The SIS Grass Hybrid revolution at Chelsea FC continues

Following our successful SIS Grass Hybrid field installation in 2015 for Chelsea FC on their academy game field, the club requested a further 40,000m2 of SIS Grass Hybrid across two further areas at the club’s Cobham training ground in Surrey.

Premier Pitches, along with MJ Abbott, carried out field re-construction works ahead of the SIS Grass Hybrid installations. The SIS Grass Hybrid was installed using two machines running 24 hours a day, stitching a total of 48,000kg of Bonar Yarns yarn at 2 x 2cm centers to a depth of 180mm and leaving 20mm of fiber above ground.

In the first area, used by the Academy teams, the new grass was allowed to establish for three weeks before the installation of SIS Grass Hybrid commenced towards the end of April. This was an area of 18,744m2 which was made up of two full-size fields and training areas. Installation on this phase was completed on 7th May.

On the second area, which will be used by the Chelsea first team, stitching commenced shortly after the new seed was germinating, so we were stitching into a very open, surface of 21,240m2. This is made up of two full-size pitches, training areas and a dedicated goal keepers’ area. The work was completed at the end of May.