A field-based analysis of artificial football pitches with different vegetal infills
Jorge García-Unanue·Antonio Alonso-Callejo·Katie L. Mills·Mickael Benetti·Alvaro Medina-Sanchez·Johsan Billingham·Leonor Gallardo·Jose Luis Felipe
This study compared the effects of artificial football surfaces incorporating different vegetal infills on players’ physical performance. It also examined how these systems differed from natural grass and from traditional third‑generation artificial turf using recycled rubber from end‑of‑life tyres. A quasi-experimental field design was conducted with 30 amateur male football players who completed a standardised battery of sprint, agility, and fatigue tests across seven surface types: five artif