World Cup Game Is First To Be Lit With LED

The First World Cup game to be lit with LED will kick off on Friday.

Egypt will play Uruguay at the Ekaterinburg Arena under a new LED lighting installation designed to facilitate 4K and UHDTV transmissions and flicker-free super slow-motion action replays.

From top: Fisht Stadium (Pic: Oleg Bkhambri Voltmetro); Ekaterinburg Arena and the Mordovia Arena in Saransk

Supplier Signify promised the billions of television viewers worldwide that the cameras would capture ‘all the drama on the pitch, every bead of sweat, taught muscle and grimace’. The LED pitch lighting can also be controlled and synced to music to create spectacular pre-match entertainment.

Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium features a spectacular 39,000 square meter LED media roof which will build excitement for fans across the city by creating unique light shows, before, during and after games.

Of the 12 venues used, the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow and the Saint Petersburg Stadium (the two largest stadiums in Russia) will be used most, with seven matches being played at each of these stadiums.

Sochi, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara will host 6 matches including one quarter-final match apiece, and the Otkrytiye Stadium in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don will host five matches apiece including one round of 16 match each.

Volgograd, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg, and Saransk will host four matches each and none of these cities will host any knockout stage games.

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