Club Lab provides free, custom team stores for youth and recreational sports clubs, handling design, manufacturing, and direct-to-player shipping. The platform eliminates inventory risk by producing gear on-demand in its own factory, allowing clubs to generate fundraising revenue on every order. It supports 39 sports and offers over 175 customizable products, with a storefront live within 48 hours of onboarding.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Youth and recreational sports clubs often struggle with the logistical and financial burden of ordering team gear. Traditional methods require upfront inventory purchases, involve complex coordination with multiple vendors, and leave clubs with little to no fundraising margin, while parents face confusing ordering processes and delayed deliveries.
Solution
Club Lab offers a comprehensive platform that builds, manufactures, and delivers custom team stores for free. The service handles everything from a quick 5-minute onboarding form to a fully branded online storefront, live within 48 hours. Parents and players order directly from the store, customizing names and numbers, while Club Lab's in-house factory sublimates and ships each item directly to the player's doorstep. This model eliminates inventory risk and middlemen, ensuring clubs retain the fundraising margin on every order.
Target Audience
Primary customers are administrators, coaches, and volunteers of youth and recreational sports clubs who need a streamlined, fundraising-friendly solution for team apparel and gear.
Features
- Free setup with no upfront costs or inventory requirements, as all gear is manufactured on-demand.
- A dedicated admin portal for clubs to manage products, track orders in real-time, and customize branding.
- A catalog of over 175 custom products across 39 different sports.
- Direct-to-player shipping, removing the need for bulk order distribution.
- In-house manufacturing ensures quality control and eliminates third-party markups.