Custom football programs give fans and families a polished way to follow the game. These full-color booklets include team rosters, player photos, senior spotlights, season schedules, coach messages, and sponsor ads. Ideal for any sports program, high school football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, soccer, and community athletic events, each program is professionally printed and saddle-stitched for durability.
Printing begins after your artwork is received and your PDF proof is approved.
Both stocks give sports programs a smooth, professional printed surface. 80lb gloss text is a practical choice when keeping the booklet lighter and controlling cost matters, while 100lb gloss text gives the entire program a little more substance in the hand.
For programs that need a more premium feel, you can add 100lb gloss cover stock around the inside pages. Cover stock is considerably stiffer than text-weight paper, giving the front and back of the booklet more structure while protecting the pages inside.
Choose full-color printing throughout when photos, school colors, graphics, and sponsor advertisements need maximum impact. Grayscale throughout provides a more economical approach, while a full-color cover with grayscale inside pages can provide a strong balance between presentation and budget.
After printing, the pages are collated, folded, and stapled through the center fold. This is called saddle stitching. It creates the familiar finished booklet format used for football programs, magazines, playbills, event programs, and similar publications.
Printed booklets are produced from folded sheets, so the total page count must work in multiples of four. That means common choices include 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 pages and so on. Our ordering options make this easier so you do not have to calculate the printing imposition yourself.
Football schedules create hard deadlines, and roster changes or late sponsor ads can eat into production time quickly. Start the printing conversation before the file is perfect. Knowing your quantity, approximate pages, and deadline early gives everyone more room to handle final changes.
Images copied from social media, screenshots, tiny logos, or heavily compressed sponsor ads may look acceptable on a phone but reproduce poorly in print. Original photos, PDFs, and higher-resolution graphics give the printing process much better material to work with.
Booklet page counts must fall into groups of four. If your finished layout stops at 18 pages, for example, additional pages will be needed to reach the next printable booklet count. Knowing this early can give you room for another sponsor, team photo, schedule, notes page, or other useful content instead of discovering the issue at the deadline.
This is a straightforward sports-program configuration with a smooth gloss surface on every page. It works especially well for larger quantities, weekly programs, and projects where you want professional booklet printing without adding a separate heavy cover.
Moving to 100lb gloss text gives the complete program a slightly heavier, more substantial feel while still allowing the cover and inside pages to remain on the same type of stock.
Add heavier gloss cover stock when you want the program to feel more like a finished magazine or commemorative booklet. This can be particularly appealing for homecoming, senior night, playoffs, championship events, and season programs people are likely to save.
Full color throughout is ideal for photography and school branding. Grayscale throughout can help manage printing costs. Another popular approach is a colorful front and back presentation with grayscale interior pages for rosters, statistics, articles, schedules, and other information.
Have Content But No Idea Which Printing Options to Pick?
Send us what you know: finished size, approximate pages, quantity, event date, and whether the program contains lots of photos or mostly text. We can help you narrow down the paper and color configuration without expecting you to speak printing-industry jargon.
A game-specific program can give fans the current roster, opponent information, schedules, updated statistics, sponsor messages, and other details for that week’s matchup. Programs may be handed out at the gate or sold as part of a booster fundraiser.
Special games often call for more than the standard weekly information. Senior profiles, childhood photos, recognition pages, homecoming court information, alumni features, and commemorative content can make these editions worth keeping.
Some organizations print one larger program that can be used throughout the season. These editions may include the complete schedule, player profiles, team history, coaching staff, school traditions, sponsor advertisements, and information that stays useful from one home game to the next.
Sports booklet printing also works well beyond football. Tournament programs can organize brackets, game times, participating teams, venue information, rules, sponsor recognition, and schedules into one reference spectators can carry throughout the event.
A fan may only have a few seconds to look up number 42 before the next play begins. Clear columns, readable type, sensible spacing, and enough contrast make roster pages far more useful than squeezing every name into the smallest possible area.
Sponsors are supporting the program because they want to be seen. Ads that are shrunk too aggressively or surrounded by clutter lose value. Gathering good-quality sponsor logos and advertisements early also prevents a scramble during final layout.
Text, jersey numbers, logos, and faces should not sit dangerously close to the outside edge of the page. Files with artwork that extends to the edge should also include proper bleed so photographs and backgrounds can be trimmed cleanly without leaving unwanted white edges.
Printing can reproduce exactly what is in the file, including mistakes. Player names, jersey numbers, sponsor phone numbers, schedules, dates, and senior information deserve a final human review before production, particularly when several people contributed content.
Start with the material your program needs: rosters, photos, schedules, sponsor ads, coach messages, senior features, statistics, school logos, and other content. You can contact CenTex while those pieces are still coming together so the deadline and booklet specifications can be planned early.
If the program has already been designed, a press-ready PDF is generally the best file to submit. If your group needs help organizing the material, talk with our team about design assistance. We can also review supplied artwork for practical printing concerns before production.
Before printing, review names, numbers, dates, sponsor ads, page order, photos, schedules, and other details. This is the point to make corrections. Once the booklet has been approved, the job can move into printing and finishing.
Approved program pages are commercially printed, assembled in the correct sequence, folded, and saddle-stitched through the spine to create the finished booklet. The completed order is then prepared for local pickup, delivery when available, or shipment to your organization.
If this is your first football program, you should not have to guess your way through the order. CenTex Printing gives you a real printing team to contact when you have questions about page counts, stocks, artwork, photographs, binding, quantities, or deadlines.
A business brochure can sometimes wait another day. Friday night’s game generally cannot. Sports program printing is deadline-driven, so sharing your event date early helps our team plan production around when the booklets actually need to be distributed.
The goal is not simply to put ink on paper. Proper printing, page sequence, folding, saddle stitching, trimming, and final preparation all contribute to a sports program that feels like a finished publication rather than a stack of copied pages.
CenTex Printing is based in Temple, Texas and works with schools, teams, businesses, and organizations throughout Central Texas. We can also ship sports programs to customers across the United States, so your team does not need to be local to work with our printing company.
Whether you already have a finished 40-page football program or you are a booster parent staring at a folder full of photos, sponsor ads, rosters, and Word documents wondering where to begin, CenTex Printing can help you move the project toward a finished booklet. Place An Order, Request A Quote or call 254-771-2422 to talk through your page count, paper, color choices, quantity, artwork, and event deadline. We want the ordering process to feel manageable so you can spend less time worrying about printing and more time getting ready for game day.
You do not need experience buying commercial printing to order a sports program. These answers cover the practical questions booster clubs, schools, coaches, parents, and event organizers commonly have when they begin putting a booklet together.
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