Football, basketball, cricket, padel, athletics, swim, gym ranges and tracksuits, printed and stitched in our own factory. We supply Law 4 compliant head covers and colour-matched base layers inside the kit order, because a player who sources her own will not match the shirt, and that is an equipment check waiting to happen.
Every sport sets a different brief on fabric, print and cut. What stays constant is that the kit has to pass an equipment check and still look right in the team photograph at the end of the season.
Home, away and keeper kits with numbers, names and sponsors printed in the same pass as the design. Head covers and base layers supplied in the kit colours, because Law 4 requires them to match.
Mesh jersey and short sets, reversible options and warm-up shooters. Open knit is chosen here for airflow, accepting slightly softer print edges as the trade-off.
Coloured kits and classic whites, with caps, trousers and sweaters. Whites are the one place we usually recommend embroidery over print, because a sublimated white on white does nothing.
Tees, tanks, leggings and shorts for gyms, trainers and studios. Four-way stretch with real recovery, which is what keeps leggings opaque under load rather than sheer.
Singlets, vests and shorts for meets, marathons and school sports days. Outdoor daytime events are where a tested UV figure on the cloth is worth asking for rather than assuming.
Zip jackets, training tops and joggers in team colours, usually with an embroidered crest rather than print because tricot and fleece take embroidery better.
Polos, skorts and shorts for padel clubs and tennis academies. Quick-dry, and cut with modest-length options because the club membership here is genuinely mixed.
Team swimwear, rash guards and pool-deck kit. Built on chlorine-resistant construction rather than ordinary swim fabric, because chlorine attacks elastane and nothing else does it faster.
Fun-run tees, corporate league jerseys and tournament merchandise. Bulk-ready and usually the fastest turnaround on the list, because the design brief is simpler.
Head covers have been permitted in football since 2014, after a two-year trial. They are not unrestricted, and the restrictions are purchasing decisions rather than player decisions. This is the single most useful thing a football kit manufacturer can tell a club with mixed or modest-dress players, and no one in this market says a word about it.
A head cover must be black or the same main colour as the shirt, and every player on the team must wear the same colour. Two players buying their own is already two different shades, and the team is non-compliant before kick-off.
It has to be a separate garment. That rules out the sewn-in hood-style solutions that occasionally get suggested as a shortcut, and it is why we build it as a pull-on piece in the same dye reference.
It must not be dangerous to the wearer or to any other player, and an opening or closing mechanism around the neck is named specifically. No protruding parts either, so no clips, toggles or hard trims anywhere on it.
Undershorts and tights must match the main colour of the shorts, or the lowest part of them, and the whole team must match. Long sleeves under the shirt must match the shirt sleeve colour.
Here is the practical consequence, and it is the reason this section exists. A player in black leggings under navy shorts is not making a style choice, she is failing an equipment check, and the person who has to deal with it is your coach in front of a referee. The fix is not to tell the player to change. It is to supply the head cover and the base layer inside the kit order, in the kit colours, so the squad matches by default. We put both on the order sheet as line items rather than as an afterthought, and it costs the club almost nothing.
Sublimation is a chemistry rather than a setting on a machine. The dye turns to gas and bonds into polyester fibres, which is why it cannot crack, peel or stiffen, and why a six-colour gradient costs exactly what a plain block costs. That same chemistry sets two hard limits, and quotes in this market almost never state them.
The dye bonds into polyester. A cotton team tee cannot be sublimated. If a quote offers a sublimated cotton garment, it is vinyl or heat transfer under a nicer name, and it will feel raised, trap heat and lift at the edges after a season of washing.
Sublimation dye is translucent, so it cannot lay a light colour over a dark one. A dark kit is made by printing the dark colour onto a white polyester base, not by printing onto a dark garment. This is why sublimated ranges are always built from white blanks.
No per-colour cost, no weight added, no hand feel on the print, and nothing to crack. Gradients, patterns and photographic artwork price the same as a plain block, which is why a club with an ambitious design should be sublimating rather than screen printing.
Two questions make competing quotes comparable in about ten seconds. Which print process, and on which fibre. If the answers are sublimation and polyester, you are comparing like with like. If one supplier says sublimation and the garment is cotton, you are comparing a bonded print against a surface film, and the price difference is explaining itself.
The first four are on every quote in this market. The last two are the ones that decide whether the squad passes an equipment check, and they are almost never on the sheet until somebody asks.
Each kit type gets the cloth that suits how it is actually used, not the one that quotes best, which is the difference between a sports uniform manufacturer and a print shop with a catalogue. Two of these are where paying less shows up immediately, and we say which.
The default jersey cloth. Wicks, dries fast and holds sublimated detail cleanly, which is why it suits football, cricket and athletics where the crest and numbers need to read sharply.
Open knit for airflow on indoor and high-sweat sports. The trade-off is slightly softer print edges across the open structure, which is worth knowing before you approve a fine-detail design.
The one where cheap shows instantly. Real recovery is what keeps leggings and fitted shorts opaque under load rather than sheer. If a gym range is the plan, this is where the budget belongs.
Supportive under-kit layer. Made to the kit colours as standard here, because Law 4 requires the visible parts to match the shirt sleeve or the shorts rather than the player preference.
Tracksuits, warm-ups and travel kit. These take embroidery better than print, so a crest on a tracksuit is usually embroidered even when the matchday shirt is fully sublimated.
Ordinary swim fabric relies on elastane and chlorine attacks elastane, which is why a normal costume goes slack and loses colour within weeks. This construction does not lean on elastane the same way, so it holds shape. It feels firmer, and that is the feature.
Most kit in this market is one block graded down and relabelled. The result is a shoulder drafted for someone else, a sleeve that catches on the arm swing and a shirt length that rides up every time the player raises her arms, which in most sports is constantly.
Drafted separately through shoulder, bust and waist with a sleeve head set for a different arm pitch, and a body length that stays put through an overhead reach. Every modest option comes from the same dye reference as the kit, so the squad matches by default rather than by luck.
Graded through chest and shoulder with a deeper armhole for reach. Junior sizes are a separate graded run rather than adult sizing scaled down, because junior proportions are genuinely different and not simply smaller.
Guessing sizes from height and weight is the single most common reason a kit order arrives wrong, and it is entirely avoidable. Getting thirty players in one room usually is not possible, so we do not ask you to.
One sample garment in each size goes round the squad for a week. Every player tries them and notes what fits, and the sheet comes back to us. Slower on the calendar, far more accurate than any chart.
Youth squads get their own graded run rather than adult sizing scaled down. Junior proportions differ in torso length and shoulder width, not just in overall size, and a scaled adult shirt shows it immediately.
Every player size is stored against your account with the design. A signing in March is a five-piece order against a saved record rather than a fresh round of measuring and a new setup charge.
If a player ends up in the wrong size because our size set was wrong, we replace it. If it is wrong because the sheet came back guessed, we will tell you that plainly and quote the top-up.
Because the whole shirt is sublimated, numbers and names are part of the print rather than applied afterwards. Nothing is stuck on, so nothing lifts, and a complicated design costs the same as a simple one.
A sports uniform manufacturer should not treat a weekend side and an academy the same way, so minimum, cloth and lead time flex with the size of the group. A new club should not need a hundred-piece order to look like a club.
A sports uniform manufacturer can only move as fast as the approvals allow, and the stage clubs underestimate is not production, it is approval. A committee deciding colours and sponsor placement routinely takes longer than the factory does, so brief early and the rest is comfortable.
Sport, colours, crest, sponsors, roster, deadline, and whether the squad needs head covers or base layers.
A render of the kit in your colours within 24 to 48 hours, with fixed pricing attached to it.
Sample garments in each size go round the squad for a week and the sheet comes back to us.
Full-dye sublimation, with design, numbers and names bonded into the fabric in a single pass.
Assembled and inspected piece by piece against the approved mockup and the team sheet.
Roster-sorted delivery, then five-piece top-ups from the saved design for new signings.
Published so a club treasurer can budget before making a call, which almost no sports uniform supplier in this market will do. Working ranges for typical specifications. Sport, fabric and quantity move the final number.
Sublimated jersey and short set. Numbers, names and the digital mockup are included on a team order.
Reversible basketball set. The reversible construction is what carries the extra over a single-sided jersey.
Gym tee or tank. Leggings and fitted shorts sit above this, because the recovery stretch is the cost.
Full tracksuit, jacket and joggers, with an embroidered crest rather than print on tricot or fleece.
Head cover or base layer in the kit colours. Cheap, and the line item that keeps the squad compliant.
Digital mockup, numbers and names on team orders, and artwork storage so top-ups match the first batch.
Our factory sits on Hafiz Ibrahim Street, Al Nuaimia 1, which puts the northern corridor inside a day. Kit arrives roster-sorted and bagged per player, so a manager is not matching numbers to names on the touchline an hour before kick-off.
Get a QuoteTwo of our players had been turned away at an equipment check for the wrong colour leggings and nobody could tell us why. They explained the rule in one message and put the base layers on the order sheet. It has not happened since.
We had three quotes and they all said sublimation. Only one of them asked what fabric we wanted it on. That question was the entire difference between the quotes and we would not have known to ask it.
The size set idea saved us. We had been guessing from height for two seasons and always had six players in the wrong shirt. One week of passing samples around fixed it completely.
Custom kit is one of the few purchases where the rules of the sport are part of the specification, and almost nobody quoting in this market reads them. Two things decide whether a kit order goes smoothly: whether the print process actually matches the garment you are ordering, and whether the kit passes an equipment check on matchday.
Since 2014, after a two-year trial, head covers are permitted in football. They are not unrestricted. Under Law 4, a head cover must be black or the same main colour as the shirt, with every player on the same team wearing the same colour. It has to be in keeping with the professional appearance of the kit, it must not be attached to the shirt, it must not be dangerous to the wearer or to anyone else, which specifically rules out an opening or closing mechanism around the neck, and it must have no parts protruding from the surface.
Read that again from a purchasing point of view. A head cover bought separately by the player will almost never be the same main colour as the shirt, and if two players buy their own, the team is already non-compliant. This is why we make head covers from the same dye reference as the jersey, in a pull-on construction with no neck fastening, and supply them inside the kit order rather than leaving players to solve it themselves.
The same law covers what goes underneath. Undershorts and tights must be the same colour as the main colour of the shorts, or of the lowest part of the shorts, and every player on the team must wear the same colour. A long-sleeve undershirt has to match the sleeve colour of the shirt. In practice this is the thing that catches modest-dress players and cold-weather layers alike, because a player in black leggings under navy shorts is not making a style choice, she is failing an equipment check.
The answer is not to tell the player to change. It is to supply the base layer as part of the kit, in the kit colours, so the whole squad matches by default. We build it into the order sheet as a line item rather than as an afterthought, which costs the club almost nothing and removes an argument that otherwise happens in front of a referee.
Sublimation is a chemistry, not a setting on a machine. The dye turns to gas and bonds into polyester fibres, which is why it cannot crack, peel or stiffen, and why a six-colour gradient costs the same as a plain block. But that same chemistry sets two hard limits that quotes rarely state. It bonds to polyester and not to cotton, so a cotton team tee cannot be sublimated. And the dye is translucent, so it cannot print light onto dark. A dark kit is achieved by printing the dark colour onto a white base, not by printing onto a dark garment.
This matters when you are comparing quotes. If one supplier quotes a sublimated cotton tee, they are quoting vinyl or transfer and calling it sublimation. That garment will feel slightly raised, will trap heat, and will start lifting at the edges after a season of washing. Ask which process, on which fibre, and the quotes stop looking equivalent. Any football kit manufacturer worth using will answer that in one sentence.
Dri-fit polyester interlock is the default jersey cloth. It wicks, it dries quickly and it holds sublimated detail cleanly, which makes it right for football, cricket and athletics. Performance mesh has a more open knit and belongs on basketball and indoor training where airflow beats print sharpness. Four-way stretch with genuine recovery is what makes leggings and fitted shorts opaque under load rather than sheer, and it is the one fabric where paying less shows immediately. Tricot and brushed fleece handle tracksuits and travel kit.
Swim is the exception that catches people out. Ordinary swim fabric contains elastane for stretch, and chlorine attacks elastane, which is why a normal costume goes baggy and loses colour in a pool within weeks. Chlorine-resistant team swimwear is built around a fibre construction that does not rely on elastane in the same way, so it holds shape far longer. It feels firmer in the hand, and that firmness is the feature rather than a defect.
Getting thirty players in one room is usually impossible, so we work from a size set instead. One sample garment in each size goes round the squad for a week while every player notes what fits, and the sheet comes back to us. It takes longer on the calendar and it is far more accurate than deriving sizes from height and weight, which is the single most common reason a kit order arrives wrong. Youth squads get a junior graded run rather than adult sizing scaled down, because junior proportions are genuinely different rather than just smaller.
Because the design is sublimated, numbers and names are printed in the same pass as the rest of the shirt rather than applied afterwards. Send a team sheet and each shirt is laid out individually. Sponsor logos work the same way: front, back and sleeve placements sized so nothing fights the crest, and adding a fourth sponsor in January costs nothing beyond the reprint of the shirts that carry it. The artwork stays on file, so a signing in March receives a shirt identical to the ones printed in September rather than a near match.
Five questions. Which print process, on which fibre. Do you make head covers and base layers in the kit colours, or do you expect players to source their own. Is the artwork stored against our account for top-ups. What is the top-up minimum, because squads change all season. And what is the realistic lead time from approval rather than from enquiry. A sports uniform supplier that owns its print and stitching answers all five without checking with anyone.
Sublimated team kits start at 10 pieces per design. Stock-fabric printed kits start at 25. Once your design is saved, top-ups start at 5 pieces, which is what makes a mid-season signing straightforward rather than a new order. Digital mockups come back within 24 to 48 hours, standard production is 7 to 12 working days from design approval, and a tournament rush can be compressed to 4 to 6 days. The stage clubs underestimate is approval, because a committee deciding on colours and sponsor placement routinely takes longer than the factory does. Delivery is roster-sorted across all seven emirates plus Al Ain.
The questions coaches, club managers and gym owners ask before approving a design.
