Stadium & Arena Cups

Stadium cups solve three problems at once: glass-free safety, single-use plastic reduction, and matchday branding. Most major UK stadiums have now phased out single-use plastic pint cups on the concourse. Reusable stadium cups are the obvious replacement, they're shatterproof so they're safe in any seated bowl, they reduce the litter clean-up bill across the ground, and they turn every drink served into a piece of branded merchandise.

Our stadium cup range is dominated by full-colour IML pint cups. IML embeds the artwork directly into the cup wall during moulding, which means the print is part of the cup itself, it can't fade in sunlight, peel in the dishwasher, or scratch off when fans stack them on the concourse. There's no per-colour upcharge: you can run a full kit launch design, a sponsor's photographic campaign, or a multi-colour matchday commemorative all at the same standard branded price. We also produce single-colour screen-printed stadium cups for simpler club crests, and plain UKCA-marked stock for venues that want a generic reusable scheme.

For arenas, our stadium cup specification works equally well for music tours, comedy nights and corporate events. Arena pint cups need to survive being passed across a packed standing pit and stacked in tight back-of-house storage between events, exactly what our stackable rib design is built for. Pair the standard stadium pint with our two-pint cup for high-volume queue periods (interval rushes, end of show, half-time) and you can effectively halve the number of trips fans make to the bar without changing your bar staffing model.

Branded stadium cups are also a revenue-positive asset. A typical stadium-cup deposit scheme charges £2 to £3 per cup; fans either return the cup for the deposit back, or keep it as a souvenir. The retained cups continue to circulate in the local area carrying your club crest and sponsor logos every time a fan uses them at home, that's branding the club has already been paid for. The returned cups go through the wash and back into circulation, often surviving multiple seasons before being recycled into new product.

Lead times are designed around the football and rugby calendar. Standard branded stadium cups arrive in 10 working days; our Eco Saver tier delivers in 25 working days at the lowest unit price, most clubs order pre-season on this tier. Plain UKCA-marked stadium pints dispatch in 5 working days from our UK warehouse for in-season top-ups. Free UK mainland delivery is included on every order. For genuine same-week emergencies, our sister brand expresscups.co.uk handles sub-48-hour stock.

Every stadium cup is UKCA marked at the pint-to-line, which is the legal requirement for serving alcohol in licensed venues in Great Britain. The CE mark on the same fill line keeps the cup compliant for European fixtures and tours. The cup body is 100% recyclable polypropylene, BPA-free, dishwasher safe at commercial temperatures, and tested across hundreds of cycles before failure. If the cup is ever retired, it goes back into our recycling stream, closed-loop, UK-manufactured, end-to-end.