{"id":3620,"date":"2026-10-16T08:42:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/lexikon\/artificial-turf-for-hockey\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:44:02","slug":"artificial-turf-for-hockey","status":"publish","type":"lexikon","link":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/artificial-turf-for-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Turf for Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Field hockey is played almost exclusively on artificial turf today. <strong>Hockey turf<\/strong> differs significantly from football or garden turf: the blades are short and very dense, ensuring the small ball rolls quickly and predictably. <\/p>\n<h2>Systems<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Irrigated pitches:<\/strong> common in international elite sports, the surface is watered before the game<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sand-filled or sand-dressed pitches:<\/strong> used in amateur and school sports<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dry systems:<\/strong> gaining importance due to water consumption concerns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A hockey field measures 91.4 \u00d7 55 m. You can find more pitch size comparisons in our <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/ratgeber\/football-pitch-size-dimensions-square-meters-and-hectares-at-a-glance\/\">Football Pitch Size<\/a> guide. For the care and cleaning of sports surfaces, please see <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/services\/artificial-grass-cleaning\/\">Artificial Turf Cleaning<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hockey turf is a short, very dense artificial grass on which the ball rolls quickly and evenly. In competitive sports, it is often irrigated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3620","lexikon","type-lexikon","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lexikon"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon\/3620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}