Football lawn - how to prevent damage

[MosEisley]

DS1 is a footie fiend. He and DS2 / DH / friends, and on occasion, me, will be out all summer playing on our lawn and it is ALREADY beginning to look a bit worn! It isn't even April yet!

So do you have any tips for keeping the lawn in as good a condition as possible? What do groundskeepers do?

please gardeners!

Keep moving the area they can play in around, so you let the grass recover -you should avoid the muddy patch around the goals.

hey, thanks for the reply! I do this, but it isn't enough because the garden isn't big enough for the lawn to recover before the goal is back on that patch. He is out there every day already.

We use "feed and weed" lawn stuff regularly but you may need astroturf

Thanks will try that. Not sure I can bring myself to astroturf yet although it may come to that if DS2 and DS3 turn out to love footie too!