Photo booth experience for sports events, club awards, school sports days, corporate and weddings — Surrey, London and UK-wide
Guests step up to the booth, pick a sport on the touchscreen, type their name, and pose for the camera. The system drops their photo into a sports trading card template — football, hockey, basketball, baseball, American football and more — and a printed card lands in seconds. Digital copies (photo plus the finished card) share straight to phones via QR, email, SMS or AirDrop, and the whole event uploads to a branded online gallery delivered to the host afterwards.
Trading cards beat photo strips because they LOOK like keepsakes — sized like real collectables, framed like real player cards, with the guest's name printed on the front and a stat line that makes them feel like the cover athlete. Guests swap them between tables, pose holding their card for selfies, and take them home as something to keep on the shelf rather than the bin.
The Custom Sports Trading Card Experience runs as a software experience on top of standard Surrey FaceBooth hardware — pair it with the Selfie Pod, Retro Pod, Vintage Photo Booth, Digital Photo Booth or any of the other supported pods at quote stage. We deliver, set up, test and pack down; hires run attended or unattended, your choice at booking, and there's always a team member in the area for the duration of every hire.
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A software experience that turns each guest's photo into a personalised sports trading card print. Guests pick a sport on the touchscreen, type their name, pose for the camera, and the system composites their photo into a trading-card template — front carries the photo, name, jersey number and team line; back carries a stats grid and a short bio paragraph. A printed card lands in seconds, digital copies share to phones, and the whole event uploads to a branded online gallery delivered after the event.
It's a software experience, so you pair it with one of our supported host booths at booking. The full list: Selfie Pod, Retro Pod, Vintage Photo Booth, Digital Photo Booth, Inflatable Photo Booth, Party Booth, Selfie Ring, Ring Roamer, Kids Selfie Pod and Selfie Post Box. Flag your preferred booth at quote stage — we'll recommend the best fit if you're not sure.
Any sport, any player. The five most-booked templates are soccer/football, ice hockey, basketball, American football and baseball — and we build custom templates per event on request, so rugby, cricket, netball, motorsport, golf, tennis, boxing, MMA, athletics, esports and anything else you'd want to see on a card all work. Tell us the sport at booking and we design the template around it.
We build the card layout around your event before the day — sport, team-style colours, team-line text (e.g. "JUMP SHOT LEGENDS", "BASEBALL RANGERS", your club name, the event name), jersey-number style, stat-grid labels and any sponsor or club logo. You see the template preview before the event so there are no surprises on the day. Send brand or club artwork at booking and we'll factor it in.
Yes — branded card designs are standard. For corporate events we work with sponsor logos, campaign colours, and custom slogans on the card front. For schools, sports clubs and teams the club crest, kit colours and team name go on every card. For wedding and party events we can use the couple's surname, the event name, or the host's chosen branding.
Per guest at the booth — the guest's photo, the guest's name, and the sport choice (when multiple sports are loaded). Per event at booking — the template look, team-line text, jersey number style, stat-grid labels and any sponsor or club branding. Stat values themselves are fixed by the template rather than entered live, which keeps queue times moving and lets us pre-tune the card so it lays out cleanly every time.
Trading-card sized prints (around 63mm × 88mm) on heavy thermal photo card — front and back printed. The front carries the photo, the guest's name, jersey number and team line; the back carries the stats grid and a short bio paragraph. The card is sized to feel like a real collectable rather than a photo-booth strip.
Both — a printed sports trading card lands in seconds for each guest to take home, and a digital copy of the finished card (plus the raw photo) shares straight to their phone via QR code, email, SMS or AirDrop from the booth. After the event the host gets a branded online gallery of every shot from the night.
Sleeves are a discussed-at-quote add-on — we can pair the cards with either plastic protective sleeves or rigid acrylic display cases (the graded-card look in some of the photos), depending on the event tier and budget. Bare cards out of the printer are the default; tell us the look you're after at quote stage and we'll fold it into the price.
The print itself is the keepsake. Photo strips end up on a fridge or in a drawer; trading cards get kept on shelves and swapped between guests at the event. Cards are sized like real collectables, framed like real player cards, with names printed across the front and stats printed across the back. Guests pose holding the card for selfies, and the design gives the night a "trading-card season" feel that a strip can't.
Sports presentations, club awards nights, school sports days and PTA fundraisers, football and rugby tournament socials, fantasy-league launch events, boxing and MMA undercards, esports launches, fan zones, corporate kick-offs with a competitive theme, brand activations with a sports tie-in, milestone birthdays for a sports-mad host, and weddings where the couple want a sport-themed entertainment hook (football grooms, cricket-mad families, hockey teams).
Around 1.5m × 2m total for the typical pod-style host booths — booth footprint plus room for guests to pose in front. Each host booth has slightly different requirements, so we'll confirm exact specs once you've picked the booth at quote stage. Fits hotel function rooms, marquees, school halls, club houses and corporate event spaces without rearranging the venue.
50–500+ guests over a typical hire, depending on session length and how busy the queue gets. The print cycle for a trading card is a few seconds, so throughput is roughly the same as a standard photo print. For high-volume events (school proms, corporate kick-offs, big tournaments) attended hires keep the queue moving fastest.
Yes — the same hardware runs the rest of the Surrey FaceBooth experience library. Pair sports trading cards as the headline experience with the AI Photo Booth or Kardashian Glam Booth as alternates, so guests can come back to the booth multiple times and get a different keepsake each visit. Tell us the mix at booking.
Pricing depends on the host booth, event type, distance from our Surrey base, hire duration, custom-template design work, and any add-ons (sleeves, custom backdrops, sponsor logos). Use the instant quote builder to get a tailored figure in under a minute — drop in your event date, postcode, guest count and the sport theme and we'll come back with a price.
As early as you can — peak Saturday dates, end-of-season club presentation evenings and December corporate-party dates book out furthest ahead. Custom-template design work ideally wants 2–3 weeks of lead time so we can preview and sign-off before the event. Weekday and off-peak dates are often available with shorter notice. Send your date and postcode through the instant quote and we'll confirm availability.
Turn every guest into the cover athlete on their own personalised sports trading card. The Custom Sports Trading Card Experience is a software experience that runs on standard Surrey FaceBooth hardware — pair it with the Selfie Pod, Retro Pod, Vintage Photo Booth, Digital Photo Booth or any of our other supported pods, and it prints a trading-card-sized keepsake (around 63mm × 88mm) for every guest who steps up. Front of the card carries the photo, guest name, jersey number and team line; back of the card carries a stats grid and a short bio paragraph that reads like a real player commentary panel.
We deliver, set up, test and pack down. Hires run attended or unattended — your choice at booking; either way a team member is in the area for the duration of every hire. Indoor, or covered outdoor on a solid level surface. Booked across Surrey, London, Kent and UK-wide.
Photo strips end up on a fridge or in a bin. Trading cards get kept. The whole experience is designed around the keepsake — sized like a real collectable, framed like a real player card, with the guest's name across the front and a stats grid across the back. At sports presentations and club awards nights guests swap them between tables; at corporate kick-offs sponsor logos and stat lines double as a talking point; at weddings with a sport-mad host the couple's surname becomes the team line. The card itself is the souvenir, not the QR code.
It's a software experience, so it pairs with whichever Surrey FaceBooth host booth suits your event venue and aesthetic. You pick the host booth at booking — the experience layers on top:
Tell us your venue and the look you're after at quote stage — we'll recommend the host booth that suits the brief.
The five most-booked templates are loaded as standard:
We design custom templates per event on request, so any sport works — rugby, cricket, netball, motorsport, golf, tennis, boxing, MMA, athletics, swimming, cycling, esports, padel, pickleball, dance, cheerleading. Tell us the sport at booking and we'll design the template around it, with a preview before the event for sign-off.
The print is the point. Cards are sized to feel like real collectables, framed like real player cards, with names across the front and stats across the back. Guests pose holding their card for selfies, swap them between tables, and take them home as something to put on a shelf rather than in a bin. For corporate and brand events every share carries sponsor branding onto guests' phones; for sports clubs and schools the team crest gets onto every card in the room. It's the experience that gives a night its souvenir.
Get a quote — drop in your event date, location, guest count and sport theme, and we'll come back with pricing.
Same instant-print workflow as our standard photo booth experiences — guests don't wait. They step up, pick a sport, type their name, pose, and the card lands in the print tray seconds later. Front of the card carries the photo, name, jersey number and team line. Back of the card carries a stats grid (PAC / SHO / PAS / DRI / DEF / PHY-style attribute scores) and a short bio paragraph that reads like a real trading-card commentary panel.
Touchscreen offers a sport menu at the start of the session — soccer, ice hockey, basketball, American football, baseball, and any sport we've designed a template for ahead of the event. Guest types their name, picks their preferred template look (modern ultimate-team style, classic retro card, championship-tier), poses for the camera, and the system composites everything into a fully personalised card with their photo, jersey number, team line and stat values.
Surrey FaceBooth is a family-run team of photo-booth specialists operating from Esher (KT8). We started out covering Surrey weddings and birthdays — and now travel the length of the country for corporate events, brand activations and milestone parties.
We deliver, set up, run, and pack down ourselves — no third-party operators. Public-liability insurance is included on every booking, and every booth is PAT-tested annually.
Regular event areas: Surrey, London, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, the M25 corridor, and the NEC / ICC for corporate bookings. Other locations on request — just ask.
From weddings and birthdays to corporate events and festivals — we cover the lot.
Planning a great event is stressful enough without worrying about the entertainment. We handle delivery, setup, the lot — you tell us what you need, we make it happen.
Fill in our quick quote form and we'll send you tailored pricing for your event.
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