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Cost the year

Put your own quantities and your own quoted rates against each maintenance job to get an annual total and a category breakdown. The planner ships with no market averages at all — a line without both figures is excluded and says so.

Scope: a planning aid for a club budgeting its own maintenance year. The suggested job lines mirror the work in the maintenance calendar; rename, clear or add lines freely. Rates come from your quotes and invoices — deliberately never from this site.

This planner needs JavaScript, which is off or unavailable in your browser. The same exercise works on paper: list the year’s jobs from the maintenance calendar, put your own quantity and rate against each, and total the lines that have both.

Cost lines

Quantity is how many times the job happens in a year; rate is your cost for one. Lines appear here once JavaScript is running.

Editable annual maintenance cost lines
Job	Category	Quantity / year	Your rate (£)

Assumptions and sources

Football Foundation — Seasonal pitch maintenance calendar (written with the Grounds Management Association) Checked · 27 August 2026

Source ID: FF-SEASONAL
URL: https://footballfoundation.org.uk/support-article/seasonal-pitch-maintenance-calendar-your-year-round-care-guide
Checked: 27 August 2026
Supports: Broad seasonal task timing for natural-grass pitches: mowing-height bands, feeding, repair, aeration and drainage planning, inspection and record-keeping reminders.
Limits: National guidance, not a site-specific specification. Weather, soil type, usage and professional advice can all override it. Figures quoted from it are the source page’s bands, not measurements of any particular ground.

Football Foundation — Seasonal pitch maintenance calendar (written with the Grounds Management Association)

Source ID: FF-SEASONAL
URL: https://footballfoundation.org.uk/support-article/seasonal-pitch-maintenance-calendar-your-year-round-care-guide
Checked: 27 August 2026
Supports: Broad seasonal task timing for natural-grass pitches: mowing-height bands, feeding, repair, aeration and drainage planning, inspection and record-keeping reminders.
Limits: National guidance, not a site-specific specification. Weather, soil type, usage and professional advice can all override it. Figures quoted from it are the source page’s bands, not measurements of any particular ground.

Football Foundation — Groundskeeping equipment: essential tools (written by the Grounds Management Association) Checked · 27 August 2026

Source ID: FF-EQUIPMENT
URL: https://footballfoundation.org.uk/support-article/groundskeeping-equipment-essential-tools-for-pitch-maintenance
Checked: 27 August 2026
Supports: Equipment families for grass-pitch maintenance, share/hire/buy decision points, and machine maintenance and operator-safety basics.
Limits: The source groups equipment into dated price tiers; those figures can go stale and are not repeated here as current market prices. No product endorsements are taken from it.

Football Foundation — Groundskeeping equipment: essential tools (written by the Grounds Management Association)

Source ID: FF-EQUIPMENT
URL: https://footballfoundation.org.uk/support-article/groundskeeping-equipment-essential-tools-for-pitch-maintenance
Checked: 27 August 2026
Supports: Equipment families for grass-pitch maintenance, share/hire/buy decision points, and machine maintenance and operator-safety basics.
Limits: The source groups equipment into dated price tiers; those figures can go stale and are not repeated here as current market prices. No product endorsements are taken from it.

How it decides

Line total = your quantity × your rate, to the penny. Category totals add the costed lines in each group. A line missing either figure is excluded from the total and listed with the reason, so the headline number is never quietly smaller than your real costs. Negative or non-numeric entries stop the calculation rather than being silently fixed.

Independent historical archive and grassroots grounds resource. Not affiliated with Kent FA, The FA or the Southern Counties East Football League. Printed from https://www.kentleague.com/tools/maintenance-cost-planner/