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How the grants work

Grants available for hybrid pitches. Play longer, play harder, all weather. Hybrid grass and synthetic pitches for Irish sports clubs, built for winter and free of rubber crumb.

Sporting options
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GAA

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Soccer

Hybrid turf is becoming increasingly popular in the soccer world.

Eco Pitch Ireland have teamed up with global hybrid turf manufacturers, leading pitch designers and agronomists to bring you hybrid natural grass surfaces and engineered drainage systems, ensuring your club and community can play longer, play harder, all weather.

Eco Pitch Ireland have the perfect solution for soccer pitches:

  1. New-build hybrid pitches, combining an artificial carpet with natural grass growing through it
  2. Hybrid carpet overlaid on existing surfaces
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Rugby

Rugby in Europe has developed from sodden local grounds to prestige facilities. Eco Pitch Ireland provides natural grass and engineered hybrid options, which cater for the modern-day challenges of increased rainfall, more intensive use and player safety through a longer season.

We offer optimal drainage systems, ground stability, the right pile height and a surface players don't slip on. Our bespoke hybrid rugby options are designed with head-to-ground impact in mind.

Our Hybrid Champion surface is independently tested and meets World Rugby and FIFA benchmarks. Amateur clubs, professional clubs and provincial schools can all have a sustainable pitch on a budget.

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Two putting surfaces side by side, labelled Before and After: before, worn through to its backing and marked with a cross; after, even and unmarked and marked with a tick

Golf

There is more golf played in Ireland than ever before and more traffic on the winter courses. In wetter conditions more courses close, which leads to a loss of revenue and, more importantly, a loss of reputation.

Golf courses need authentic, natural-looking surfaces

Golf clubs and commercial resorts are slow to introduce artificial surfaces. Our Eco Pitch golf options are:

  • Hybrid tee boxes and pathways, with a protective surface layer and natural grass growing through
  • Hybrid buggy trails
  • Engineered grid drainage systems

All of this preserves the natural appearance and sustainability of your course.

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One plan for all-weather and artificial?

Eco Pitch will design the playing surface according to your club's needs. Our engineers and approved Eco Pitch contractors will deliver the final finish surface on your ground.

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All-weather designs

Eco Pitch designs all-weather surfaces with an engineered drainage system aimed to maximise playing hours and pitch use. Hybrid and synthetic, natural and artificial, technology combined.

6G Hybrid All-Weather

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Source

Partnered with global polymer manufacturers, we specify the density, usage and weather demands of the surface, carpet and drainage materials for bespoke manufacture to the needs of your pitch. High-density plastic (HDPE), sustainability, unique integrated drainage and irrigation systems make up your 6G hybrid pitch.

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Pitch building

From initial survey and structural engineering to hybrid surfacing and grass seeding. We supervise pitch building with experienced engineers and world-renowned pitch-building agronomists.

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  1. Unique hybrid 6G surface

    Natural grass grown through our patented carpet, built to stay open in winter.

    Three all-weather options
    A finished hybrid pitch in front of a covered stadium stand

  2. Durable carpet mesh with natural grass growing through

    Hybrid carpet protects the roots and crowns of natural grass, so the grass stays under the studs and is never damaged.

    Hybrid Champion in detail
    Close up of the Hybrid Champion carpet: green fibres standing out of an open white mesh

  3. Unique fast drainage and irrigation system

    Protected by a synthetic, sustainable HDPE cell drainage system under the pitch.

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    Our crew laying the drainage grid on the stone bed at Lakeview, Claregalway, with the GAA goals behind

  4. Surface water harvesting and refertilisation

    Groundwater recycling: surface water is fed back into the irrigation.

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  5. No rubber crumb

    Rubber-crumb infill cannot be sold in the EU from October 2031. None of our surfaces use it.

    The 2031 ban explained
    A football boot kicking loose black rubber crumb out of a synthetic pitch

Independently tested

Our Hybrid Champion surface meets World Rugby and FIFA benchmarks.

SGS tested a sample of the carpet against all 253 REACH Substances of Very High Concern. None were detected.

The SGS test report is available to any club that asks.

Test reports and a quality certificate held by our carpet manufacturer

The trial pitch at Lakeview, Claregalway

A trial section of Hybrid Champion is going in now at the Claregalway GAA pitch. Once it is down, come and walk on it.

Until then, we bring samples of all three surfaces to your ground.

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We walk the pitch with you, measure it and give you one written price.

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