Joggers for Sports Clubs: reordering
By The Velocity Wear Team
A club can run the same jogger design again at any time, subject to the same 50-piece minimum and the same 10 to 15 working day production window from artwork approval. What determines whether that repeat is simple or painful is the file the club kept: specification, artwork, logo placement and the allocation that actually happened last season.
Committees change, and the person who placed the first order is often not the person placing the second. That is the real argument for writing everything down. The sports clubs page covers the wider ordering cycle, and the wholesale joggers page holds the garment options you will be repeating.
What does the club need to keep on file?
- 1The approved artwork files, including the sponsor mark exactly as it was signed off.
- 2Fabric and hem: brushed fleece or loopback, cuffed or open.
- 3The colourway reference, written down rather than remembered as a colour name.
- 4Decoration method and position for each mark on the garment.
- 5Last season's size split, and separately, which sizes ran short.
Will the colour match last season's pairs?
Closely, but fabric is dyed in batches and batches can sit a fraction apart. That is normal and it is not a fault. It becomes visible when a new pair stands next to one that has been through a season of washing, which is a comparison every club ends up making on a touchline. Clubs that care about an exact match across a squad order the whole quantity in one run rather than topping up later.
Mid-season top-up or wait for the next cycle?
It depends on whether you can cover the sizes you have lost. A mid-season top-up is a full order of 50 with its own production window, so it only makes sense when the club has real demand, usually from new members joining mid-year. If the gap is two or three pairs, the buffer you held back should be covering it, which is the argument set out in when to reorder and how much buffer to hold.
Does a kit change reset everything?
A new colourway or a new sponsor is a new design, so yes: new artwork approval, new 50, and a sample worth taking if the change is significant. What carries across is everything you learned. The size curve, the hem preference and the decoration method are all still valid, which is why a club on its third order places it in a fraction of the time the first one took. The general rules for repeating a design are in can I reorder the same design later, and the calendar side is in joggers for sports clubs: lead time.
Order the repeat before the season starts rather than during it. Production does not speed up for a fixture list, and a club that places its restock in the quiet months never has the conversation about whether kit will arrive in time.
Keep one pair from each run aside, unworn, as a reference. When the next order comes round, that pair answers questions a written record cannot: how the colour actually looked, how large the crest sat on the leg, how the hem fell. It costs one pair out of 50 and it is worth more than any amount of documentation, particularly once the committee has changed and nobody placing the new order saw the old one approved. Label it with the date and the specification, store it somewhere dry, and hand it on with the rest of the club's records.
