Umbro Football Shorts for Clubs and Teams

If you have landed here, you probably already have the shirts sorted and now need the bottom half of the strip to match. Umbro football shorts are matchday shorts supplied in club colours to pair with an Umbro shirt and sock set, available in junior through to adult sizes, with player numbers added in-house at our Canvey Island unit.

We have been kitting out grassroots clubs since 2001, so we know the shorts order usually arrives with a deadline attached and a WhatsApp group full of half-answered size questions. Browse the wider Umbro football range if you still need shirts, socks, or benchwear to go with them.

Matchday Shorts That Match Your Kit

Match shorts and training shorts serve different purposes, and picking the wrong one is the most common mistake we see in squad orders. Match shorts are cut for matchday: a plain, lightweight polyester body, an elasticated waistband with a drawcord, and a colour palette built to sit alongside Umbro's teamwear shirt and sock ranges. Training shorts often carry extra branding, pockets, or a heavier fabric, which is fine for a Tuesday night session but looks off next to a matchday shirt. This page is the matchday side of the range.

Colour continuity is the real issue for most kit officers, and it is the question we field most often at SX Sports. Umbro teamwear colourways are designed to tone across the strip, so royal shorts ordered against a royal shirt will sit correctly, but a shirt bought 2 or 3 seasons ago may have been a different shade or may no longer be in the current teamwear line at all. Send us a photo of the existing shirt, or better still, the label, and we will tell you honestly whether the current shirt colour matches or whether it is worth moving the whole strip together. That is a far cheaper conversation than a squad of 16 turning up with 2 slightly different blues.

Two-tone, hooped, and striped shirts need a decision, not a match. The usual approach is to match the shirt's dominant body colour to the shorts, then use the secondary colour on the socks or the number print. We are an authorised Umbro stockist, so what you see here is genuine Umbro teamwear rather than a lookalike, and the fabric is straightforward: light, breathable, and it keeps its shape and colour with normal care at the temperature on the label.

Adding Player Numbers and Club Colours

Yes, you can get Umbro football shorts with player numbers printed on them. We print numbers on the legs in-house, matching them to the numbers on the backs of the shirts, so the squad looks like one team rather than a collection of individual orders. Everything is done in-house using DTF (Direct to Film) printing, which gives sharper edges on numbers and crests and colours that hold up better to repeated washing than older heat-transfer methods.

The detail that finishes a grassroots kit is the consistency of print treatment. If the shirt backs are in white block numbers with a navy outline, the shorts should use the same font, colour, and outline on the same leg for every player. We keep your club's print file on record so a shirt ordered in October still matches shorts ordered in February. Alongside the numbers, we can add an embroidered club crest, player initials, or a sponsor logo, provided you have the artwork and permission to use it. Our custom printing and embroidery service covers it all under one roof, which is why we can keep the whole strip visually tied together.

Personalised shorts are made to order, so settle sizes before anything goes to print. For personalised orders, we typically work to around 2 to 3 weeks, though this depends on the season and how busy the print room is. We will not give you a guaranteed date we cannot stand behind, but we will give you a realistic one when you place the order and tell you if it slips.

Junior and Adult Sizing

Umbro football shorts run from junior sizes through to adult sizes, and the grading does not overlap neatly at the crossover ages. A well-built 13-year-old is often better in a small adult than the largest junior, while a slighter under-15 may still want a junior large. That crossover is where nearly every sizing complaint we handle originates, and it is worth 10 minutes of your time to get right.

Fit is driven by the waist rather than the leg. The elasticated waistband with drawcord gives useful room on either side of the marked size, so if a player sits between 2 sizes, take the smaller one for matchday shorts and let the drawcord do the work. Junior leg lengths are cut shorter in proportion, which is what you want: a junior in adult shorts ends up with the hem below the knee and spends the match hitching them up.

The most reliable method is a size set at kit night. Get the squad trying on sizes together before anything is printed, rather than collecting numbers off a spreadsheet, and talk to us first if you want help working out a sensible size spread for a mixed-age squad. Get this settled early, because printed and embroidered items are made specifically for you and are not returnable unless faulty. That is the position under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, which exempt personalised goods from the standard cancellation right. Plain-stock shorts with no print can be exchanged in the usual way if the size is wrong. While you are checking sizes, it is worth doing the same for your Umbro football shirts and Umbro football socks so the whole strip is ordered in one go.