When buying the new sports floodlight for your newly constructed football pitch or planning to replace the existing metal halide or halogen lamps, the football field or stadium owner may wish to know the cost involved – that’s the cost of the football pitch floodlights and the subsequent running cost and maintenance cost. As an experienced football pitch floodlighting manufacturer, we are pleased to introduce to you some basic knowledge about the lighting cost. Let’s take a look!
Football pitch floodlights average price
The football ground lighting price depends on so many factors. If you need a quick answer, the average price for the flood lights is around $18,000 to $32,000 for training football pitches, and $50,000 to $90,000 for high school football stadium. For professional football stadium holding FIFA or Premier League matches, the price of floodlights will raise to $100,000 to $270,000.
However, this is just the lamp cost. According to our experience, the installation cost will be around 30% to 70% of the floodlights price. Some football pitch lighting installation company may even have higher fees, like 100% or even 150% of the lighting price, depending on the number of light poles, light pole height and complexity of the football pitch lighting design.
Factors affecting the cost of floodlights for football pitches
Truly, we cannot rely on a single factor when estimating the cost of football pitch floodlights, as the price will be totally different if the football pitch is inside the high school or a sports stadium. There are different lighting requirements for different venues; that’s why we need to look at the factors below to understand the price of the football ground flood lights.
1. Size of football field
The size does matter because we need more lumens to light up the larger football pitch. For instance, we need to install more lights for a standard football pitch than a futsal ground. This is because when calculating the cost of the lighting fixture, we are using this formula:
Lumen required = size of football pitch x lux requirement
The lumen needed will be directly proportional to the size of sports field and the lux requirement.
2. Lux and brightness requirement of football pitch
By looking at the formula above, we can discover that the lumen required for football pitch depends on lux requirement too. Higher lux requirement will in turn increase the price of the football ground floodlights. The lux will increase with level of competition. For instance, the football pitch for televised competition will have higher brightness than that of training field. Let’s take a look at the table below.
| Level of competition | Purposes | Lux for football pitch |
| I | Football training | 200 to 300 lux |
| II | Amateur football matches or more professional training | 300 to 500 lux |
| III | Community or regional competitions | 500 to 700 lux |
| IV | National football competitions (televised) | 1000 to 1200 lux horizontal, with vertical illumination requirement |
| V | International football tournament (televised) | 1400 to 2000 lux, with vertical illumination requirement |
So, we can see the illuminance required for international tournament (like FIFA) can be 5 to 10 times higher than that of training football pitch. We would expect that the football pitch lighting price will be 5 to 10 times higher as well if the venue is designed for televised, international football tournament.
3. Wattage required for football pitch flood lights
When calculating how much does the football pitch flood lights cost, we need to figure out the power required. The wattage of floodlights is highly related to lumen required and the luminous efficacy of the LED floodlights. For an amateur football pitch,
the lumen required = 500 lux x 7140 sq. meter x 1.2 light loss factor = 4,284,000 lumens
For the LED lights having 160 lumens per watt, the wattage of football pitch flood lights = 4,284,000 lumens / 160 lumens per watt = 26,775 watts. Thus, the total price of the floodlights become around $20,000 to $30,000, depending on the brand and type of floodlights. However, we should avoid the lights having the abnormal low price (says, $0.2 to $0.5 per watt) as those “sports lighting manufacturers” may provide you with the shoddy lights that may go off after using them for 6 months to 1 year.
Generally speaking, 1000W is the most commonly used floodlights for football pitch as it is strong enough to light up the distal region yet keeping a smaller amount of lights on the high mast pole. For your information, the price of 1000W football pitch flood lights can be ranged from $650 to $2000. The price will be different if you get them from manufacturer directly or distributor. So, when selecting the suitable flood lights for your football pitches, we can compare and contrast different products in order to get the best offer. Remember, never pick the abnormally low-priced offer as we will seldom get the quality products for such the extraordinary low price.
Football pitch floodlights pricing market research result summary
Our marketing research team compare up to 50 stadium lighting companies to figure out the average price range of the LED football ground floodlights. Let’s take a look at the summary of the results.
| Wattage | Price range | Median | Note |
| 1000W | $650 to $2000 | $755 | The lowest price ($350) is using the shoddy driver and LED chips |
| 500W | $300 to $800 | $420 | / |
| 300W | $200 to $500 | $240 | / |
| 100W | $70 to $190 | $89 | / |
We understand that different brands will have their pricing strategies. Besides, the price will vary with their origin. Says, the floodlights manufactured in US will be more expensive that that manufactured in East-Asian countries, according to our research.
Nonetheless, it is not the best practice to seek for the cheapest offer as quality is also an important consideration. Instead, we should look at the specifications of the floodlights, such as luminous efficacy, lumens, beam angle, LED chips, driver, the lighting design, and more. Contact our engineering team to get the free lighting design and photometric analysis report.
How to buy cheap floodlights for football ground – LED replacement?
There are many types of floodlights such LED, metal halide, halogen, mercury vapor and more. LED replacement is the trend because more and more stadium owners start to retrofitting their football pitch lights from MH to LED, because of the overwhelming advantages of LED lights.
More energy-saving and long-lasting is the major merits of LED football pitch floodlights. Imagine we need to replace the metal halide lights per 2 to 3 years, as well as the electricity cost of metal halide and other conventional lighting solution are very high. As our LED floodlights can last for around 100,000 to 150,000 hours, we can enjoy maintenance-free lighting for your football ground for around 30 to 50 years. So, LED floodlights would be a cheaper lighting solution for the football pitch.
Should you have any questions or lighting design requests, please feel free to contact our sales and engineers team by filling in the contact form. We provide you with the free DIALux lighting design and cheaper offer!
