Lacrosse Field Dimensions
Lacrosse is unusual: the men's and women's games are played on genuinely different fields, and since 2026 USA Lacrosse also publishes a unified field that carries both sets of lines. One measured sheet for each — men's, women's, unified and the small-sided youth field — read straight from the governing body's own diagrams.
Five sheets, four fields.
Men's in both orientations, then women's, unified and youth. Every sheet names its rule book and, where the rules give a range, says what size it is drawn at.
Men’s vs. women’s vs. unified
Same goal, same crease radius on two of the three, and almost nothing else in common.
| Measurement | Men’s | Women’s | Unified (2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field size | 110 × 60 yd | 110–140 × 60–70 yd | 120 × 53⅓–60 yd |
| Goal line from end line | 15 yd | 10–20 yd | 15 yd |
| Goal line to goal line | 80 yd | 90–100 yd | 90 yd |
| Restraining lines | 35 yd from each end (20 from goal line) | 30 yd from each goal line | 40 yd from each end (25 from goal line) |
| Crease / goal circle | 9 ft radius | 3 m (9 ft 11 in) radius | 9 ft radius |
| Arcs | — | 8 m arc + 12 m fan | 8 m arc + 12 m fan |
| Centre | X | 30-ft circle | 30-ft circle |
| Wing lines / box | 20-yd wings, 40-yd box | — | 20-yd wings, 40-yd box |
| Goal | 6 × 6 ft | 6 × 6 ft | 6 × 6 ft |
From USA Lacrosse’s 2026 men’s, women’s and unified field diagrams. The NFHS permits a 53⅓-yd men’s width on a shared football field.
Why the goals sit inside the field
The first thing that surprises people lining a lacrosse field is that the goal is not on the end line. It sits 15 yards in — 10 to 20 in the women’s game — leaving a strip of live field behind it, and the whole attack is built around that space: the men’s “X” attackman sets up behind the goal, and the women’s first home works the same ground. The restraining lines then carve each end into a zone where a set number of players from each side must stay.
That is also why the unified field is 120 yards rather than 110: the extra ten yards give both games the room behind the goal they expect while keeping one set of restraining lines, 40 yards from each end, that both rule books accept.
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Measurements from USA Lacrosse’s 2026 Men’s Field Diagram, Women’s Field Diagram, Lining the Field (Unified) and Small-Sided Unified Field Diagram. Updated through September 2026.
