The management of the Liverpool FC Academy have been relying on synthetic pitches since 1998. In 2009, further advances in product quality inspired them to fit out the academy’s training ground with Polytan LigaTurf RS+ – the world’s leading synthetic turf system with FIFA Recommended 2 Star certification. John Owens, a former manager of the Liverpool FC Academy, expressed his delight at this decision: “The LigaTurf 240 RS+ is even better than the tried-and-tested, high-performance LigaTurf 240 synthetic turf. The first time we played a match on it, we knew that the pitch was exactly what we required.”