FIFA, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association is an alliance governed by Swiss law founded in 1904 and based in Zurich. It has 208 member associations and its goal is the constant improvement of football. FIFA, the world’s football governing body has made it their mission to, “develop the game, touch the world, build a better future.”

Synthetic Pitch Testing

FIFA has obtained significant testing, medical research and player feedback in order to understand the playability, safety and performance of a perfect natural grass pitch. As a result, the FIFA Quality Concept was developed to identify the best artificial turf pitches. In fact, synthetic turf is now allowed in FIFA's Rules of the Game. A synthetic grass system can earn a FIFA Recommended Certificate through a FIFA Quality Concept licensee by proving through extensive laboratory and field testing that it performs like natural grass.

Sport Performance and Quality Standards

STI fully supports the FIFA Quality Concept as the standards were based upon natural grass benchmarks. STI uses these natural grass benchmarks in its product development, quality standards and sport performance test methods as they were based upon top professional natural grass stadiums. These methods employed by FIFA combine durability, climatic resistance, player-to-surface interaction and ball-to-surface interaction standards.

1.Durability 2.Player / Surface Interaction 3. Ball / Surface Interaction

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