How to Choose the Best LED Football Field Floodlights?

Choosing a football stadium floodlight is a challenging task as it involves the selection of power, color temperature, beam angle, mounting bracket, and all other specifications. With advances in LED technology, LED stadium lights have become the dominant light source for outdoor and indoor stadiums. However, being more prevalent also means that there are millions of stadium lighting products on the market, so the question arises – how do you choose the best stadium lights?

There are many classifications of stadium lighting, such as floodlights, spotlights, high mast lights, high bay lights, HID, LED, metal halide, and more. If you’re a beginner in the lighting industry, it’s easy to get frustrated when you hear these terms. Nevertheless, they are not difficult to understand. The purpose of this article is to explain to you how to select the best lighting for your football field (or various sports fields).

How to choose the best football field lights and stadium flood lights?

Energy efficiency of stadium lighting

Believe it or not, LEDs are 2 to 3 times more energy efficient than metal halide, mercury vapor and metal halide lighting fixtures. This means that a 400W LED can replace a 1000W metal halide or even a 1500W mercury vapor stadium light. In this case, you can save up to 75% of energy after retrofitting a mercury vapor lamp. While one lamp is not as noticeable, if you look at a large scale, say 500+ lamps per stadium, the savings are huge.

In order to get the best LED stadium floodlights, we should select lighting fixtures with more than 160 lumens per watt. Thus, we can ensure that we can save up to 75% to 85% of energy after HID replacement in stadium lighting.

Warm-up time for football field lights

Traditional HID and metal halide lights require 10 to 20 minutes to warm up and cool down. This means we have to wait that long every time we turn the stadium lights on and off. This is not so convenient and professional. We can solve this problem by simply replacing the HID lights with LED stadium lighting.

Unlike traditional HID lights, LEDs can be turned on instantly, which means LED stadium lights can reach 100% brightness in less than a second. This feature is particularly useful for turning lights on and off between football games or other sports training. The reduced time also means lower power costs. Therefore, it is better to choose LED stadium lights.

Lifespan of the chosen sports lights

When choosing a stadium light, we also need to consider its lifespan. LedsMaster’s LED stadium lights have a life expectancy of over 150,000 hours, which is much better than HID lights. Believe it or not, HID lamps such as metal halide and halogen lamps only have a life span of 10,000 to 20,000 hours. We need to buy new HID lamps from time to time because they can easily fail. That’s why we need long-lasting LED floodlights for your stadiums, football fields and other sports venues. The message is that we need to consider choosing football field lights with a life expectancy of over 80,000 to 120,000 hours.

Wide range of stadium light beam angles

A good stadium lighting supplier should be able to offer football lights with a wide range of beam angles. This is because if we use different beam angles in the same field, we can greatly increase the uniformity of lighting in the football field. Since not all football and soccer fields are the same, we need more types of beam angles to suit different venues.

To provide you with the best sports lighting solutions, our stadium lights are available in different beam angles such as 10 degrees, 15 degrees, 20 degrees, 25 degrees, 40 degrees, 60 degrees, 90 degrees, 120 degrees, etc. Learn more and get a free lighting design from us today.

CRI of stadium lighting fixtures

The best stadium lights should have a high CRI. if the lights had a CRI, we would say that football players, spectators and cameras could see the true colors of the field and stadium facilities underfoot, which enhances the visual experience of a soccer game.

LedsMaster’s stadium lights have a particularly high CRI (95), which is very close to natural sunlight (CRI 100). With high CRI lighting, colors can be very vivid and look real.

Intelligent stadium lighting control

Another must-have stadium lighting feature is intelligent control, so we can control all of our stadium lights through different groups or even individual lights. All of LedsMaster’s stadium lights are DMX, DALI and 0 to 10V dimming compatible to accommodate different stadium lighting systems. We can control these lights wirelessly from a single panel, PC, iPad or even smartphone. We can adjust the brightness effortlessly.