We are a small design studio based in Groningen. Founded on over 20 years of expertise in the fashion industry and a lifelong obsession with athletics, we create one of a kind hand decorated merchandise for sports teams and organizations throughout the Netherlands.

By working hand-in-hand with our clients, we provide expert creative direction to translate your vision into reality. Whether you come to us with a fully realized concept or a blank slate, we offer curated inspiration and design prototypes to ensure your assortment is nothing short of iconic.

1. Discovery and Strategy: Reach out to discuss your team’s vision. We’ll define your needs—whether it’s a one-time drop or an on-demand collection—and establish your delivery timeline.
2. Creative Collaboration: We review your existing graphics or create something new for you.
   (Vector files/.eps preferred; custom design services available)
3. Curation and Specification: Choose your assortment, colors, and textures. We’ll guide you through premium decoration techniques, ensuring optimal graphic placement and scale.
4. The Golden Sample: Before production, we provide a physical, hand-decorated sample(s) for your final approval. We don’t move forward until it’s perfect.
5. Digital Launch: Your collection is professionally photographed and hosted on your dedicated merxathletica.com team page.
6. Social Kick-off: We announce the launch across our social channels, driving your fans, friends, and family directly to your new custom storefront.

At MERX athletica, we decorate an assortment of various hard and soft goods. From t-shirt to sweaters and varsity jacket patches to wall pennants and rally bells to coffee cups. We are committed to using local and small businesses for all our products and components.

We have the ability to execute a wide variety or decoration from direct-to-film transfers to sublimation. During our design collaboration, we’ll advise on the best technical path to bring your graphics to life with professional-grade durability.

Partnering with MERX athletica eliminates the traditional burdens of team merch. There are no inventory commitments and no stock management. We charge a one-time, transparent design fee to cover our studio’s creative expertise and the setup of your custom collection. Beyond that, it’s a total win-win: we host your shop for free and donate a portion of every sale directly back to your team or organization.

At MERX athletica, your success is our success. Every piece of merchandise sold contributes to a dedicated fund for your organization. We keep things simple and transparent with quarterly payouts, turning your fans’ support into tangible resources for your team.

Yes! While most teams love the ease of our dedicated pages, we can definitely process one-time orders directly. Just keep in mind that our Give-Back donation model is exclusive to our hosted web shops and does not apply to these private orders.