Marshfield Town Meeting is being asked to approve nearly $1 million this month for new playing fields, a dearth of which has forced Marshfield Youth Soccer to rent space from Duxbury to accommodate its growing numbers.

Existing fields at Marshfield High School, deemed a disgrace by the president of the youth soccer club, will be rebuilt as the town reconstructs its high school campus over the next few years. But supporters say the town needs additional fields to accommodate some 1,200 soccer players and a growing lacrosse program.

If Town Meeting approves the $985,000 appropriation, money from the Community Preservation Fund would be used to build multipurpose fields for soccer and lacrosse, plus baseball and softball diamonds. The fields would be built on town-owned land off Rockwood Road, near the new Boys and Girls Club.

Marshfield Youth Soccer president Kevin Cantwell has said that other towns laugh at Marshfield’s existing facilities.

In an interview Friday, Duxbury Youth Soccer Association president Greg Chandler agreed that conditions are bad in Marshfield. The grass is sparse, the fields seem a little undersized, and they are not entirely flat, he said. Excess use makes grass difficult to maintain.

According to Chandler, one field has a drain near the edge that referees cover with carpet to protect people from getting hurt. “There are a number of issues that they have now,’’ he said.

The proposal to use community preservation money for new fields has garnered broad support, even from a candidate for local office who says he wants to repeal the Community Preservation Act. Under the act, communities add a surcharge to property taxes and use the money to preserve open space and fund other projects that meet criteria of the law.