The FIFA Stadium Sports Lighting Solution

The FIFA Stadium Sports Lighting Solution


This article is about some FIFA sports lighting solutions we’ve done before for some of our customers. Hope that they can be helpful to the customers who need them.

The solutions are for reference only. As you know, different stadium fields have various data and require different requirements, it would be better to let us know your specific data of the field’s drawing and requirements. 

The contents are devided into 3 parts.
1. The international standard for FIFA Lighting
2. Romanso’s some FIFA solutions
3. Romanso’s solution for Class I 2000lux & for televising

The FIFA Lighting Standard
We make a simple chart to show the standards for all levels of FIFA according to the FIFA Lighting Guide below, then the customers can learn it clearly.



The following pictures from the FIFA Lighting Guide. They can allow you guys to know well.











Romanso’s some projects for FIFA Lighting Projects

1. FIFA Grade A, Eh ave>1500lux, U0>0.76
Customers’ requirements
* Dimensions: L105* W68m;

* 4x Light Poles Height: 35m

* Levels of Play: FIFA Grade A (Non-Televised)

* Eh ave: >1500lux

* Uniformity: 0.7- 0.8

Romanso’s solutions
* LED stadium lights: 128x 1200W, 15°
32pcs per pole, total 128pcs for 4 poles.
* Illuminance Required: 1559lux

* Uniformity: 0.76
* GR: <45

The esteemed customers are not in the LED lighting industry, they required us to offer a one-stop solution for this project, including the Dialux layout solution, high-quality LED stadium lights, light poles, the design drawing of the light poles, all the accessories for installing the light poles and lamps like relay, distribution boxes, cables, etc. We break down all the product details to help our customers know them clearly. Finally, the customers were satisfied with our one-stop lighting solution.

Considering the customers with a limited budget, we lower the quantities of the light poles. As you know, the costs of the light poles are very expensive, more quantities more costs. Surely, the uniformity of the 6 light poles may be much better than the 4 poles. But we need to design the right solution to meet the customer’s requirements.

For projects and clients with ample budgets, it should be suggested that more quantities of light poles or higher light poles achieve great lighting effects and outstanding uniformity.  

Plus, if the lighting project for Televising broadcast or higher illuminance and uniformity, they’re all available and the solutions will be different.

Here are some pictures can help them know well our solution below.

2. FIFA Grade 2, Eh ave>500lux, U0>0.6

Customers’ requirements
* Dimensions: L105* W68m;

* 8x Light Poles Height: 15-18m

* Levels of play：FIFA Grade 2-Match Practice (Non-Televised)

* Eh ave: >500lux

* Uniformity：0.6

Romanso’s solutions
* 8x Light Poles Height: 18m
* LED stadium lights: 24x 1200W 15&deg;& 16x 1200W 60&deg;
5pcs per pole, total 40pcs for 8 poles.
* Illuminance: 524lux

* Uniformity: 0.82
* GR: <50


From this lighting solution, we can find that the uniformity is really excellent! More light poles, more lamps, greater uniformity. Thus, the lighting effects are great! Do you like it?

Well, you may wonder that what is uniformity in lighting?
The uniformity of illuminance refers to the ratio of the minimum illuminance to the average illuminance on the specified surface. The more uniform the light distribution, the better the illuminance and the more comfortable the visual experience. The closer the illuminance uniformity is to 1, the better, otherwise the smaller the more visual fatigue. [From Google]

Thus, the outstanding uniformity is good for the players, spectators and referees. If the LED stadium lights with excellent uniformity, flicker-free, and low glare are perfect for televising broadcast and camera.

What is the general requirements for illumination uniformity?
TV television broadcast of domestic matches, horizontal illuminance uniformity of 0.5 or more, vertical illuminance uniformity of 0.4 or more.

The horizontal illuminance uniformity of 0.7 or more and the vertical illuminance uniformity of 0.6 or more for color TV broadcasting of international matches, and the ratio of the average horizontal illuminance to the average vertical illuminance is between 0.5 and 2.0.

Illumination requirements for the spectator stand: the average vertical illumination is 0.25 times the illumination of the competition area. [From Google]

3. Romanso Football Class I & TV, Eh ave>2000lux, U0>0.8

Customers’ requirements
* Dimensions: L113* W72m;

* 4x Light Poles Height: 65m

* Levels of play：Class I-Professional Level & for televised

* Eh ave: >2000lux

* U2h：>0.7

* GR: <50

* Lamps Power: 1200-1500W
* 3 lighting modes: Training 500lux, Maintenance 200lux & Emergency 10lux
* DMX smart control system

Romanso’s solutions
* 4x Light Poles Height: 65m
* LED stadium lights: 220x 1500W 15&deg;
55pcs per pole, total 220pcs for 4 poles.
* Eh ave: >2224lux

* Uniformity: 0.84
* GR: <50


To meet the high requirements for Televising broadcast and camera, we designed the uniformity greater than 0.8. And there are 3 lighting modes in our Dialux solution that address the customer’s needs.

Why they need 3 different lighting modes and how to use?

If a stadium field lighting system has 3 different lighting modes, then they can save much energy and lower the power consumption. Let’s take a look at the data about different levels of play below.

Professional Level & TV: 2000lux (International & National Competitions)

High-Level Training: 500lux (Customer requirement)

We can learn that the whole sports lighting system is over 2000lux, but this solution is only for Professional Level Use and is not often used yearly, it’s not appropriate to turn on all the sports lights when training, that will waste lots of energy and pay more electricity bills. But the training level requires 500lux, so there’s no need to light up the whole system at such a high illuminance of 2000lux.

With the DMX smart control system and our LED sports lights with dimming functions, customers can adjust the lighting output from over 2000lux to 500 and 200lux by DMX system easily.

Moreover, we can also check and do well the maintenance at some time by the maintenance lighting mode. The customers can check and test the LED stadium lights whether they’re good or not by the DMX system if needed, it’s quite vital and useful before the big events and professional competitions. If there are some unworked lights after checking, then we can take some new stadium lights to replace them to ensure the competition goes smoothly.

The Training Mode 500lux.

The Maintenance Mode 200lux.





Hope the details above are helpful for you guys.

Romanso has rich experience in LED stadium lighting for over 10 years, so you can trust us. If you have any sports lighting projects at hand or have any questions for us, just feel free to contact us at jerry@romanso.com.