{"id":575,"date":"2018-09-13T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.football-stadiums.co.uk\/the-dugout\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T17:14:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T17:14:32","slug":"the-dugout","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.football-stadiums.co.uk\/articles\/the-dugout\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dugout and Technical Area In Football"},"content":{"rendered":"
Is there a more random thing in football than the \u2018dugout\u2019? Nowadays it\u2019s referred to more commonly as the technical area, but that doesn\u2019t make it any weirder, when you think about it.<\/p>\n
There is no way that the side of the pitch is the best place to be when trying to make out what\u2019s happening on a football pitch. It\u2019s why television companies don\u2019t use the steady-cam view for the entire broadcast of a match, for example, and it\u2019s why the most expensive tickets are ones that offer a full view of the pitch from higher up rather than the ones just in front of the hoardings. Yet if a manager dares to sit up in the stands then they\u2019re lambasted for not being on the sideline and in touch with their players.<\/p>\n
Where, then, did the idea for a dugout come from? Why was it developed in the first place and how has it become the area that it is today? There are certain aspects to football matches that we take for granted. Why are the pitches outlined<\/a> the way that they are, for example? What\u2019s the point in corner flags<\/a>? Where did the idea of showing yellow and red cards<\/a> come from? These are all questions that we\u2019ve answered elsewhere on this site, so it seemed natural to take on the question of dugouts as the next thing on our list.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll do our best to explain the logic behind one of the strangest aspects of a football match, though we can\u2019t promise to explain why managers continue to use them even in the day and age of developing technology that would allow them to communicate with their coaching staff easily enough from a more elevated position\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\nWho Invented The Dugout and Why Did It Catch On?<\/h2>\n