Names, numbers and full-colour design
Custom Printed Jerseys — names, numbers and full-panel colour
A printed jersey is where a garment stops being stock and starts being yours. Everything on this page carries something specific to the program: a player name, a number the league will accept, a crest drawn from your own artwork, or a design that runs across the whole panel rather than sitting in a rectangle on the chest.
The design is the easy half. The half that decides whether the jersey survives the season is the method — whether the colour is inside the fibre or sitting on top of it — and that is a decision worth making before anybody draws anything.
Custom Printed Jerseys in other colourways
The same construction, made up in different colours. Yours is produced to your own design.
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Product photographs from the ZEE Sports Wear range. Every order is made to the program's own colours and design.
Colour in the fibre, not on it
Sublimation turns dye to gas under heat and bonds it into the polyester itself. Nothing sits on the surface afterwards, which is why a sublimated design cannot crack, peel or lift at a corner — there is no layer to lift. What eventually ages is the fabric around it.
That single property is why an extra colour costs nothing. A twelve-colour design and a two-colour design are the same print pass, so gradients, photographic panels and colour that runs into the seam are all available at the price of a plain shirt. No other method on this site can say that.
The limit is the fabric. Sublimation bonds to polyester and does not bond to cotton, so a cotton-rich garment rules the method out before a design exists. That constraint, and the five others that decide method, are set out in how sublimation puts colour into fibre.
What we need to print, and why
Six things that decide whether a printed order runs clean or comes back for a second approval.
- Vector artwork
- An AI, EPS or SVG file scales to any size without softening. From a low-resolution image we redraw the mark and send the redraw for approval — which is fine, and adds a cycle.
- A colour reference
- A Pantone number or a physical garment. A hex value fixes the hue and not the depth on a textured knit, which is the part people argue about later.
- The roster as text
- Names typed, not photographed. A misread name is a remade garment, and handwriting is the single most common source of one.
- Your league’s number rules
- Size and placement are enforced, and a rejected uniform is a forfeited game. Tell us the association and we will lay the numbers out to it.
- Which garment
- The same design sits differently on a long basketball jersey and a volleyball shirt. Panel shapes are per garment, not per design.
- Sponsor files, if any
- Vector plus the brand guide, asked for at the point the sponsorship is agreed. A logo squeezed to fit a panel is a distorted logo.
Printed, or stitched?
Both are on this site. This is the honest comparison, not the one that sells the dearer option.
| Sublimated print | Tackle twill or embroidery | |
|---|---|---|
| Extra colours | Free. Twelve colours cost what two cost. | Each colour is a separate operation on every garment. |
| How it fails | It does not fail as decoration — the colour is in the fibre. | An edge lifts, a corner peels, a thread catches. |
| What it looks like | Flat, unlimited in colour, gradient capable. | Raised, physical, with a shadow print cannot imitate. |
| Best on | Playing kit, large squads, anything worn hard. | Jackets and a small amount of lettering, looked at closely. |
| Fabric needed | Polyester. Cotton rules it out. | Almost anything. |
Names and numbers are a data problem before they are a print problem
Most of the mistakes on a personalised order happen before anything reaches a printer. A roster arrives as a photograph of a whiteboard, or as a spreadsheet where two players share a number, or with four names still marked TBC — and production cannot start against any of those.
So the useful discipline is unglamorous: one typed list, one column for name, one for number, one for size, and a person named as the one who approves it. Programs that do this get their kit earlier than programs that pay for urgency.
It also makes a mid-season addition trivial rather than expensive. With the list and the specification on file, four more jerseys in February match the ones from September; reordered from a description, they approximate them.
Baseball
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Basketball
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Football
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Custom Name Football Jerseys
Names laid out from a typed roster rather than a photograph of a handwritten one, because a misread name is a remade garment.
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Custom Number Football Jerseys
Numbering to the size and placement your league specifies. A rejected uniform is a forfeited game, so we flag a design the rules will not accept.
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Sublimated Football Jerseys
Colour bonded into the fibre, so nothing sits on the surface to lift when the jersey is grabbed. Unlimited colours at no extra cost.
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What changes for soccer →
Custom Name Soccer Jerseys
50+ font styles, premium printing quality. Ships nationwide.
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Custom Number Soccer Jerseys
High-visibility number printing, bold fonts. Team bulk orders welcome. Get a free quote!
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Custom Soccer Jerseys With Your Team Logo
Order custom soccer jerseys with your team logo, colors, names and numbers. Get free design support and shipping on every order.
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Custom Sublimated Soccer Jerseys
Colour in the fibre rather than on it, which is why a soccer shirt washed twice a week for a season does not fade at the badge.
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Personalized Soccer Jerseys
Names and numbers laid out from your roster, on the back and — where the competition requires it — on the shorts.
Ask about this →Volleyball
What changes for volleyball →
Custom Name Volleyball Jerseys
Player names sublimated rather than pressed, on a garment that goes to the floor often enough to lift anything sitting on the surface.
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Custom Number Volleyball Jerseys
Numbering to the size and placement the governing body specifies, front and back, so a uniform is never turned away at the scorer’s table.
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Personalized Volleyball Jerseys
Fully personalized volleyball jerseys with names, numbers, and logos.
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Sublimated Volleyball Jerseys
All-over sublimation printed volleyball jerseys with vibrant, permanent colors.
Ask about this →Questions we get asked
Does a more complicated design cost more?
Not in sublimation. Colour is printed rather than assembled, so a twelve-colour design and a two-colour design are the same print pass. In stitching and twill it does cost more, because each colour is a separate operation repeated on every garment.
What artwork file do you need?
Vector — AI, EPS or SVG — which scales to any size without softening. From a low-resolution image we redraw the mark and send the redraw for approval; that works, and it adds a cycle to the timeline.
Can you match our exact school colour?
Against a Pantone number or a physical garment, yes. Against a screenshot we can get close, and close is the honest word — the image has already passed through a camera and a screen before it reaches us.
Will the print crack or peel?
Sublimated colour cannot, because it is inside the fibre rather than on top of it. There is no layer to lift. Anything pressed onto the surface — vinyl in particular — will eventually lift at a corner.
How do you handle player names and numbers?
From a typed list, one row per player, with size beside the name. A photograph of a handwritten roster is where misread names come from, and a misread name is a remade garment.
Will our numbers meet league rules?
We produce to the size and placement your association specifies, and we flag a design that puts a number somewhere the rules will not accept. A rejected uniform is a forfeited game, which is more expensive than a redesign.
Can we add players after the order?
Yes. The specification stays on file — fabric batch, pattern, print calibration — so four more in February match the September set. Reordered from a description months later, they would not reliably match.
Can a sponsor logo go on the jersey?
Yes, printed, which holds a corporate colour exactly and does not lift at the corner. Ask the sponsor for vector artwork and their brand guide when the sponsorship is agreed rather than when the kit is being designed.
Can we mix printing and stitching on one garment?
Yes, and it is common — a sublimated design with a twill name or number over it. It costs more than print alone and less than a fully stitched garment, which is often exactly the right place to land.
What is the minimum order?
It is set per garment rather than site-wide, because a reversible and a single-face jersey are not comparable pieces of work. Send the roster and the garment and we will give you the number that actually applies.
Send us the roster, get a real quote
Sizes, colours and roughly when you need it is enough to work from. You get a written quote and a mockup in your colours before anything is committed, and the design brief on our step-by-step kit design tool covers the same ground if you would rather build it yourself first.
Prefer to talk? +1 213-449-3746, Monday – Saturday, 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM (PST).
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Six short steps, no pricing and no account. The preview shows how your colours sit together; the real mockup comes back from our team on the actual garment, free, usually the same working day.
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