Full roster packages
Team Uniform Packages — a whole program in one order
A package is what most programs actually need and almost nobody asks for by name. It is the game kit, the practice gear a squad wears the other five days, and the outerwear they travel in — ordered once, made together, delivered as one shipment with names on the bags.
The argument for it is not a discount. It is that everything a coach otherwise has to chase across three months and three invoices happens in a single conversation.
What a school running three sports actually spends its time on
It is rarely the design. It is the follow-up: confirming a size list twice, checking whether the practice tops match the game kit, discovering in week two that the warm-ups were quoted by a different supplier at a different fabric weight. Consolidating the order removes that work rather than reducing its price.
It also removes the most common quality complaint we hear about other suppliers, which is not a bad garment but an inconsistent one. When the practice jerseys, the game jerseys and the shooting shirts come out of the same building in the same fortnight, they share a colour and a size grade by construction.
For programs covering more than one sport, the saving compounds. A single approval covering basketball and volleyball is one meeting; the alternative is the same meeting twice with the same people about the same colours.
What a package usually contains
Nothing here is mandatory — a package is whatever the program actually needs. This is the shape most of them take.
Game kit
The jersey and its matched bottom, home and away where the league requires both.
Practice gear
The pieces worn daily, in a lighter specification than game kit because they are washed three times as often — covered in detail on our page for practice and training gear across five sports.
Travel and warm-up
Hoodies, jackets or full warm-up suits in the program’s colours rather than a stock colour that nearly matches.
Numbered accessories
Socks, bags and the small pieces that are always ordered last and always arrive after the season starts.
What a package actually saves, honestly counted
The saving people expect is a discount. The saving that shows up is the follow-up: confirming a size list twice, checking whether the practice tops match the game kit, discovering in week two that the warm-ups were quoted by somebody else at a different fabric weight. Consolidating removes that work rather than reducing its price.
It also removes the commonest quality complaint we hear about other suppliers, which is not a bad garment but an inconsistent one. When the practice jerseys, the game jerseys and the shooting shirts leave the same building in the same fortnight, they share a colour and a size grade by construction rather than by luck.
For a school running three programs the effect compounds. One approval covering basketball and volleyball is one meeting; the alternative is that meeting twice, with the same people, about the same colours — and the second one always happens in the busiest month of the year.
Where it genuinely does not apply is a program whose sports have nothing to do with each other visually. If nothing has to sit next to anything else, order what you need when you need it; the case for a package is consistency, and consistency you do not need is not worth paying for. For those, the range grouped by what the garment actually is is the faster way in.
How a program-wide order runs
Five points where somebody decides something, and nothing between them that needs chasing.
- 01
The list before the design
What each squad needs, how many of each, and who is paying for what. It reads like admin and it is the step that determines whether the rest is one conversation or six.
- 02
Sizes next
Rosters and measurements before artwork, because a wide size spread changes what we recommend — some cuts grade across a range better than others, and finding that out after approval means approving twice.
- 03
One mockup, everything on it
Game kit, practice gear and travel pieces shown together. What gets approved is the relationship between them, which is the thing that actually goes wrong when they are approved separately.
- 04
A single production run
Cut and dyed together. This is the step that cannot be recovered afterwards, and it is why the approval before it is the one that matters.
- 05
Packed by squad, then by player
Labelled per player where a roster is supplied, so nobody is sorting a pallet in a car park in August.
Budgets, committees and the quote that has to be defended
School and club purchasing rarely fails on price. It fails on a quote that cannot be put in front of somebody — a single figure with no line items, or a set of separate quotes that do not add up because each supplier counted the practice gear differently.
So the useful thing to send us is the list you have to justify, not a description of what you want. A roster, the squads involved, and the line items your committee expects to see, and you get back something in that shape rather than something you have to retype.
Where a purchasing calendar splits across two budget years, the production still happens once and the invoice splits — that is the arrangement that keeps a set matching. Splitting the production instead is what reintroduces the colour drift the package exists to prevent, which is explained in full on our page about sets produced in a single run.
And a small thing that saves a large argument: agree who owns the artwork before the first order. If your program paid for a crest to be redrawn, that file should come back to you, and a supplier who will not say so in writing is telling you something.
What usually goes into one
Nothing here is compulsory. A package is whatever the program actually needs — this is the shape most of them take.
Game kit
The jersey and its matched bottom, home and away where the league requires both. The pieces that must come from one dye run.
Practice gear
Worn four or five times a week and specified more lightly for exactly that reason, in the quantities a squad actually gets through.
Travel and warm-up
Hoodies, jackets or full suits in the program’s own colours rather than the closest stock shade — the pieces seen off the field.
Numbered accessories
Socks, bags and the small items that are always ordered last and always arrive after the season starts.
Coaching staff
Polos, quarter-zips and softshells in the same colours. A small addition to an existing run and a whole setup on their own.
Spares
Two or three in the commonest sizes, from the same dye lot. The cheapest line in the whole quote and the one most often cut.
Questions we get asked
Can a package be split across two budget years?
Yes. We quote the whole thing, produce it in one run, and invoice in stages if that is what the purchasing calendar requires. What we avoid is splitting the production, because that is what reintroduces the colour drift the package exists to prevent.
Do you handle multiple teams within one school?
Routinely, and it is where a package earns most. Different sports, different colours where the program uses them, one production window and one delivery.
What is the lead time on a full package?
Longer than a single garment and shorter than three separate orders. We give a date against your specific list at quote stage, and the schedule is set out on the page covering how long a custom kit order takes.
Can we add pieces after approving the package?
Before the run starts, yes, and it is worth doing then rather than later. Afterwards it becomes a reorder, which is straightforward but is a separate production slot.
What is actually in a package?
Whatever the program needs — there is no fixed bundle. Most are game kit, the practice gear worn the other five days, travel or warm-up pieces, and the small items like socks and bags that otherwise get bought locally in week one.
Is a package cheaper than ordering the pieces?
Usually, because one setup, one approval and one shipment cost less than three of each. The bigger saving is the work it removes from whoever would otherwise be chasing three suppliers.
Can one package cover several sports?
That is where it earns most. Different sports, different colours where the program uses them, one production window and one delivery.
Will you give us a line-item quote for a committee?
Yes. School and club purchasing usually needs a written quote against a list rather than a price on a page — send us the roster and the list you have to justify.
Can we add coaching staff kit to it?
Yes, and it is worth doing at the same time. Polos, quarter-zips and softshells are a small addition to an existing run and a whole setup on their own.
What happens if numbers change after we order?
Before production starts, nothing — we reissue the proof sheet. Afterwards it becomes a reorder, which is straightforward but is a separate production slot.
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).
Team Uniform Packages in other colourways
The same construction, made up in different colours. Yours is produced to your own design.
Product photographs from the ZEE Sports Wear range. Every order is made to the program's own colours and design.
Design it yourself
Build the brief for your team uniform packages
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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