A regulation US indoor soccer field is 185′ x 75′, and professional arena soccer is 200′ x 85′ — the same footprint as a hockey rink. Both need at least 20 feet of clear height, with 25 feet preferred. That means a clear-span steel building kit with no interior columns. Youth and small-sided fields start around 140′ x 60′, which is where most first facilities begin.
Building an indoor soccer facility comes down to one structural requirement: the field has to be a single uninterrupted space. No columns, no interior supports, nothing between the boards. That rules out most construction methods and makes a clear-span steel building kit the standard for indoor soccer across the country.
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Everything else follows from how big that span needs to be. This page covers the dimensions for every level of indoor play, what’s in the kit, how construction works, and what it costs — so you can size the project accurately before you talk to anyone about price.
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Indoor Soccer Field Dimensions
Indoor soccer has no single universal field size the way outdoor soccer does. Dimensions vary by level of play, by whether the facility uses boards, and by whether you’re building for indoor soccer or futsal — which are genuinely different sports with different fields.
| Level of play | Field dimensions | Minimum building | Clear height |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional arena (MASL) | 200′ x 85′ | 100′ x 215′ | 25’+ |
| US indoor standard | 185′ x 75′ | 85′ x 200′ | 20′ min, 25′ preferred |
| Competitive club | 165′ x 75′ | 85′ x 180′ | 20’+ |
| Youth / small-sided | 140′ x 60′ | 60′ x 155′ | 20′ |
| Futsal (FIFA) | 131′ x 66′ | 80′ x 150′ | 13′ min, 26′ international |
| Practice / training | 100′ x 50′ | 50′ x 110′ | 18’–20′ |
Across the full range, indoor soccer fields run roughly 140 to 210 feet long and 60 to 90 feet wide.
Arena soccer: 200′ x 85′
Professional arena soccer, played in the Major Arena Soccer League, uses a turf field approximately 200 feet long by 85 feet wide — the same dimensions as a standard hockey rink, which is exactly why arena soccer teams so often share venues with hockey franchises.
The field is enclosed by dasherboards topped with plexiglass, and the ball stays in play off the walls. Goals are set into the boards and measure 8 feet high by 14 feet wide. Teams field six players a side — a goalkeeper and five outfield players — across four 15-minute quarters, with unlimited substitution on the fly.
If you’re building to host arena-level play, the boards and glass are part of the structural planning, not an afterthought. They need anchoring, and the building has to accommodate them inside its footprint.
US indoor standard: 185′ x 75′
The most common size for a purpose-built commercial indoor soccer facility in the United States is 185 feet by 75 feet, with a 20-foot minimum ceiling. This is the size most leagues and pay-to-play facilities are built around, and it accommodates 6v6 and 7v7 play comfortably.
At 75 feet of width, this field needs a clear span your building kit has to deliver in one piece.
Youth and small-sided fields
Youth and recreational fields range from 140 to 210 feet long and 60 to 90 feet wide, with 140′ x 60′ a common entry point. Small-sided play — 4v4 and 5v5 — works well at these dimensions and lets a facility run multiple simultaneous games on a divided field.
A 60-foot width matters commercially as well as athletically: it’s the widest clear span that prices from our standard kit rates rather than requiring individual engineering. For a first facility on a tight budget, sizing at 60 feet wide is the single biggest cost lever available to you.
Futsal is a different build
Futsal is not indoor soccer played somewhere smaller. It’s a separate sport with its own governing rules, played on a hard court rather than turf, with no boards — the ball goes out of play at the touchline — and a smaller, heavier, low-bounce ball.
FIFA specifies 20m x 40m (roughly 66′ x 131′) for standard play, with international matches ranging from 38–42m long by 20–25m wide. Non-international courts can go as small as 25m x 16m (82′ x 52′). Goals are 2m x 3m — about 6.5′ x 10′.
Practically, this matters because a futsal court is smaller, cheaper, and needs no turf or dasherboards, but it does need a proper hard-court surface. Facilities that want both usually build to indoor soccer dimensions and mark futsal courts inside them.
Ceiling height
Twenty feet is the working minimum for indoor soccer and it is a genuine minimum, not a recommendation — a lower ceiling changes how the game is played, because lofted balls hit the roof and stop play constantly.
Twenty-five feet is what you want if the budget allows. Facilities built at 20 feet function; facilities built at 25 feet play properly. Futsal is more forgiving at 13 feet minimum, though FIFA specifies 26 feet for international competition.
Remember that clear height is not eave height. On a rigid-frame building the rafter at the peak sits well above the frame at the sidewall, so a building advertised at 25 feet of eave may deliver noticeably less usable clearance near the walls. Specify clear height at the sidewall when you request a quote.
What Size Building Kit You Need
Indoor Soccer Field Size
The building is always larger than the field. You need space beyond the touchlines for the boards or run-off, plus circulation, plus whatever support space the facility requires.
| Field | Building footprint | Sq ft | Clear span |
|---|---|---|---|
| Practice / training (100′ x 50′) | 50′ x 110′ | 5,500 | 50′ |
| Youth / small-sided (140′ x 60′) | 60′ x 155′ | 9,300 | 60′ |
| Futsal (131′ x 66′) | 80′ x 150′ | 12,000 | 80′ |
| US standard (185′ x 75′) | 85′ x 200′ | 17,000 | 85′ |
| Arena (200′ x 85′) | 100′ x 215′ | 21,500 | 100′ |
Clear span is the number that drives everything. A 60-foot span is standard engineering. An 85-foot span is a meaningfully heavier frame. A 100-foot span is heavier again. When you compare quotes, compare spans first and square footage second — a wider building at the same area costs more, not less.
Add to the field footprint anything the facility needs alongside it: locker rooms, restrooms, a reception desk, concessions, equipment storage, and spectator seating. Bleachers in particular change both the footprint and the occupancy classification, which changes your permitting path. Decide on seating before the building is engineered.
For facilities at or under 60 feet wide, our 60×120 building kit and 50×100 kit are the closest standard sizes, and every kit size is priced individually.
What’s Included in an Indoor Soccer Field Kit
A steel building kit is the complete structure, delivered to your site ready to assemble:
- Primary steel frame — clear-span rigid frames engineered for your span and height, with no interior columns
- Secondary framing — purlins and girts
- Roof and wall panels with your choice of color
- Doors — walk doors and framed openings sized for equipment access
- Engineering and stamped drawings for your specific jurisdiction’s wind, snow, and seismic loads
- Anchor bolt plans and erection drawings
- Delivery to your site
- 50-year structural warranty
What the kit does not include: the concrete foundation, erection labor, turf, boards, lighting, HVAC, and interior finish. Those are contracted separately, and the section below explains why that usually works in your favour.
Indoor Soccer Field Construction: Kit vs. Turnkey
There are two ways to build an indoor soccer facility, and the difference in total cost is substantial.
Turnkey means one contractor handles everything — building, foundation, erection, turf, finish — and hands you the keys. Simple, and you pay for that simplicity. A general contractor marks up the building itself, then marks up every subcontractor.
Kit-direct means you buy the steel building at wholesale and contract the foundation, erection, and finish trades yourself or through a local builder. You take on coordination; you keep the margin that would otherwise be spread across a contractor’s markup on every line.
For an indoor soccer facility, kit-direct usually wins on cost — and the gap widens as the building gets bigger, because a percentage markup on a $200,000 structure is a lot of money. The buildings we ship are engineered and stamped for your jurisdiction, so a local erector has everything they need without a design-build contract on top.
Kit-direct is the right call if: you already have a contractor or erector relationship, you can manage a permitting process, and you’re comfortable coordinating a handful of trades in sequence.
Turnkey is worth the premium if: this is your first construction project of any size, your timeline is fixed to a league season with no slack, or you simply want one phone number to call.
Either way, you’re buying the same building. The question is only who assembles it and who coordinates the trades around it.
Typical timeline
| Stage | Duration |
|---|---|
| Design and engineering | 2–4 weeks |
| Permitting and approvals | 4–16 weeks — the main variable |
| Kit fabrication and delivery | 6–12 weeks after approved drawings |
| Foundation | 2–4 weeks |
| Erection | 3–8 weeks depending on span |
| Turf, boards and interior finish | 4–12 weeks |
Foundation work often runs in parallel with fabrication, which is the easiest schedule compression available on these projects.
Permitting and engineering
Indoor soccer facilities classify as public assembly occupancy, which brings egress, fire suppression, accessibility, and often parking requirements a storage building never triggers. Start the conversation with your building department before you finalise the design, not after — permitting is routinely the longest stage of the project.
Every kit ships with drawings stamped for your local wind, snow, and seismic loads, which is what your building department will ask for first.
Choosing Indoor Soccer Field Builders
If you’re going kit-direct, you’re hiring an erector rather than a design-build contractor — a narrower job, and usually a considerably cheaper one. Three questions separate builders who have done this from builders who haven’t:
Have they erected a clear span at your width before? A 60-foot span is routine for any commercial erector. An 85 or 100-foot span is specialist work with different equipment and rigging.
Who is coordinating the turf installer with the slab? Turf systems have substrate and drainage requirements that must be specified before the concrete is poured. This is the single most common expensive mistake on these projects, and it happens when nobody owns the handoff.
Who owns the permitting? Public assembly occupancy is where inexperienced builders lose months. Establish this in writing before work starts.
See how to hire a general contractor and the building process for more on managing the trades.
Indoor Soccer Facility Design
Design decisions are worth making in a specific order, because several of them are irreversible once the slab is poured.
Field orientation and count. Decide whether the building holds one full field or a divisible field that splits into two or three small-sided pitches. Divisible layouts generate far more revenue per hour from youth programming, and the decision affects netting, lighting zones, and building width.
Boards or run-off. Board-enclosed fields play faster and need less perimeter space, but the boards are a real cost. Open-touchline fields need several feet of run-off beyond each line, which means a wider building. Cheaper structure, more square footage — the trade runs both ways.
Turf and surface. Turf pile height, infill type, and shock pad all affect play and all sit on the slab. Specify the turf system before the foundation, not after — retrofitting drainage or a different substrate is expensive and slow.
Lighting. Aim for even coverage without glare at ball height. LED systems are standard now and the operating cost difference over a facility’s life is substantial. Lighting mounts to the frame, so the layout has to be known during engineering.
Netting and ball containment. Overhead and perimeter netting protects spectators and support spaces. It anchors to the structure, which again means specifying it during design.
HVAC and ventilation. Indoor soccer facilities generate a lot of heat and humidity from active players. Under-specified ventilation is one of the most common complaints from facility operators, and it’s much cheaper to size correctly upfront.
Support spaces. Locker rooms, restrooms, reception, concessions, offices, and equipment storage. A mezzanine along one sidewall is an efficient way to add spectator seating and office space without extending the footprint — but it must be designed in, because retrofitting a mezzanine into an erected building is costly.
Indoor Soccer Field Kit Cost
Indoor soccer buildings sit at the larger end of the steel building range, where cost per square foot is lower. But clear span pushes back — above roughly 60 feet of width, the primary frames get substantially heavier and the rate climbs with every additional foot.
That means a per-square-foot figure is only reliable up to 60 feet of width. Here’s what we can price directly:
| Build | Footprint | Sq ft | Kit only | Turnkey |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practice / training facility | 50′ x 100′ | 5,000 | $76,400 – $89,700 | $114,200 – $134,100 |
| Small-sided field | 60′ x 120′ | 7,200 | $105,900 – $124,400 | $161,200 – $189,200 |
| Youth field | 60′ x 140′ | 8,400 | $121,600 – $142,700 | $186,400 – $218,800 |
Kit-only covers the delivered steel structure — frame, panels, doors, and engineering stamped for your local code. Turnkey adds foundation and professional erection.
For a regulation 185′ x 75′ field or a 200′ x 85′ arena, the 75- and 85-foot clear spans put the frame outside what a size-based rate can predict accurately. Quoting those from square footage alone would understate them, so we price them individually rather than publish a number we can’t stand behind. Request a quote and we’ll engineer it to your span, height, and local loads.
You can also estimate a building cost by size and state for facilities 60 feet wide and under.
Budget beyond the kit
The structure is typically 40–60% of an indoor soccer project. Plan for:
| Item | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Foundation | From ~$10,000, scaling with area |
| Erection | $3–$5 per sq ft |
| Turf system | Often the largest single line after the building |
| Dasherboards and glass | Significant if building for arena play |
| LED lighting | Varies with mounting height and coverage |
| HVAC | Higher than a comparable warehouse |
| Netting, goals, markings | Modest by comparison |
See foundation options for slab specifications, and metal building prices for how costs scale with size generally.
Why a Steel Kit for Indoor Soccer
Clear span is the entire argument. A soccer field cannot have a column in it, and pre-engineered steel spans 60 to 200+ feet column-free at a cost no other method approaches at that width.
Four things beyond span matter for soccer facilities specifically:
- Height without penalty. Getting to 25 feet of clearance is a design parameter on a steel frame, not a structural reinvention.
- Speed. Kit fabrication and erection run faster than conventional construction, which matters when a facility needs to open for a league season.
- Expansion. Steel buildings extend along their length by adding bays. A facility designed with expansion in mind can add a second field later without touching the original structure — worth designing in even if you never use it.
- Attachment points. Netting, lighting, scoreboards, and divider curtains all hang from the frame. A steel structure gives you engineered attachment throughout.
Related facilities: indoor sports complex buildings for multi-sport layouts, indoor football practice facilities, and the full range of indoor sports facility buildings.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are indoor soccer field dimensions?
The US indoor standard is 185 feet long by 75 feet wide with a 20-foot minimum ceiling. Professional arena soccer uses 200′ x 85′ — the same footprint as a hockey rink. Youth and recreational fields range from 140 to 210 feet long and 60 to 90 feet wide. Futsal, a separate sport played on hard court, uses roughly 66′ x 131′.
What size building kit do I need for an indoor soccer field?
Larger than the field itself. A regulation 185′ x 75′ field needs about an 85′ x 200′ building; a youth 140′ x 60′ field needs roughly 60′ x 155′. Add space for boards or run-off, circulation, and any locker rooms, restrooms, or seating.
How much does an indoor soccer field kit cost?
For buildings up to 60 feet wide, kit-only pricing runs about $76,400 for a 50′ x 100′ training facility up to $121,600–$142,700 for a 60′ x 140′ youth field. Regulation and arena-size fields have 75- to 85-foot clear spans that need individual engineering, so we quote those directly rather than estimate from square footage. Budget an additional 40–60% beyond the kit for turf, lighting, HVAC, boards, and site work.
Is a kit cheaper than hiring a contractor to build it?
Usually, yes — and the gap widens as the building gets bigger, because a general contractor’s percentage markup on a $200,000 structure is significant money. Buying the kit at wholesale and contracting erection and finish trades yourself keeps that margin. The trade-off is that you coordinate the trades instead of paying someone to do it. If you already have a contractor relationship and can manage permitting, kit-direct is almost always the lower total cost.
How tall does an indoor soccer facility need to be?
Twenty feet of clear height is the working minimum — below that, lofted balls hit the roof and interrupt play constantly. Twenty-five feet is what you want if the budget allows. Arena-level facilities should plan for 25 feet or more. Note that clear height at the sidewall is less than eave height on a rigid-frame building, so specify which you mean when requesting a quote.
What’s the difference between indoor soccer and futsal?
Different sports. Indoor soccer is played on turf, usually inside dasherboards with the ball live off the walls, six a side. Futsal is played on a hard court with no boards, the ball goes out at the touchline, and it uses a smaller low-bounce ball. Futsal courts are smaller — about 66′ x 131′ versus 185′ x 75′ — and need no turf or boards, which makes them considerably cheaper to build.
How long does it take to build an indoor soccer field?
Kit fabrication and delivery typically run 6–12 weeks after engineering approval, erection 3–8 weeks depending on span, and turf and interior finish several weeks more. Permitting is the biggest variable at 4–16 weeks, and longer for public assembly occupancy — which indoor soccer facilities almost always trigger.
Can an indoor soccer building be divided into smaller fields?
Yes, and it’s usually the better revenue model. A divisible layout with netting or curtain dividers lets one full field run as two or three small-sided pitches for youth programming. The decision affects building width, lighting zones, and netting anchors, so make it during design rather than after.
Do I need a special foundation for indoor soccer?
Yes. Turf systems have their own substrate and drainage requirements that sit on top of the slab, so the turf system has to be specified before the concrete is poured. Getting this sequence wrong is the most common expensive mistake on these projects.
Can I add a second field later?
Steel buildings extend along their length by adding bays, so a facility designed for future expansion can add capacity without altering the original structure. The provision costs very little at the design stage and a great deal to retrofit.
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