RE:CORE. Football kits made from recycled bottles.RE:CORE. Football kits made from recycled bottles.

Football kits made from recycled plastic bottles and coloured without water. Fully custom, and they play just like the rest of our kit.

Design an Eco Kit
Recycled rPET Fabric
Waterless Dyeing
Fully Custom Designs
Custom football playing kit

From bottle to badge

RE:CORE fabric is rPET, short for recycled polyethylene terephthalate. It starts life as plastic bottles and ends up on your back four.

  1. 1)Collected

    Used plastic bottles are gathered up, keeping them out of landfill and the sea.

  2. 2)Cleaned and shredded

    Caps and labels come off, then the bottles are washed and cut into small flakes.

  3. 3)Melted

    The flakes are melted down and formed into recycled polyester pellets.

  1. 4)Spun

    The pellets are drawn out into a fine yarn.

  2. 5)Knitted

    That yarn is knitted into the breathable performance fabric your kit is cut from.

  3. 6)Your kit

    Sublimated with your design, stitched, labelled and sent to your club.

Around 16 plastic bottles go into the fabric for every RE:CORE shirt.

A lighter footprint

Because rPET starts with plastic that already exists, making the fabric takes far less from the planet.

65%
Up to 65% lower carbon footprint
90%
Less water used to make the fabric
70%
Less energy used to make the fabric
0
Crude oil needed as a raw material
Typical figures for producing recycled polyester fabric. rPET also has around a 12% lower carbon footprint than cotton.

Count your bottles

Set your squad size and how many kits each player gets to see what RE:CORE adds up to for your club.

860
Kits per player
576plastic bottles given a second life
900 Lof dye water avoided with sublimation
Estimates for 36 shirts, based on roughly 16 bottles per shirt and around 25 litres of water to dye a shirt the conventional way.
Your club's bottle wall = 10 bottles

Coloured without water

Traditional dyeing soaks fabric in vats of water, using around 25 litres of clean water to colour a single shirt and leaving wastewater behind.

We sublimate instead. Your design is printed onto transfer paper, then heat turns the ink into a gas that bonds into the fibres. No water goes in and none comes out, and the process uses roughly half the energy. It also means colours that won't crack, peel or fade.

  • Zero water used
  • Zero wastewater
  • Around 50% less energy
  • Used on every CORE kit
≈25 L
Traditional dyeing, per shirt
0 L
CORE sublimation, per shirt
RE:CORE - 100% recycled materials

No compromise on the pitch

Plays like our standard kit

Same stretch, same sweat-wicking and the same durability you get across the rest of our range.

Smoother finish

The fabric has a more premium hand-feel and is noticeably smooth against the skin.

A touch lighter

Slightly lighter to wear, which you will appreciate on a wet Sunday morning.

Any design you like

Fully sublimated, so every colour, pattern, sponsor and crest is still yours to choose.

RE:CORE pricing

Pick roughly how many of each item your club orders in a year. That becomes your saved club price list, the same on every order.

Included in the price

  • Unlimited full-colour printing
  • Club crest and sponsor logos
  • Player names and numbers
  • Bespoke design
  • Never discontinued guarantee

Outgrow your band and we’ll review your prices.

Per yearAdult incl VATKids no VAT
1-10£43.80£36.50 ex VAT£36.50
10-25£41.80£34.83 ex VAT£34.80
25-50£40.80£34.00 ex VAT£34.00
50+£39.80£33.17 ex VAT£33.10
150+Priced for your club

Full kit: shirt and shorts, recycled fabric.

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Eco kit, answered

Will RE:CORE kit feel different from your standard kit?

Only in a good way. It performs the same on the pitch, and the fabric is a little smoother and slightly lighter to wear.

Can we still have a fully custom design?

Yes. RE:CORE kits are sublimated just like the rest of our range, so your colours, patterns, sponsors and crest are all fully customisable, and our free design service works exactly the same way.

Which parts of the kit are made from recycled fabric?

Both the shirts and the shorts in a RE:CORE football kit are made from rPET fabric, spun from recycled plastic bottles.

Is the waterless dyeing only used on eco kit?

No. Every CORE playing kit is coloured with sublimation, so no water is used to dye any of our kits. RE:CORE adds recycled fabric on top of that.

How do we order RE:CORE kit?

Just let us know you want RE:CORE when you request a quote or a design. Your account manager will set your kit up on recycled fabric, and everything else works the same as a standard order.

Thinking about eco kit?
Book a quick call and we will talk you through RE:CORE fabrics, designs and timings for your club.
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Kit out your club, the RE:CORE way

Fully custom football kits made from recycled bottles, designed free by our team and delivered ready to hand out. Ask for RE:CORE on your quote.