Sports websites fall into a few different categories: sport news, clubs, sportswear and personal websites of famous athletes. Sports club and news websites mostly contain loads of information. That makes it really hard to design clean and simple looking layouts. For a sportswear website, the main task is to find a persuasive way of presenting the products. And personal websites need to be designed in a way so it reveals his/her abilities and personality. But the largest and most complicated task for all of these sites is – to express the motion, spirit and power of the sport. So let’s take a close look at this collection to get inspired and see how the design challenges have been addressed.
Adidas
Eircom
FOX Sports
Hokey 2012
Football Price
Skate Shoes
BP Team USA
Dutch Golf Tricks
Gilba 7
Kalinowe Pola
Badminton Center
Rory McIlroy
Nike
The Colosseum
Philadelphia Eagles
Baltimore Ravens
Wellington Lions
Nike Soccer
KB24
NCAA
Bleacher Report
Puma Running
Usain Bold
Wilson
FIBA Europe
Manchester City
3×3 Planet
Pioneer Steez
SHO Sports
Alex Noren
Manchester City’s website is beautiful with their clean use of Helvetica 🙂
Nice sites.
I also like http://www.performancegoalkeeping.com
Great examples as always! Thank you.
Sports-related websites do seem to have a very definite style- bold colours and huge photos. Great examples, thanks.
I love the site by Man C… great colours!
Love the Adidas example shows a good balance between colour and shape
The Nike Football site is a very good example of an effective and clean design, with brilliant and sharp imagery. The Manchester City website is also very well visually constructed.