The Chinese football pitch quality evaluation system: The establishment of a grading evaluation systemfor football pitch based on evaluation index recognition

As the basis of football sport, the quality of a football pitch directly affects the competition and appearance of the game. At present, all international football pitch evaluation systems are based on one of two approaches: “Through-type grading evaluation” or an “Average Importance Index”.In this study, we summarized the relevant standards of domestic and foreign publications, and screened the rating thresholds of football field quality evaluation indices and indicators to establish the standard categories. Through investigation ofexperts, football players, and football fans, we assessed awareness of the indicators, and found that those surveyed had significant differences in cognitive importance of the indicators, but had similar quality awareness and a tendency for some common core indicators. This proved that the traditional ways to evaluate and grade football pitches, including the average importance index or through-type grading evaluation, were not objective. Introducing cognition into an evaluation system and established as part of football pitch quality evaluation couldsolve the problem of lack of objectivity, and meet the users’ requirements, so as to build and manage football pitches better. This study makes the Chinese football pitch quality evaluation system more scientific and practical, and thus will improve the quality of the pitches to better meet the needs of users.