REPLICA GRASS

World Rugby Regulation 22 refers to artificial turf and regulates standards to ensure player safety. World Rugby has produced the Rugby turf performance specification to set a minimum standard for artificial playing surfaces which may be used in Rugby.
The Rugby turf performance specification stipulates the testing and approval procedures which manufacturers and other entities involved in the installation of artificial playing surfaces must comply with in order for their products to be approved for use in Rugby.
The Game may not be played on any artificial surface which does not meet the Rugby turf performance specification and the requirements of Regulation 22 and Law 1 of the Laws of the Game.
The suitability of an artificial playing surface for rugby depends on the surface layer, the preparation of the sub-base and the composition of the existing sub-soil.
Therefore, testing of the surface will necessarily involve laboratory tests and field tests.
A surface can only be certified as meeting the Rugby turf performance specification upon the successful completion of both the laboratory tests and field tests. Accordingly, only installed Rugby turf surfaces which have been tested and proved to meet the Rugby turf performance specification will be permitted for use in rugby.