Football Towels

Show Your Colours With Football Towels

Available in many sizes, and proudly emblazoned with the name and colours of just about any British football club you can think of, football towels are very popular. Whether you want to lie on the sand with a Leicester City beach towel or dry yourself wrapped in a Sheffield United towel after a bath, the choice is yours. If you’re looking for a football towel, eBay is a great place to browse and find exactly the football towel you want.

Football towels are usually advertised as beach towels, bath towels, or simply just towels. The exact dimensions will be included somewhere, too, though. So always check for those to know the size and shape of the towel or towels that you like the look of. The thickness of the towel is important, too. Thicker towels dry you quicker, and they’re also more luxuriant and comforting. Towels that are too thin are flimsy, harsh, and more easily damaged. In order to know the thickness of a towel, look for the GSM (grams per square metre) figure. It means the weight in grams of one square metre of the towel. The higher the number, the thicker the towel, or the denser the material.

The materials are chosen by the manufacturers to give the towels the qualities they want them to have. The fabrics include:

• Cotton: Cotton football towels are soft, warm, absorb water readily, and are hypoallergenic, so using them presents no problem to those with allergic reactions to certain fibres.
• Microfibre: This synthetic fibre is produced to absorb water quickly and dry you sooner.
• Polyester blend: No material is perfect so manufacturers often produce blended fabrics of cotton, microfibre, polyester and others fabrics in various ratios to emphasise the properties they want, such as durability, water absorption, and colour fastness of the print.

There are ready-made football towels you can buy immediately, but many factories also offer to manufacture each shirt individually according to your order. This involves a wait of up to eight weeks but offers the chance to include your name or a slogan of your choice next to the name of your cherished club.

You can machine wash football towels in a warm-water cycle with colour-safe bleach. For drying, you can use low to medium heat tumble drying or else air dry them, but avoid long exposure to strong, direct sunlight to prevent colour fading.