The Santiago Bernabeu is one of world soccer's most famous stadiums. / Marca/IMAGO Unlike football fields, soccer fields vary in length throughout the countless leagues and levels in the world.

The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the governing body that writes the rules of soccer, states that a field must be rectangular and marked with continuous lines. A full-size pitch ...

“[Fans] should be prepared for a football field pretending to be a soccer field,” Sounders general manager and part owner Adrian Hanauer told reporters on Thursday. “It’s the unfortunate ...