Custom Soccer Patches
A soccer order is almost always a crest: the club badge on the chest of every kit, often with a league, tournament, or sponsor patch on the sleeve. Crests are small, carry more text than most patches, and live on shirts that are washed every week. Those three facts drive every choice below, from woven versus embroidered to the backing you pick.
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Getting the Crest Right
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Small text needs the right patch type
Club names around a ring, a founding year, and championship stars are the details that blur on a small embroidered patch. Woven patches use finer thread woven flat into the fabric, so they hold small lettering and thin lines sharply at crest size. Choose embroidered when the crest is a bold shape with a short name, and you want the classic raised texture at the lowest price.
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Full-color and gradient badges
Crests with photographic elements, shading, or many blended colors are a job for printed patches , which reproduce the artwork as-is instead of translating it into thread colors.
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Shield or circle: border choice
Most crests are shields or circles, and a merrowed border (the classic wrapped stitched edge) is included at no charge on those shapes. A crest with a custom outline, such as a ball, a lion, or a ribbon that breaks the shield, needs a hot-cut border for a small per-patch charge. See selecting a border .
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Club colors
Up to seven thread colors are included. If your club has official color codes, put them on the quote form and we will match them from our thread charts on the free proof, so every age group's crest comes out the same shade.
Sizing a Crest
Pricing is by average size: add the crest's height and width, divide by two, and round up to the nearest half inch, so a 3-inch round crest is a 3-inch patch and a 2.5-inch by 3.5-inch shield is also a 3-inch patch. Measure the chest panel on the actual kit before you settle on a size, and check it with the patch size calculator . The more text the crest carries, the more size it needs: a crest under 2 inches should be a symbol and initials, not a full club name.
A Backing That Survives Weekly Washing
Kits go in the wash after every match, and that is the whole backing decision for soccer. A sew-on backing is permanent for the life of the shirt and costs nothing extra; it is the safe choice for crests that must still be there at the end of the season. An iron-on backing is faster to apply across a squad but is rated for roughly 20 to 30 washes, so we recommend stitching around the edge after ironing ( how to iron on a patch ). Use a Velcro backing on kit bags and training gear where the badge should move between items; the patch ships with a matching loop piece to sew onto the bag. Full comparison: iron-on vs. sew-on vs. Velcro .
Sleeve Patches for Leagues, Tournaments, and Sponsors
Sleeve patches are usually smaller and simpler than the crest, and they change more often: a new tournament each season, a sponsor for one year, a memorial band. Order them as their own line item so the quantity and size are priced separately from the crest, and choose iron-on or Velcro when they are meant to come off again. If several age groups share the same league patch, order the club's full count in one run; the per-patch price drops at each quantity tier on the pricing page .
What a Club Order Costs
Two typical soccer line items, priced from our current tables:
- 100 × 3-inch woven club crests $2.84 each About $284.00 for the run, before optional upgrades.
- 200 × 2.5-inch embroidered sleeve patches, moderate coverage $1.26 each About $252.00 for the run, before optional upgrades.
Artwork, digital proof, revisions, setup, and shipping in the continental U.S. are included. Border, backing, and extra thread colors are priced on the patch options page; request a free quote and proof for an exact figure on your crest.
Questions Clubs Ask Before Ordering
Our crest has the club name around the edge. Will it be readable?
At crest size, yes on a woven patch, and on an embroidered patch if the crest is large enough for the letter height. Send the artwork and the size you need; the free digital proof shows exactly how the lettering will come out, and we will tell you if it needs to be woven or larger.
Can you match our exact club colors?
Yes. Give us Pantone or other color codes with your artwork and we match them from our thread selection during the proof stage. Up to seven thread colors are included in the price.
We have U8 through U16 teams. Do we need a separate order for each?
No. If the crest is the same, combine every team's count into one quantity; the price per patch is set by the total. Only a different size or a different design needs its own line item.
Which is more durable for a kit, woven or embroidered?
Embroidered patches are the more rugged of the two and the better choice for hard use; woven patches trade some of that for finer detail. On a shirt, the backing matters more than the patch type: a sewn-on crest of either kind stays put for the life of the kit.
What is the minimum order, and how long does it take?
Ten patches for embroidered, woven, printed, and name patches; fifty for PVC. Turnaround depends on the patch type and starts after you approve the proof; current delivery times are on our FAQ . Put your first-match date on the quote form and we will confirm it before you order.