Sports Club Banners

Sports Club Banners – From Presentation Night to Tournament Day

Club banners carry the badge. They hang pitch-side on a Saturday, welcome visiting teams on tournament day and put sponsors centre stage on presentation night – and because sponsorship changes season by season, a printed banner is the natural yearly renewal. Ours are printed in-house on hard-wearing 440gsm PVC and delivered to clubs across the UK, with local clubs around Tavistock, Plymouth and Okehampton welcome to collect from the workshop in person.

Where Club Banners Get Used

One banner rarely sits still – a sponsor banner works the touchline in season and the presentation night backdrop off it. The same print works across the club calendar:

• Sponsor boards and pitch-side advertising along the touchline
• Club Open Days and registration days
• Presentation nights and awards evenings
• Tournament welcome signage for visiting teams
• Clubhouse and bar areas
• Car boot sales and fundraising events

Sponsor Banners – A Natural Yearly Renewal

Most grassroots clubs update their sponsorship annually, which makes a printed sponsor banner the easiest renewal conversation of the year. Two formats cover almost everything:

• Step-and-repeat sponsor walls – a grid of sponsor logos for presentation nights, tournament photo backdrops and award evenings, built in-house from your sponsors’ logo files
• Seasonal sponsor boards – pitch-side advertising that replaces last season’s faded boards with the current sponsor line-up

When sponsors change, the artwork changes and the banner reprints – no repaints, no patching, no faded touchline boards dragged out for another season.

Sponsor Banners for Pitch-Side and Presentation Night

A sponsor banner is the workhorse of club fundraising. Pitch-side, sponsor boards sit along the touchline where every spectator, every visiting parent and every passing dog walker sees them week after week. On presentation night, a step-and-repeat style sponsor wall – a grid carrying all your club sponsors’ logos – puts every sponsor in the background of every trophy photo, which is exactly the visibility they are paying for.

Sponsorship deals renew annually at most grassroots clubs, so the line-up changes each season. Because banners are printed to order, refreshing the sponsor banner is a simple reorder – same size, new sponsors, new season. It is also the easiest renewal conversation a club committee can have: the sponsor sees their name pitch-side and in every presentation photo, and the club shows them exactly what another year buys.

Design Help – Club Colours and Badges

Club identity matters, and it usually starts with a badge that has been photographed, scanned and screenshotted more times than anyone can count. Our in-house graphic design team can work from whatever you have – a badge JPG is often enough – and can rebuild a sponsor grid from a folder of mixed logo files so everything sits level and legible.

Built for Pitch-Side Weather

Touchlines are not kind to signage. 440gsm scrim PVC takes the wind, the drizzle and the sideways February rain, and every outdoor banner leaves the workshop with a hemmed edge and 11mm eyelets every metre and every corner for secure fixing. For banners that hang temporarily – presentation nights, tournament days, registration mornings – choose glued pole pockets at the top and bottom, which slide onto a pole system with no fixings to fuss over. Indoor uses such as the clubhouse bar can use the simpler Just Eyelets finish.

Sizes for Every Setting

From a compact banner for the clubhouse bar to a full pitch-side board, we print up to a 1.2 metre maximum print width with lengths to 5 metres. Tell us where the banner will hang – fence, railing, stand or presentation backdrop – and we will confirm the best size before printing.

Collect Locally or Delivered UK-Wide

Clubs around Tavistock, Plymouth and Okehampton can collect their banners from the workshop at 69 West Street – handy when registration day is a fortnight away. Everywhere else in the UK, orders are despatched in 2-3 or 4-5 working days. As a Carbon Captured company, the carbon footprint of every banner is offset through UK woodland creation – a detail worth mentioning to sponsors who care about their own green credentials.

Sports Club Banner FAQs

Can we have all our sponsors on one sponsor banner?

Yes. Send over your sponsors’ logo files and we will lay them out as a clean sponsor grid on one banner – step-and-repeat style if you want every sponsor equal, or tiered if headline sponsors deserve bigger billing. Our design team can rebuild logos that only exist as a screenshot or a fuzzy scan, so every sponsor gets their place on the sponsor banner.

Can you match our club colours exactly?

We print in full CMYK colour, which covers most club colours very closely, and we will always check how your badge artwork prints before committing to a full run. If your badge has a very particular shade – a royal blue or claret that has to be right – send the artwork early and we will flag anything worth discussing before you order.

What size works pitch-side?

It depends on your touchline – fence panels, railings and stands all suit different sizes. We print up to a 1.2 metre maximum print width with lengths to 5 metres, so send the measurements of the rail or fence and we will confirm the best fit.

How often do clubs reorder?

Most clubs reorder once a season, when sponsors change or the line-up updates for a new campaign. Because banners are printed to order rather than held in stock, the new season’s banner is always current – and many clubs add a second banner for presentation nights at the same time.

Alongside club banners, a feather flag makes a strong pitch-side companion – and for the full banner range, see our main Vinyl Banners page.