The FIFA Quality Programme has selected Signify as a Preferred Provider for floodlights, recognising that the company's lighting solutions meet the football governing body's highest quality standards. The designation establishes Signify as a trusted and recommended provider within the global football industry.
As a FIFA Preferred Provider for Floodlights (FPP), Signify meets rigorous product, production, and system infrastructure performance requirements. The company will also collaborate with the FIFA Quality Programme to drive research and development in sports floodlighting, advancing future technical standards.
The recognition reflects the transformative impact Signify's floodlights have already made on the game-day experience. World-class illumination ensures optimal match conditions for players, spectators, and millions of TV viewers worldwide. Superior lighting also plays a critical role in supporting optical-based technologies such as video assistant referee systems, goal-line technology, and optical tracking.
Stadium lighting from Signify extends beyond functionality, creating opportunities for additional entertainment at major events through customised light shows before, during, and after matches.
Stadiums working with Signify as part of its FPP status can draw on a wide range of technology, including:
- Arenavision LED gen3.5: innovative LED pitch-lighting that offers outstanding light quality, effective thermal management, a long lifetime, and is compatible with control applications, such as the Signify Interact Sports Professional lighting management system, which enables remote light management and scheduling. The system is compliant with international broadcasting standards for any sport.
- OptiVision LED gen3.5 floodlighting system: a complete solution for the simplest to the most complex recreational sports. It meets the highest performance standards, provides outstanding light quality, uniformity, and ensures safety and visual comfort.
The wide range of optics ensures precise light distribution with minimum spill light and, when combined with controls, enables additional energy savings of up to 65%.
Each lighting system can be managed remotely across the venue, including pitch, stadium façade, and hospitality areas, helping to improve operational efficiency.
Signify floodlighting is currently being used at world-class stadiums across the globe, including Stadion Feijenoord in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where a new Arenavision lighting system has improved the match-day experience for all and provides energy savings of 63% compared to previous systems.
Niels Geven, Signify’s international director, Sports and Arenas, said, “This recognition from FIFA, which is responsible for some of the world’s most prestigious and watched sports events, is an important milestone for Signify and a reflection of our leadership in sports lighting. High-quality illumination is hugely important in modern-day sport, especially top-flight football. It’s vital for player performance, officiating and broadcasting purposes, and an essential part of the match-day fan experience.”
Signify has over 60 years of experience in sports lighting across a range of sports, including football, hockey, basketball, cricket, and tennis. The world leader in lighting is also the official lighting partner of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula 1 team.
