FieldTurf is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and its primary manufacturing facility is located in Calhoun, Georgia, United States.

With a design intended to more accurately replicate real grass,[1] the new product rapidly gained popularity in the late 1990s.

In 1997, FieldTurf made its first major installation for a professional team, at the training facility for the English Premiership's Middlesbrough F.C.

[4] In 2005, French flooring manufacturer and minority shareholder Tarkett increased its share in FieldTurf, which led to the integration of the two companies.

In May 2010, FieldTurf acquired the American company EasyTurf of San Diego, California, as a way to gain entry into the rapidly growing residential and commercial synthetic grass markets in the United States.

This cushion is intended to improve safety when compared to earlier artificial surfaces and allows players to plant and pivot as if they were playing on a grass field.

[10] In 2010, another FieldTurf-funded but peer-reviewed study was published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, this time on NCAA Division I-A football, concluding that in many cases, games played on FieldTurf-branded products led to fewer injuries than those played on natural grass.

[12] In 2012, the Injury and Safety Panel published an independently funded analysis of actual game data over the 2000–2009 seasons.

Originally planned to have a natural grass field, the Seahawks instead decided to install FieldTurf after they had played the two previous seasons in Husky Stadium on that surface, and to ease conversion and footing concerns for a future Major League Soccer team in the venue, which has been shared with Seattle Sounders FC since 2009 (natural grass is brought in and installed over the FieldTurf for FIFA-sanctioned events).

[21][22][23] Thierry Henry opted out of road matches in Seattle when he played for the New York Red Bulls specifically because of the Sounders' use of FieldTurf in that venue.