The technical sports atlas
Every field.
Every line.
Every story.
Official dimensions, original perspective diagrams and marking guides for eight surfaces, plus the first of the planning tools — each figure traced back to the rule that defines it.
- Sourced from governing bodies
- Feet and meters, side by side
- Original plans, drawn in-house
The index
Start with a surface
Every plan below is drawn to scale and measured in both systems, and each one opens on a guide with a perspective diagram of the surface and its equipment.
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Tennis
Tennis court
Singles and doubles share one rectangle; the alleys add 4 ft 6 in on each side.
78 × 36 ft · 23.77 × 10.97 m
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Basketball
Basketball court
The rim is 10 ft above the floor everywhere; the lane and the three-point line are not.
94 × 50 ft · 28.65 × 15.24 m
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Badminton
Badminton court
Doubles and singles use different sidelines and different back service lines.
44 × 20 ft · 13.40 × 6.10 m
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Soccer
Soccer pitch
The laws allow a range of sizes; 105 by 68 m is the professional standard.
115 × 74 yd · 105 × 68 m (typical)
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Pickleball
Pickleball court
The same footprint as a doubles badminton court, with a 7 ft non-volley zone.
44 × 20 ft · 13.41 × 6.10 m
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Baseball
Baseball field
Only the infield is fixed: 90 ft between bases, and no two outfields alike.
90 ft bases · 27.43 m
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Volleyball
Volleyball court
Nine meters square on each side of the net, with the attack line 3 m back.
59 × 29.5 ft · 18 × 9 m
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Football
Football field
One hundred yards of play, two 10-yard end zones, and a hash mark every yard.
120 × 53.3 yd · 109.7 × 48.8 m
Inside a guide
From one number to the whole plan.
A guide opens with the measurement you searched for, then widens out: the drawing that places it on the court, the marking detail around it, and the rule that fixes the figure. The card on the right is the summary that sits at the top of every one of them.
- Essential measurements firstLength, width and playing area are on screen before any prose.
- Both unit systemsFeet and meters side by side, converted from the value the rule book publishes.
- Every figure tied to its ruleEach number names the governing body and the document it comes from.
Basketball court — NBA regulation
Professional full court
Length
94 ft 28.65 mWidth
50 ft 15.24 mArea
4,700 sq ft 436.6 m²The standard
Accuracy you can inspect.
Every figure here is traced to a rule book, recalculated, and dated.
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Find the governing rule
We start from the body that writes the rule and from the edition that is current: the ITF for tennis, the BWF for badminton, and the NBA for the basketball courts drawn on this page. FIBA sizes its court differently, so every figure names the book it follows, and the clause is recorded next to the figure it produced.
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Recalculate every figure
Each dimension is converted once, from the unit the rule book publishes, and rounded only at the last step. Nothing is copied from another site; where two sources disagree, both are shown.
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Draw the plan ourselves
Every diagram is an original SVG drawn from the same figures the page publishes, at the scale the rule book sets. No federation artwork is traced or reused.
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Publish the source and the date
Each page names the rule book it follows and the day it was last checked. That is what makes a number here something you can verify instead of trust.
Work with the numbers
Tools for real projects
A rule book gives you a dimension. A build needs an area, a length and a quantity.
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Court area calculator
It runs inside the tennis guide and turns one court size into playing area, total surfaced area and perimeter.
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Unit converter
Feet, inches and meters in one field, rounded the way each governing body publishes the figure.
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Line paint estimator
Total line length for a marked court, converted into liters of paint at a chosen line width.
In development
The story behind the lines
Playing surfaces were never born standard.
Most dimensions in modern sport began as a local decision: the size of a hall, the length of a lawn, the height of a balcony rail. The numbers were argued into place afterwards, and the guides trace where each line came from.
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1875
Tennis gets its first written laws
The Marylebone Cricket Club published the first agreed rules for lawn tennis. The court was still wider at the baseline than at the net; the plain rectangle we measure today arrived with the first Wimbledon rules two years later.
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1891
Basketball is played before the court exists
The first game was played in a gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts, with two peach baskets fixed to the balcony rail. The original rules set no floor size, so the room decided it.
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1930s
The floor stops being local
A ten-second half-court line was added in 1932 and the three-second lane in 1936; in 1937 the center jump after every basket was dropped. Within a decade the plan of a basketball floor had settled into the shape still in use.
Find the field you need.
Start from a sport, or go straight to the guides. Every page names the rule book it follows and the date it was last checked.