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Sports clubs by sport · SP-21
Pitch Inspection and Marking Record
A free printable pitch inspection sheet with a marking log — the pre-match walk-over for surface, goals, flags and hazards, and when the lines went down.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
Show the referee and the league what the pitch was like when it was checked, and know how much paint the season actually uses before you reorder.
Who it is for
Groundsmen, fixture secretaries and the volunteer who walks the pitch on a Saturday morning for a football, rugby or hockey club on grass.
How to use it
- Walk the whole pitch before each fixture — goalmouths, touchlines and behind the goals — and fill in one inspection line.
- Write down any hazard you found and cleared, even if the pitch was fit to play.
- Log every marking as it is done: which lines, what product, how much it took.
- Note the weather and wear beside each marking so next season can see the pattern.
- Keep the sheet with the pitch, not in the clubhouse, for the season.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: The groundsman's two records for a grass pitch — the walk-over before each fixture, and the marking log of when the lines went down and with what.
What was found, not what the rule is. What makes a pitch unplayable is the referee's decision on the day and your league's rule. This sheet records what you found and what you did about it.
Write-on lines: Club / ground · Pitch · Season · Groundsman
Pre-match inspection — one line per fixture — walk the whole pitch, goalmouths and touchlines
Table, 5 rows: Date · Fixture · Surface · Goals & nets · Flags & lines · Hazards · Fit? · Inspected by
Marking record — one line each time lines are put down or refreshed
Table, 4 rows: Date · Pitch · Lines marked · Product · Qty used · Machine · Marked by · Notes
Questions
Why does the sheet not say what makes a pitch unplayable?
Because that is the referee's decision on the day and your league's rule, and both vary. The sheet records what you found — the surface, the hazards, whether it was judged fit — so there is a record if the call is questioned.
What goes in the quantity column?
Whatever you measure paint in — tins, litres, bags of powder. It is your own figure, in your own units; the point is to see how much a set of lines really costs your club over a season.
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