notizen |
|---|---|---|
| Field carpet (Grün) | ~13,860 m² | 2 × 6,930 m², includes 5% Abfall & line allowance |
| Brötchen (4 m × 25 M) | ~140 rolls | 100 m² per roll, single production batch & dye lot |
| Line turf (dual inlay) | ~500–600 m² | Men's white + women's yellow, within total order |
| Total weight | ~46.2 tonnes | At ~3.5 kg/m² across 13,200 m² |
| Containers | 2 × 40 ft HQ | One unified field per container |
| FOB value (university tier) | $166,000–305,000 | At $12–22/m² FOB |
Common Mistakes (Lacrosse-Specific)
Ordering separate men's and women's carpets instead of a unified field. Pre-2012 habits die hard. A buyer who specifies two rectangles pays for two production batches, two roll layouts, and two sets of waste — when one 6,600 m² unified order with dual line inlays would serve both programs at a fraction of the cost.
Forgetting dual line inlays and relying on painted lines. Painted lacrosse lines wear off inside a season of cleats and goal-crease traffic. Factory-inlaid lines last the life of the carpet. If the line set is not specified at quotation, the factory ships 100% green carpet and the markings must be cut on site — slower, less precise, and more wasteful.
Not matching dye lots between the green and the line turf. Line turf produced in a separate batch emerges a visibly different shade. The field and every line must come from one dye lot. Lock the line layout before production so all coloured turf is cut in the same run.
Using football-only width (68 M) when lacrosse only needs 60 M. A lacrosse-dedicated pitch does not need the extra 8 M. Ordering to football width on a lacrosse-only site pays for 880 m² of carpet (and its share of infill, freight, and base works) that never enters play. Only order the wider footprint if the field is genuinely shared with football.
Ignoring the 12 m space behind each goal line. Lacrosse is a live-play sport behind the goal. Der 110 m length is the playing rectangle; Die 12 m of run-off behind each endline is where attackmen and goalkeepers actually operate. Order the carpet to cover the full run-off zone, or the installer will be patching the ends with offcut strips.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
How much artificial grass do I need for one lacrosse field?
A regulation unified field is 110 m × 60 m = 6,600 m² of playing area. Hinzufügen 5% für Abfall, perimeter run-off, and dual line inlay brings the order to about 6,930 m² — roughly 70 rolls of 4 m × 25 M (100 m² pro Stück). One container ships it.
Are men's and women's lacrosse fields the same size?
Since the 2012 World Lacrosse (then FIL) General Assembly, Ja. Both codes play on the 110 m × 60 m unified field. Only the internal markings differ, so one carpet order with dual line inlays serves both programs.
How many containers does a lacrosse field need?
One. A 6,600 m² field at ~3.5 kg/m² weighs roughly 23.1 tonnes, comfortably under the 26–28 t payload of a 40 ft high-cube. A two-field complex needs two containers; a four-field campus needs four.
Can I share one carpet between lacrosse and football?
Ja. A FIFA football pitch at 105 m × 68 M (7,140 m²) easily contains the 110 m × 60 m lacrosse rectangle. Build to football width, inlay both line sets in one batch, and the surface hosts both sports — typically cutting total m² cost by about 30% versus two dedicated pitches.
Why does lacrosse have such a clean roll layout?
Der 60 m width divides exactly by the 4 m roll width — 60 ÷ 4 = 15 strips, no remainder. That clean division is why lacrosse generates less waste than almost any other field sport, and why a single field maps so neatly onto 70 standard rolls.
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