Southampton Football Club, Staplewood Campus

New training pitch for the Saints

MJ Abbott successfully tendered the project to reconstruct Pitch 2 from a fibre surface to hybrid. PSD were employed to oversee construction, materials specification approval and performance testing.

The scope of works comprised:

• Excavate 150mm depth from existing pitch area of 11,700m²
• Fibre material was stripped separately and transported to a local club for re-use
• Grade retained lower sand profile to re-establish pitch levels
• Import and spread 50mm depth of compatible sand and 100mm depth of approved rootzone
• Pitch extension construction, comprising irrigation, drainage, gravel raft, lower and upper rootzone
• Installation of amendments, preparation of surface and seeding
• Installation of SISGrass hybrid pitch reinforcement system
• Overseeding surface following stitching
• Construction of concrete retaining wall and installation of gates.