Trying to find the perfect gift can be very stressful, so we’ve rounded up the best women in sport merchandise around to lend a hand.
After a tough year, things are beginning to look a little brighter for us here in Australia and the prospect of spending time with loved ones over the holiday period is a welcome reality for many. Gift lists are being composed for Santa to come through with the goods and we have a few women in sport items you might want to add to your list.
Books
A great go to for gift lists and giving. Here’s a few titles released this year that we can highly recommend. Get out there and support your local bookstore!
- Women in Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s (Marion Stell, Heather Reid)
- Clearing Boundaries: The Rise of Australian Women’s Cricket (Fiona Bollen with Matt Bonser)
- Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan (Jessica Luther, Kavitha Davidson)
- Victress: Women who paved the way in Australian Sport (Corinne Hall, Michael Randall)
- One Life Megan Rapinoe
- Developing Sport for Women and Girls (Emma Sherry [Editor], Katie Rowe [Editor])
Merchandise
We all know how hard it is to find women’s sport related merch and even harder to find a women’s fit. When the Matildas released their 2020/21 away kit with no women’s cut, the displeasure was unequivocal. After promising to rectify it by 2022 for the next version of the national kit, the FFA relented and Nike have now released the away kit in women’s fit. A win for women’s sports fans! Grab both versions here!
Aussie Rules
AFLW
The 2021 season gear hasn’t yet arrived in time for this list, but you might be able to find some 2020 season merch for a bargain via your club’s website.
Basketball
WNBL
Grab some supporter gear while the season is on or sign up as a member via the WNBL Store.
WNBA
Stock up on some Seattle Storm Champions gear or the iconic orange WNBA hoodie at the WNBA Store.
Cricket
WBBL
The 2020 season WBBL caps with the high pony design are a great example of products being redesigned with women in mind, available at the Cricket Australia shop.
Southern Stars
Want to relive the T20 WWC from earlier this year? Let’s be honest, we all do. Get some discount merch here.
Fierce Girls Cricket
Fierce Girls Cricket focus is on providing female inspired equipment and accessories that allows girls to express themselves and feel comfortable whilst playing the game they love. Check out the Fierce Girls Cricket range.
Football
Matildas
The new women’s cut of the 2020/21 away jersey is in! Sometimes people in power do listen. While you can’t quite purchase them in women’s sizes yet, you can submit an expression of interest to be first in line when they do become available next year.
W-League
Head to your club’s website shop for the new season W-League guernseys.
International
With so many Aussie players playing in the UK and European leagues and the US NWSL, head to their club’s webstore to see what is available.
Netball
Super Netball
What a season 2020 was for the Super Netball competition. If you fell in love with a team in the intensified bubble competition, go and sign up as a member for next year or head to your club’s website to grab some merch. For Melbourne Vixens fans, they have a whole premiership range available for preorder.
Confident Girls Foundation
Fitness brand PTP have a range of equipment that donates 5% of the sales of the Confident Girls range to the foundation. You can also make a direct donation.
Rugby League
NRLW
Unfortunately, rugby league hasn’t capitalised on the potential market for NRLW and Women’s State of Origin merchandise or memberships. Supporters are keen to spend their cash, but alas, there is not much to purchase or ways to support their women’s teams.
Friends of Siren
By The White Line
Been loving the By The White Line diaries? Head on over to Rachel’s store to buy a print of some of her beautiful landscape photography.
The Outer Sanctum Podcast
Our footy-loving sisters have a range of awesome tees for you to choose from.
Ladies Who
Mary K who has contributed some great articles for us this year also runs Ladies Who League and Ladies Who Legspin. Check out the range of merch available.
Memberships
Why not go and support your favourite team or local club with a membership? By signing up you not only get the feel goods from supporting your team, they usually have some sweet merch in the member pack so you can show off which team you support at that end of year work party.
International Merch and Friends
Burn It All Down
Our friends at the BIAD podcast have an amazing variety of merchandise that all goes towards supporting the production of their podcast.
Breaking T
A US based site with amazing merchandise that responds to key sporting moments on and off the field to give fans a way to show their fan allegiances and also their passion for social justice campaigns.
Siren Merch
Grab the limited edition ‘Women’s Sport To The Front’ Siren badge for only $10! All proceeds go to fund our Emerging Sport Writers Program!
Our badge sets are also still available, to publicly share your love for women’s sport!
