Planning Flags for Supporters' Clubs, Away Days and Group Trips

Most group orders settle into the same shape: one large flag that the whole group stands behind, plus a smaller personal flag for anyone who wants their own. That split does two jobs. The big flag gives the group a presence in the stand, and the individual flags give people something to take home.

Decide the split before you collect a single design. It stops you ending up with eleven flags that are all trying to do the same thing.

Size drives the design, not the other way round. Fine detail and small text that look superb on a 12×6ft banner vanish completely on a 3×2ft flag, and a design built for a small flag looks thin and lost when it's blown up.

As a rough shape for a group: 3×2ft for personal flags and gifts, 5×3ft as the all-rounder most people pick, 8×5ft and 10×5ft for a group display, and 12×6ft for something that stays fixed at the ground.

If your flags are meant to be seen together, they need to look like they belong together. Pick two or three colours, one typeface and a simple layout rule — group name at the top, personal name below, badge centred, for example — and apply it to every flag.

This is the single biggest difference between a display that looks deliberate and one that looks like six separate orders that happened to arrive in the same week. It costs nothing and takes ten minutes.

Get the exact text from every person, written the way it should print. Not 'something with my name on it', but the actual words, in the right capitals and the right spelling.

Keep it in one shared list, one row per flag. Our designer allows up to 40 characters of text per layer, so tell people the limit up front and ask them to stay inside it. That alone saves a round of messages later.

Check the spelling yourself before ordering. A misspelt surname on a printed flag isn't something anyone can fix afterwards.

Standard production is 2 to 3 working days, with free UK delivery taking 1 to 2 days after that. The printing itself is quick, so the slow part of a group order is almost always the bit where you're waiting on other people.

Give yourself at least a week from the moment you place the order, and start collecting designs a fortnight before you need them if there's a trip or a tournament involved. Ordering the day before an away day is the one thing that reliably goes wrong.

Save each finished design as you go, one per person, named after them. When it comes to ordering, you'll be able to see at a glance who is covered and who has gone quiet.

Open every design in the preview before you order. Five seconds per flag catches the reversed colours, the name that's too small, and the badge sitting half off the edge.

A 12×6ft flag is a serious piece of fabric. It's brilliant fixed to a rail in the stand and a nuisance on a train. For a group trip, most people are better served by a 5×3ft they can roll up and put in a bag, with one large flag travelling separately in the group's kit.

Every flag comes with reinforced edges and metal eyelets as standard, so hanging one on a rail or a fence is straightforward.

For multi-flag and group orders, get in touch before you place them and we'll talk you through the options. It's worth doing early, rather than after eleven separate orders have already gone through.