Sportswear and team kit manufacturer in Bangladesh

Team kit is a different product from activewear

Activewear is sold to individuals from a rail; team kit is sold to a club, a school or a league as a set, and every set is different. The garment is usually the same jersey, but each one carries a number, often a name, a sponsor logo that changes by season, and a size that belongs to a specific player. That changes how it is made: the fabric is white polyester that takes the whole design by sublimation, the layout is a list rather than an artwork, and the order is planned around a season start rather than a delivery week. Our activewear page covers gym and running ranges; this page covers kits.

Fabrics for jerseys, shorts and training wear

Team kit fabrics are knitted polyester, chosen for weight, breathability and how well they take sublimation. All of them are made in Bangladesh, which keeps fabric lead times short.

Sublimation, DTF and embroidery: which to use where

Sublimation prints the whole design into white polyester fabric before cutting, so stripes, gradients, sponsor panels and numbers are all one process with no set-up per colour and nothing that can crack or peel; it only works on light polyester, which is why kit fabrics are what they are. Direct-to-film transfer suits a sponsor logo on a dark or cotton-rich garment, such as a black training hoodie, and is priced per placement. Embroidery suits a club crest on polos, jackets and bench wear, where a raised badge is expected. Heat-applied names and numbers on non-sublimated garments use cut vinyl or transfer, priced per garment. Our method pages explain each process and what artwork it needs.

• Sublimation: all-over designs, numbers, names and sponsor panels on light polyester; one process, no colour limit
• DTF transfer: sponsor logos on dark or cotton-rich garments; per placement
• Embroidery: crests on polos, jackets and bench wear; digitised once, reused every season
• Cut vinyl or transfer: names and numbers on garments that are not sublimated

Names, numbers and the player list

A kit order is produced from a list, not a quantity. For each garment the list states the size, the number, the name if any, and the set it belongs to, and the sublimation layout is generated from it so each jersey is printed individually before it is cut. We ask for the list as a spreadsheet with one row per garment, check it back to you for duplicates and missing sizes before printing, and pack each set in the order of the list. A club that reorders mid-season sends the new rows only. Sponsor logos are supplied as vector artwork; where a sponsor changes, the layout changes and the fabric does not.

Sizing for a team, from under-sevens to adults

Team kit spans children’s and adult sizes in one order, and the two are graded on different charts: age and height for juniors, chest for adults. We keep both charts on file per club and grade the design across them so a sponsor panel sits in the same place on a 7–8 years jersey and an adult XXL. Fit is agreed once with a size run, a set of blank jerseys across the range that the club tries on, and the sizes on the player list refer to that run. Junior kit is children’s clothing in law: no cords in hoods or necks for the youngest sizes, and the safety and labelling rules of your market apply.

Colourfastness, and what we test

A jersey is washed after every match, often at high temperature, and a kit whose sponsor panel fades or whose red bleeds into the white is a complaint the club remembers. We test the sublimated fabric for colourfastness to washing to ISO 105-C06 and check dimensional stability to ISO 6330 before bulk, and the strike-off is washed before it is approved. Sublimation inks are fixed into the fibre rather than sitting on it, which is why a properly cured print survives; the risk is under-curing, and the wash test is how we catch it.

Small runs for clubs and start-up brands

A single club ordering thirty jerseys is below the minimum for our own partner factories, which plan lines around thousands of pieces. Small runs from 100 pieces per style and colour, in the knit categories including activewear, are made by our named small-run partner and managed by us with the same sampling and inspection; that route, its categories and its limits are set out on the activewear small-run page. For a league, a school group or a kit brand supplying many clubs, the order clears factory minimums by combining clubs on the same base garment and varying only the sublimation layout.

Ordering around a season

Kit has one deadline, the first fixture, and everything is planned backwards from it. Sampling and the size run come first, then the player list, then production; sea freight adds roughly 22 to 30 days to the UK and EU and 18 to 35 days to the US, and air freight two to five days, so the plan states which the main order uses and which a late top-up would use. We do not publish a standard production time; the quote states the date the factory has committed to, and the order confirmation carries it.

What to send for a team kit quote

There is no published starting price for team kit, because the number depends on the fabric, the sublimation coverage and the personalisation; each quote states the price per set with names and numbers as their own line.

• The garments in the set: jersey, shorts, socks, training top, and which are sublimated
• Design artwork in vector format, with sponsor logos and Pantone references
• The player list, or the expected number of players and the size split
• Junior or adult sizing, or both, and the market the kit is sold in
• Quantity per club or in total, and the date the kit must be in hand