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Here is how to get sizes, numbers, lead times and budget sorted before the first game.",{"type":136,"content":137},"doc",[138,144,151,155,159,164,168,172,177,181,193,198,202,207,220,224,229,242],{"type":139,"content":140},"paragraph",[141],{"text":142,"type":143},"Every summer I promise myself I will sort the kit early, and every summer I end up chasing a supplier in the last week of August while a parent asks me for the third time what size their lad needs. Ordering kit is one of those jobs that feels small until it isn't. Get it wrong and you are handing out mismatched shirts in September, or worse, a couple of kids are stood there with nothing while everyone else runs out in the new strip. Here is how I get it done now, and the mistakes I have made so you do not have to.","text",{"type":145,"attrs":146,"content":148},"heading",{"level":147},2,[149],{"text":150,"type":143},"Order earlier than feels necessary",{"type":139,"content":152},[153],{"text":154,"type":143},"This is the big one. If your season starts at the beginning of September, you want your order placed by early July at the latest. Plain kit off the shelf can turn up in a week or two, but the moment you add printed numbers, a sponsor logo or a club badge, you are looking at three to five weeks, and that is before you factor in the summer rush when every club in the country is ordering at once. Suppliers get swamped in August. Ordering in July is the difference between a relaxed handout at the first training session and a panicked phone call the night before your opening fixture.",{"type":139,"content":156},[157],{"text":158,"type":143},"If you are staying with the same manufacturer and design as last year, check the range is still being made before you assume you can just top up. Kit manufacturers retire designs on a two or three year cycle. Nothing stings like finding out the exact shirt three of your squad already own has been discontinued and you now need a full set to match.",{"type":145,"attrs":160,"content":161},{"level":147},[162],{"text":163,"type":143},"What a full kit actually includes",{"type":139,"content":165},[166],{"text":167,"type":143},"It is easy to think of kit as just the shirts. A proper matchday set is more than that, and it helps to list it out so nothing gets forgotten. For a typical grassroots team you are looking at outfield shirts, shorts and socks, a goalkeeper top in a colour that clearly stands out from the outfield players, and ideally a set of training bibs in a different colour again. Many leagues also want you to carry a change of shirts or at least a set of bibs in case of a colour clash with the away side, so it is worth having a second colour of something in the bag.",{"type":139,"content":169},[170],{"text":171,"type":143},"Beyond the playing kit, the things that get forgotten are the boring ones that matter on the day: a decent set of match balls in the right size for your age group, a first aid kit, and a bag big enough to carry the lot without the strap snapping in the car park. If you are kitting out coaches too, a couple of branded jackets or quarter zips make the club look the part and cost less than you would think.",{"type":145,"attrs":173,"content":174},{"level":147},[175],{"text":176,"type":143},"Sizing children is the hard part",{"type":139,"content":178},[179],{"text":180,"type":143},"Adults you can guess. Kids you cannot, because they grow over the summer and the child you measured in June is a different shape by September. My rule is to size up rather than down. A shirt that is slightly big gets tucked in and lasts the season. A shirt that is snug in July is unwearable by Christmas. Most suppliers will send you a sizing kit or a set of sample garments on request, and it is worth the hassle of getting the squad to try them on at a training session rather than trusting a size chart and a parent's best guess.",{"type":139,"content":182},[183,186,191],{"text":184,"type":143,"marks":185},"Keep a simple record of who has what size. A spreadsheet or a note in whatever app you use to run the team is fine, as long as it is written down somewhere that is not the back of your hand. When a new player joins in October you want to know at a glance what you ordered so you can match them up. This is the same admin muscle as tracking availability and subs, and if you are already running your squad through something like ",[],{"text":8,"type":143,"marks":187},[188],{"type":189,"attrs":190},"link",{"href":21},{"text":192,"type":143},", the player list you already keep is the natural place to hang a kit size next to each name.",{"type":145,"attrs":194,"content":195},{"level":147},[196],{"text":197,"type":143},"Go easy on names and numbers at young ages",{"type":139,"content":199},[200],{"text":201,"type":143},"Printed squad numbers look great and help with matchday, but be careful about personalising too heavily with the younger age groups. Squads change. A player moves clubs, a new family joins, and suddenly the shirt with a name on the back is no use to anyone. For under sevens through to under nines I keep it to numbers only, and even then I order a few spare plain shirts so a late arrival is not left out. From the older age groups, where squads are more settled, a bit more personalisation is fine. Check your league handbook too, because some competitions have rules on numbering and even on sleeve sponsors.",{"type":145,"attrs":203,"content":204},{"level":147},[205],{"text":206,"type":143},"Sort the money before you order, not after",{"type":139,"content":208},[209,212,218],{"text":210,"type":143,"marks":211},"Kit is one of the bigger costs a grassroots team carries, and the worst position to be in is having ordered before you know how you are paying for it. Decide early whether the club funds it, whether it comes out of subs, or whether you are chasing a sponsor. A local sponsor covering the shirts is common and genuinely worth pursuing, and I have written a separate guide on ",[],{"text":213,"type":143,"marks":214},"how to find sponsorship for a grassroots team",[215],{"type":189,"attrs":216},{"href":217},"/how-to-get-sponsorship-grassroots-football-team",{"text":219,"type":143}," if that is the route you want to take. If subs are covering it, factor the kit into what you set the fees at rather than hitting parents with a separate charge later, which never lands well.",{"type":139,"content":221},[222],{"text":223,"type":143},"Whichever way you fund it, get the sponsor artwork and logo files confirmed before you place the order. A supplier cannot print a badge from a screenshot of a Facebook page, and waiting on a decent logo file is one of the most common reasons a kit order stalls.",{"type":145,"attrs":225,"content":226},{"level":147},[227],{"text":228,"type":143},"A simple pre-season order timeline",{"type":139,"content":230},[231,234,240],{"text":232,"type":143,"marks":233},"If you want the short version, here it is. In June, confirm your numbers for next season and check last year's design is still available. In early July, run a sizing session at training, confirm your sponsor and artwork, and place the order. Through late July and August, chase the delivery, order any spares for late joiners, and get everything bagged and labelled. That leaves the kit sitting ready while you deal with the fixtures and everything else the new season throws at you. Getting it all logged alongside your squad admin makes the whole thing calmer, and if you have not set that side up yet, our ",[],{"text":235,"type":143,"marks":236},"pre-season checklist",[237],{"type":189,"attrs":238},{"href":239},"/grassroots-football-pre-season-checklist",{"text":241,"type":143}," runs through the other jobs worth ticking off before the first whistle.",{"type":139,"content":243},[244],{"text":245,"type":143},"None of this is complicated. It just rewards doing it in July rather than the last week of August, which is a lesson I have learned the hard way more than once.","tiptap","","2026-08-03T08:00:00+00:00","Grassroots Football Kit: Pre-Season Ordering Guide","How to order grassroots football kit for the new season: lead times, sizing kids, squad numbers, funding and a July timeline to avoid an August panic.",{},1785744183102]