About

Sporting Caps is a leading supplier of traditional sporting caps to school, college, university and club sporting teams around the world.

The term 'Sporting Cap' dates from a practice started in the United Kingdom in 1886 when a cap was awarded to each player representing their country in Association Football.

In the early days of football, the concept of each team wearing a set of matching shirts had not been universally adopted, so each side would distinguish itself from the other by wearing a specific sort of cap.

The England FA began awarding velvet caps to players selected for international games and the tradition extended to other sports, particularly rugby.

The act of awarding a cap is now international and the tradition is applied to other levels of sporting achivement.

The practice of awarding a physical cap for each game is rare due to cost, more common is the award of a cap to an athlete to recognise their achivement of being part of a team in a particular season or special event like a tournament or tour.  They are also offten used to recognise particular individual milestones, like number of games played etc.

Start a new sporting tradition at your School,College, University or Club by presenting traditional Sporting Caps to athletes that make the team.  Contact us now to start the conversation.