VS Wear designs and manufactures custom sports uniforms for the football, rugby, cricket and netball sides of Balmain and the inner west, produced factory-direct at 30 to 40% below usual retail pricing and delivered on a guaranteed 3 to 4 week turnaround from design approval.
One quote can cover every grade a club runs, whichever ground each of them plays at. Minimum 20 units per design.
Football leads by a distance on this peninsula, with the codes that share the same foreshore grounds behind it.
Strips, keeper tops, shorts and training gear for grades playing out of Callan Park and Birchgrove. Browse our soccer uniforms range.
Jerseys, shorts, socks and training tops for the junior league sides who play at Birchgrove Oval. See our rugby uniforms range.
Playing shirts, coloured one-day gear and caps for the summer tenants of Birchgrove Oval. Check our cricket uniforms range.
Dresses, bodysuits, skirts and warm-ups for the court sides sharing Inner West Council facilities. See our netball uniforms range.
Singlets, tees, shorts and layers for squads training at Balmain Road Sporting Ground midweek. Browse our training and gym wear range.
Polos, jackets and hoodies for grades who only meet each other at Waterfront Oval on presentation day. See our off-field wear range.
The things clubs usually get charged extra for are already in the price.
Professional design is free, drawn by our in-house team from your colours, logo and ideas. Once your order is placed, mock-up revisions are unlimited right through to design approval.
Production is guaranteed at 3 to 4 weeks from the day you approve the design. The minimum order is 20 units per design.
On this peninsula the third line does most of the work. Junior and adult sizes go into the same production run, under one approved design, which matters when you are ordering for grades that play at Callan Park, at Birchgrove and at Balmain Road on the same weekend. One run, one approval, then the parcels get split.
A club voting on a design for dozens of teams at once is being asked to picture something that does not exist yet. Photographs of finished orders shorten that argument faster than any description does, particularly when the people deciding will not see the gear on a field for months.
Browse 1,000+ real custom uniform photos, including finished teamwear and customers wearing their VS Wear uniforms.
View the VS Wear GalleryBalmain and District Football Club has grown into the largest community football club in Australia, with more than 3,100 players registered. It does not play at one address. Home grounds include Waterfront Oval on Waterfront Drive at Callan Park in Lilyfield, and Glover Street Sporting Ground at Birchgrove. Balmain Road Sporting Ground is managed by Inner West Council. Birchgrove Oval sits on the harbour foreshore as one of Inner West Council's premier sports and recreation venues, and carries football, junior rugby league and cricket across the year.
At that size an order stops being a design decision and becomes a logistics one. Three things follow for whoever is holding the spreadsheet.
You can price every grade in one pass and let one approval cover all of them, then break the delivery up internally. Grades spread across Callan Park and Birchgrove still come off a single production run under one approved design, which is the only way the colours stay identical between an under-8 side and a first grade.
With thousands of players on the books, a small margin of guesswork turns into dozens of garments nobody wears. Order to the confirmed registration list, add a modest spread of spares through the middle sizes, and take names for anything outside the standard run before you approve.
A club this size reorders in waves as grades turn over rather than replacing everything at once, so the design has to still work when only two teams are buying. Winter here is wet and the harbour-side grounds hold it, so build the range with the layers your grades will actually train in. A club still deciding in February is fitting design, approval and the guaranteed 3 to 4 week production window into its busiest registration weeks. Send us your grade list and colours.
Professional design is free, drawn by our in-house team from your colours, logo and ideas.
Once your order is placed, mock-up revisions are unlimited right through to design approval.
Every order carries our 100% remake guarantee: finished garments that do not match the approved artwork or production files are remade at our cost.
VS Wear is Australian owned and operated, and your order is looked after by our Australian-based team.
The design consideration that matters most in Balmain is depth rather than novelty. A club fielding scores of teams needs a strip that reads clearly at junior sizes and at senior sizes, in the same colours, with room for sponsor placements that change year to year.
That is a job for a designer working from your brief, not a template with your logo dropped into it. Unlimited revisions matter for the same reason: a committee representing that many grades rarely agrees on the first version.
Uniforms are designed and produced centrally, then freighted to whichever address your club or school nominates, whether that is a clubhouse, a home ground or a school office.
For a club spread across the peninsula, nominate one person and one address rather than trying to split the freight by ground, then distribute from there. We also supply Annandale and Camperdown just across the bridge, and the full list of New South Wales cities we service covers the rest of the state through our New South Wales cities directory.
Committees comparing home and away options can start with our free custom soccer uniforms guide, which covers strip design, numbering and squad sizing.
Yes, and you should. Junior and adult sizes go into the same production run, under one approved design, so grades at Callan Park and grades at Birchgrove finish identical. You split the parcels after they arrive.
VS Wear designs and manufactures fully sublimated custom sports uniforms for clubs, schools, associations and corporate teams: playing kit, training gear, warm-ups and off-field wear across the football codes, netball, basketball, cricket and soccer. Every order is produced factory-direct and shipped Australia-wide.
Work from the registration list rather than a show of hands, then add spares through the middle sizes. At Balmain scale a rough estimate is not a small error, it is a shelf full of unworn gear.
Your approved artwork and production files stay on file, so a two-team reorder comes back matching the rest of the club. That is what makes designing a family rather than a one-off worth the extra thought up front.
Three to four weeks from design approval, guaranteed. The design and revision stage sits in front of that, and how long it takes depends on how quickly your committee signs off the mock-up.
Not the order, only where you play while it happens. Inner West Council is upgrading Callan Park fields at Waterfront and Balmain Road to all-weather surfaces, and a club shifting grounds mid-season is exactly the club that benefits from having its gear already in hand.
The minimum order is 20 units per design. Adult and junior sizes can share the one production run, so a single side with its coaching staff generally clears it.
One nominated address with one person expecting it. Freight to a ground that is only staffed on match day is how large orders go missing on this peninsula.
No. VS Wear does not have a store or showroom in Balmain. Every order is designed and produced centrally, then freighted to the address you nominate, whether that is a clubroom or a school office. That model is what holds pricing 30 to 40% below usual retail, and it means Balmain clubs get the same free design service, the same guaranteed 3 to 4 week turnaround and the same Australian-based support as any other order in the country.
We quote and deliver across the peninsula and beyond it, including Birchgrove, Rozelle, Lilyfield, Annandale and Camperdown. The pages linked above cover several in detail and the rest are quoted on identical terms.
Some clubs here start with a single side to see how it goes. Others send the whole grade list at once, which at this scale is usually the cheaper route.
Send the garments, numbers and colours for a single side. The minimum order is 20 units per design.
Quote every grade in one pass. Production is guaranteed at 3 to 4 weeks from the day you approve the design.
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