Modern stadium lights are engineered for precision, intensity, and energy efficiency. Today’s top-tier football venues utilise LED stadium flood lights due to their instant-on functionality, longevity, and uniform beam spread.
A typical football stadium light must meet several performance criteria:
These luminaires are often arranged on stadium light poles or integrated into stadium roofing structures, depending on the architectural layout. For community or semi-pro clubs, modular mast systems using directional stadium flood lights provide an ideal balance of power and cost-efficiency.
Halliday Lighting specialises in designing bespoke stadium flood light solutions tailored to competition level, pitch orientation, and site-specific limitations.
Stadium lights — including tall-mounted stadium flood lights and LED football stadium lights — are essential for night-time matches, televised events and high-performance play.
How tall is stadium lighting?
Ultimately stadium lighting hight depends on the structure of the stadium itself and will therefore vary from one facility to the next. We have some articles on the lighting requirements for football, hockey and rugby.
Stadium floodlights can be mounted in a few different ways: on masts, over slung or underslung. The choice for this is dependent on the infrastructure of the stadium as well as the ground grading requirements for the facility.
Typically, stadium lights which are corner-mounted on masts will be at least 25m tall but tend to range between 20m and 40m.
For a stadium lighting system mounted on or in the roof, the height is partly determined by the dimensions of the stadium itself.
The mounting height and configuration of a stadium lighting system is assessed during the design phase of a project when a lighting designer will consider the required beam angle, shadowing, pitch layout, stadium infrastructure and necessary sports lighting standards to create a bespoke design.
In the UK, the height of football stadium lights can also vary depending on the level of the stadium and its specific requirements. Here are some general guidelines:
Lower League and Non-League Stadiums: Light poles are typically around 15 to 25 meters (approximately 50 to 82 feet) tall.
Professional League Stadiums (e.g., Championship, League One, League Two): Light poles are usually in the range of 25 to 40 meters (approximately 82 to 131 feet).
Premier League Stadiums: These often have lights mounted on tall poles or integrated into the stadium structure, usually ranging from 30 to 50 meters (approximately 98 to 164 feet) to ensure high-quality illumination suitable for television broadcasting and evening matches.
For Wakefield Trinity RLFC, we installed four 28-metre corner masts with 20 flood lights on each mast to deliver this upgraded LED floodlighting system at their stadium.
Ahead of a recent international tournament, our team installed 44 additional LED Stadium lights alongside the existing underslung fixtures to ensure Stadium MK met the requirements needed to host such a level of broadcast quality fixtures.
Next up: The cost of floodlights for sports
