Custom Clothing Printing in Wigan and Greater Manchester
By The Velocity Wear Team
For custom clothing printing in Wigan, demand splits between community sport kit and embroidered distribution workwear. Velocity Wear produces both from a 20-piece minimum with mixed sizes, delivered across Wigan, Leigh and Greater Manchester on a tracked service.
A Sporting Town
Wigan's rugby league and football culture runs from the professional game down through a dense network of amateur and junior clubs, and those clubs order on a predictable seasonal cycle. The recurring mistake is treating a club's requirement as one order when it is really four, each with different economics — match kit, training kit, coaching wear and supporter leisurewear.
Splitting the Club Order
Getting this right is where most of the available saving sits.
- Match kit — sublimated polyester where numbering and edge-to-edge design are required, sitting at the longer end of production at around 15–20 working days from approval.
- Training tops — ordered in greater quantity than match kit, because they are worn far more often.
- Coaching and touchline wear — embroidered softshells and fleeces, specified for standing in weather rather than playing in it.
- Supporter and leisure kit — screen printed at volume, and frequently the part of the range that funds the rest.
Order It Together
Bulk discounts reach up to around 40% as quantities rise, and a club placing those four categories as separate runs lands far lower on the discount curve than the same total placed once. For clubs running junior and senior sides, coordinating across the whole club rather than per team produces a better per-piece cost and keeps kit visually consistent between age groups — which separate ordering almost never achieves.
Distribution Workwear
Wigan's warehousing and distribution operations need the opposite specification: durability over appearance. Embroidered polos and fleeces in poly-cotton blends that survive daily wear and hot washing, ordered ahead across a broad size spread so new starters are kitted from stock rather than triggering small runs that each pay their own setup.
“"Four separate club orders buy the same kit as one order, for more money and with less chance of it matching."”
Minimums, Timing and Artwork
Orders start at 20 pieces with sizes mixed freely inside the run, which suits fitting juniors and adults together. Production begins at artwork approval — screen printing and embroidery around 10–15 working days, sublimation nearer 15–20 — plus 2–5 working days tracked delivery. Sponsor artwork is the usual delay on club orders, so collect it first. Preview the full layout in the free Design Studio and model quantities in the free instant price calculator before approving.