Tottenham Hotspur Dividing Retractable Pitch
Tottenham Hotspur Dividing Retractable Pitch
When Tottenham Hotspur began designing their new stadium in London, they had one objective in mind - to create the world's very best sporting venue.
To help Tottenham Hotspur to achieve their vision, SCX Special Projects designed, engineered and installed the world's first dividing retractable football pitch.
The challenge
When Tottenham Hotspur FC embarked on its mission to replace the White Hart Lane Stadium, it aimed to create a “sport and leisure destination for London with a multi-use stadium capable of staging major sporting and non-sporting events.”
Making the stadium truly multi-use would require a feat of innovative engineering never seen before: a full-size Premier League pitch that would retract to reveal a synthetic NFL American football field beneath it
The solution
SCX Special Projects engineered a world-first solution that splits the real grass Premier League pitch into three sections before rolling it away into a storage area beneath the South Stand. The 10,000-tonne pitch takes just 25 minutes to retract.
In addition, the entire touchline, pitch surround and player tunnel ramps rise and fall through a height of 1.65m to meet the different levels of the grass and synthetic playing surfaces.
