{"id":3745,"date":"2026-10-19T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/lexikon\/youth-football-pitch\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:48:49","slug":"youth-football-pitch","status":"publish","type":"lexikon","link":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/youth-football-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Football Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In children&#8217;s and youth football, games are not played on a full-sized pitch. Depending on the age group, there are <strong>youth pitches<\/strong> with smaller dimensions, smaller goals, and fewer players per team. This allows young players to have more ball contacts.  <\/p>\n<h2>Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Pitch size increases with age \u2013 from mini-pitches to full-sized pitches<\/li>\n<li>full-sized pitches are often divided crosswise into several youth pitches<\/li>\n<li>the exact specifications are provided by the DFB and state associations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Artificial Turf in Youth Football<\/h2>\n<p>Especially for clubs with many youth teams, an <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/artificial-turf-pitch\/\">artificial turf pitch<\/a> is attractive because it can withstand significantly more training hours than natural grass. All dimensions, from small-sided pitches to full-sized pitches, can be found in the guide <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/ratgeber\/football-pitch-size-dimensions-square-meters-and-hectares-at-a-glance\/\">Football Pitch Size<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A youth football pitch is a scaled-down football field for junior players. Its size, goals, and number of players depend on the age group. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3745","lexikon","type-lexikon","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon\/3745","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\/3745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}