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Custom basketball jerseys, cycling jerseys and printed football shirts are made the same way at heart: a jersey cut to your brief, a design in your colours, and your crest, sponsors, names and numbers. Velocity Wear makes custom sports clothing for clubs, leagues, schools and sportswear brands from 50 pieces per design, sublimated or printed, with production taking 10 to 15 working days after you approve the proof.
This guide covers how each kind of kit is designed, which decoration suits it, how names and numbers are handled, and how an order runs from the first sketch to the kit bag.
Custom sports apparel: sublimated or printed?
Sublimation dyes the whole design into polyester. Stripes, sashes, panels, patterns and sponsors run to the seams with nothing on the surface to crack or peel, and a busy design weighs no more than a plain one. It does not work on cotton, because the dye bonds only with polyester fibres. Printing suits a plain jersey in a stock colour: names and numbers heat applied, screen printed or DTF printed, a sponsor on the chest, a crest embroidered or printed. Many kits use both.
Fabrics run from cotton to polyester, 180 to 450+ GSM, chosen for each garment to your brief, and a sublimated jersey is always polyester. Our sublimation printing page explains where the method works and where it does not.
| Kit | What it usually carries | Suited decoration |
|---|---|---|
| Basketball jersey | Team name or crest, large numbers front and back, a name above the back number | Sublimated body; names and numbers sublimated or heat applied |
| Cycling jersey | An all-over design with sponsors on the chest, back and sleeves | Sublimation, edge to edge |
| Football shirt | Crest, sponsor, names and numbers, often stripes or a sash | Sublimated body, applied names and numbers, embroidered or sublimated crest |
Custom basketball jerseys
A basketball jersey carries a lot on a small surface: the team name or crest on the front, a large number front and back, and usually a name above the back number. Basketball jersey design tends to start from the team colours and an idea for trims or side panels, and sublimation lets those panels, stripes and patterns run edge to edge.
You do not need a basketball jersey designer of your own. Send your crest, your colours and a reference or sketch, and our designers prepare a digital mockup of the front and back with every name and number in place. Matching shorts in the same colours are made as their own design.
Custom cycling jerseys and cycling clothing
A custom cycling jersey is the clearest case for sublimation. A cycling jersey design is usually a full-colour pattern with sponsors on the chest, the back and the sleeves, and sublimation puts all of it into the polyester with nothing on the surface. To design a cycling jersey with us, send your artwork, or a reference and your colours, together with the features you need, and the quote confirms the cut and fabric to your brief before the mockup is drawn up.
Bespoke cycling jerseys for a club, a charity ride or a brand follow the same 50-piece minimum per design, with sizes mixed. A personalised cycling jersey for UK riders can carry each rider's name inside one design. For custom cycling clothing beyond the jersey, tell us the garments and each is quoted as its own design.
Printed football shirts and custom soccer uniforms
Football shirts, called soccer jerseys in the USA, are where most team kit starts. The styles we have made include V-neck jerseys with a printed name and number, a jersey with a centre stripe and one with a diagonal sash and club crest, each a starting point that is changed to your club. Custom soccer uniforms for leagues and schools can add matching shorts, trousers and team hoodies in the same colours.
A home kit and an away kit are two designs, each with its own 50-piece minimum, and a goalkeeper shirt in another colour is a design too. See custom sports jerseys for the styles, and our guide to sublimation for sportswear jerseys for how the print is made.
Names, numbers and the squad list
Personalisation is added per jersey inside one design, so a squad in mixed sizes with a different name and number on every shirt is still one 50-piece run. Send the squad list as a simple table of size, name and number, and it is checked against the proof before production. The list stays on file, so a replacement shirt for a new player mid-season matches the rest of the squad.
How a team kit order works
- 1Send your crest, sponsor logos, colours (Pantone references help), the jersey style and the squad list.
- 2An itemised quote comes back within 1 hour on a working day, and our designers prepare a digital mockup of the front, back and sleeves.
- 3Approve the mockup and pay the 50% deposit. Production then takes 10 to 15 working days.
- 4The balance is due when the kit is ready to ship, and it ships by tracked freight.
Sports kits are priced on request, because the fabric, the style and the number of crests, sponsors, names and numbers change the cost; the quote itemises every line. For a new design, a sample of one or two jerseys costs £150 including shipping and is credited against the bulk order. Shipping is charged on the weight and dimensions of the shipment, and import duties at destination are the recipient's. For training tops, team hoodies and tracksuits to go with the jerseys, see custom sportswear.
