White Horse constructs QPR’s hybrid pitch

Queens Park Rangers Football Club selected SAPCA member, White Horse Contractors, to reconstruct its Loftus Road Stadium pitch for the current football season. With more than 60 years of experience, White Horse Contractors designed and constructed the hybrid turf football pitch and completed the project in time for the start of the 2023-24 season.

The program of works included the new GrassMaster hybrid turf pitch, as well as upgrades to the irrigation system, the extension of the undersoil heating system and installation of the new artificial 3G surrounds and other pitch side infrastructure.

White Horse Contractors completed the work to incredibly tight deadlines and to the football club’s exact specifications.

QPR’s Head Groundsman, Dave Butler, said: “Our old pitch came to the end of its lifespan and had started to lose a bit of stability, so we decided we needed a new pitch.”

The project is the latest in a long-standing partnership between QPR and White Horse, which has also seen the company design and construct hybrid pitches at the club’s Heston training ground.