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Sports goods from Sialkot

Sialkot is famous for footballs, including hand-stitched and thermo-bonded match balls, as well as cricket bats and gear, hockey sticks, boxing gloves and martial-arts equipment.

Typical products

  • Match, training and promotional footballs
  • Cricket bats, balls, pads and gloves
  • Hockey sticks and balls
  • Boxing gloves, bags and pads
  • Martial-arts uniforms and protective gear
  • Rugby, volleyball and handballs

Certifications to ask for

  • FIFA Quality / FIFA Quality Pro (for match balls)
  • Social compliance audits (e.g. BSCI / amfori, Sedex/SMETA)
  • Child-labour-free supply chain declarations

Questions buyers ask

  • Which FIFA Quality programme level do your balls hold, and in whose name?
  • Hand-stitched, machine-stitched or thermo-bonded?
  • Which social compliance audit do you hold, and when was the last one?

Sialkot produces an estimated 40 million footballs a year; footballs worth about $155 million were exported between July 2025 and January 2026.

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