Rugby Club Membership Card Printing
CP Cards have been supplying Rugby Club membership cards to UK clubs and organisations for over 30 years.
Every card is printed here in England, no overseas production and delays.
Orders start from just 25 cards, free delivery is included as standard, and we'll email you a photorealistic proof before anything goes to print.
Rugby clubs commonly use membership cards for matchday and clubhouse access, particularly clubs with a bar or social area reserved for members and their guests. Age-grade sections typically issue cards to players and to a registered parent or guardian, reflecting the safeguarding requirements common in junior rugby. Cards are also frequently used at the bar for member drink and food pricing on match days and training nights.
About our Plastic Rugby Club Membership Cards
Example Rugby Club Membership Card Prices 760 microns thick
| Quantity | Price from |
|---|---|
| 25 | £75.00 |
| 50 | £79.00 |
| 100 | £85.00 |
| 200 | £99.00 | 250 | £109.00 |
| 500Popular | £175.00 |
| 1000 | £245.00 |
Prices include free UK delivery & for one design to be printed from your print ready artwork sent to the correct specifications, see our artwork guide.
Prices exclude VAT & optional extras.
Need a different quantity? Contact us for a quote.
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Rugby Club Membership Cards printed
For most rugby clubs the bar funds the rest of the club, which makes the membership card a piece of commercial infrastructure as much as an identity document. Getting member pricing to work automatically is usually the highest-value thing it does.
Solid PVC, full colour on both sides, free delivery within Great Britain, from 25 cards, with colour variants per section at no extra cost.
There are rugby club membership card examples below, and full specifications on our membership card printing page.
What Rugby Clubs Print on a Membership Card
Club name and crest, the member’s name, a membership number and their category go on the front, together with the season — September to May, so it is worth printing as “2026/27” rather than a single year. Categories in rugby run wide: senior playing, age grade, minis, social, vice-president and life member are all common in one club.
Age-grade sections work slightly differently from the rest. Clubs generally issue a card to the player and register a parent or guardian against it, reflecting the safeguarding arrangements youth rugby expects, and print the age group prominently because it changes every season and gets checked constantly.
The reverse earns its keep with clubhouse hours, member bar pricing terms, the ground address and how to find the fixture list. For a great many rugby clubs the bar is what funds the rest, so making the member benefit obvious on the card is doing a job, not just filling space.
Mud, Matchdays and Cold Wet Hands
There is no politer way to put it: rugby is the muddiest membership card environment there is. A card is handed across a clubhouse doorway by someone who has spent eighty minutes on a January pitch, and it spends the rest of the week in a bag with boots that were not cleaned.
Our rugby club cards are 760-micron solid PVC — the same thickness and rigidity as a bank card — with the design sealed beneath the surface rather than printed on top. Mud wipes off. Rain does nothing. Studs in the same bag will not scratch through to the print.
The rigidity matters more than it sounds, too. At a busy bar on a Saturday afternoon, a stiff card is picked up, read and handed back in one movement, where a soft one has to be peeled off the counter first.
Extras That Suit Rugby Clubs
A barcode at the bar till is the change most clubs notice immediately. It moves member pricing from something the volunteer behind the bar has to remember to something the till applies on its own. Code39 is the most widely supported format; Code128 and EAN5 are also available, and your till provider will know which they read.
Colour coding by section — seniors, each age grade, minis, social, VP — costs nothing, since both sides print in full colour as standard, and gives whoever is on the door the information they need without reading a word.
Vice-presidents and life members are where most clubs choose to do something different. Metallic foiling applies foil under heat and pressure so that one element, usually the club crest, stands out from everything around it. It needs simple line art to work — clean solid shapes, since foil lays down as flat solid colour and will not reproduce gradients or photographs — but a foiled crest is a card people keep in their wallet rather than a drawer.
For matchday, a 5mm punched hole lets stewards, first aiders and committee wear their cards on a lanyard where spectators can see who is who.
Rugby Club Membership Card Examples
The rugby club cards below lean heavily on the
crest and on the season, and most of them give the reverse over to clubhouse hours
and member bar terms rather than to playing information.
That is the right emphasis for most clubs. Have a look at how vice-presidents are
treated too. Send us your crest and we will build the same priorities in.
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Rugby quotes follow the section count — seniors, age grades, minis, social,
vice-presidents, life members — plus whether the bar till needs to read the
card.
Send numbers by section and say whether you want a barcode. The barcode format needs
confirming with your till provider, which is a two-minute call that saves a reprint.
Quotes emailed within 10 minutes,
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Design Service
Crest on the shirts, nothing on file?
Very common. Our Design Service
sorts it for just £29 +vat
Send a photograph of a shirt or a clubhouse sign. We will redraw the crest, build a
card that runs across every section as colour variants, and get the clubhouse hours
and bar terms onto the reverse where they will actually get read.
Nothing prints without your approval.
Artwork Fixing Service
Rugby crests tend to be detailed — heraldry, mottos, county emblems —
and the copy a club has is often lifted from a shirt photograph or a scanned
programme.
Redrawing that so it holds up at 25mm across is exactly what our artwork fixing
service is for, at just £10 +vat, alongside sizing, bleed and
colour corrections.
Free Photorealistic Email Proof
To give you complete confidence before we go to print, we’ll email you a
free, high-quality, computer-generated photorealistic proof of your full colour plastic Rugby Club membership cards.
This realistic mock-up shows how your finished Rugby Club membership cards will look, so you can check and approve the layout, text and overall design before production begins.
Fast Production Time
Rugby runs September to May, and cards want to be issued for the start of the season
— which for most clubs means ordering in July or August while pre-season is
running.
Production is 7 working days from proof
approval, with a 4 working day express option.
Get the proof approved in July. August is when every club in the country is doing
the same thing.
Free Delivery
FREE DELIVERY within Great Britain on any
quantity.
Rugby clubs usually have a clubhouse and often someone around during pre-season, but
July can be quiet. Most orders go to the secretary at home.
Where the minis and juniors section is run separately — which it nearly always
is — tell us and we will box each section so it can be handed straight over.
Plain, unbranded packaging throughout.
Made in England
Rugby clubs keep cards in circulation for years, because life members and
vice-presidents do not reissue annually the way playing members do.
That makes consistency across runs genuinely
practical rather than cosmetic: a card printed six years ago and one printed last
month are both being shown at the same bar. Same press, same stock, every time.
We hold your artwork indefinitely for reorders.
100% Recyclable
Age-grade sections roll over every season and playing membership turns over steadily,
so a club of any size is replacing a good number of cards annually.
Ours are solid PVC and recycle through
standard household and commercial facilities,
which laminated cards cannot.
Biodegradable cards print identically if
your club has an environmental policy to answer to.
Optional Extras
Two extras do disproportionate work at a rugby club.
A barcode at the bar till moves member pricing from something a
volunteer has to remember to something the system applies — which on a busy
Saturday is worth real money. And metallic foiling on the crest
gives vice-presidents and life members a card that visibly recognises what they put
in; foil needs simple line art, as it lays down flat.
QR codes and numbering are available too.
Our vast range of optional extras combined with our competitive prices and fast, friendly service makes us a market leader which keeps our customers returning time after time as well as recommending us.
The majority of cards that we print have a signature strip and also a unique number which is usually sequential however you can supply an Excel document and we can print the details from the document onto the cards so each one has unique details. For example, their name, membership number, expiry date, level of membership etc.
Membership Card Specifications
760-micron solid PVC,
Full Colour (CMYK)
on both sides at no extra cost, design
sealed beneath the surface so mud wipes off and
studs cannot scratch through.
The rigidity is worth noting too: a stiff card is picked up, read and handed back in
one motion at a busy bar, where a soft one has to be peeled off the counter.
Gloss or
matt, same price.
Bureau Personalisation Service
Minis and juniors arrive all season, and social members often join after a good
result rather than in August.
Our Bureau Personalisation Service stops that
meaning constant small reorders. We hold your printed stock; you email new names and
we print and post the cards
within 3 working days.
The August run covers the bulk of the club; this covers everyone who turns up after
it.
A Plastic Card to Approve
Get one card per section printed and look at them in the clubhouse, at the bar, in
the evening.
That is where the card is used and it is nothing like a desk under daylight. Six
section colours that separate cleanly on a screen can merge under clubhouse
lighting, and the person who suffers is the volunteer on the door.
We will print a set from your artwork and post them.
Artwork Specifications & Guides
Two guide points that matter for a rugby card.
Season, not year. Print 2026/27. Rugby runs September to May and a
single calendar year gets questioned every January.
Bar terms in readable type. If member pricing is on the card it needs
to be legible across a counter, not set at 5pt to fit alongside everything else.
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How to Order your Membership Cards
The club secretary or membership secretary, usually in July, often alongside
sorting out the fixture list.
Send the crest, section numbers and whether you want a bar barcode. Approve the proof
we email back and the cards arrive for the first game. We keep the artwork, so next
July is a single email with the new season on it.
Rugby Clubs Membership card examples
Do you see a design that you like?
A rugby card below close to your club?
Tell us which and we will start from it.
Clubs generally keep the arrangement — crest placement, section colour coding,
how the bar terms sit on the reverse — and change the crest, colours and
section names. All part of the
Design Service.
Rugby Club Membership Card FAQs
Can rugby club cards be used for matchday and clubhouse access?
Yes. Membership category and season are printed prominently so the door can be checked by eye, and a barcode or magnetic strip can be added if you have an access system.
Can age-grade section cards include a registered parent or guardian?
Yes. The guardian's name and number can be printed on the reverse, and the age group is usually set prominently on the front since it changes every season and gets checked constantly.
Can the card be used for member pricing at the bar?
Yes. A barcode ties the card to your till so member pricing is applied automatically rather than depending on who is serving. We print Code39, Code128 and EAN5.
What's the minimum order?
25 cards, which covers a single age grade or a batch of VP cards without ordering for the whole club at once.
Can vice-president and life member cards be made distinctive?
Yes. Metallic foiling on the club crest is the usual choice. It needs simple line art, since foil lays down as flat solid colour and will not reproduce gradients or photographs.
Should the season be printed as 2026 or 2026/27?
2026/27. Rugby runs September to May, and a single calendar year on the card prompts members to ask mid-season whether it has expired.
Can stewards and first aiders wear cards on a lanyard?
Yes. We punch a 5mm hole 6mm in from the edge or a 15mm x 3mm slot, so matchday staff are identifiable to spectators without producing a card each time.
Will the cards survive rugby kit bags?
Yes. They are 760-micron solid PVC with the design sealed beneath the surface, so mud wipes off and studs in the same bag will not scratch through to the print.