Sialkot stitches most of the footballs played on earth. Sublime is the house that opened that door — and has been building the ball the world plays with ever since.
In 1966, Professor Amin Javed of Murray College looked at a city of artisans and saw an industry. What he built turned hand-stitching into a standard, and turned "Made in Pakistan" into a mark the world's great sporting houses would come to ask for by name.
Every house that has trusted Sialkot with its ball has, at some point, come through this floor. Move along the rail.
It begins with a professor. Amin Javed taught at the historic Murray College in Sialkot, and in 1966 he set out to prove a conviction — that a football made in his city could stand beside anything made anywhere. He built Sublime on that single refusal: that a ball made here should ever be the second choice. Everything on this page descends from him.
Sublime began stitching and supplying World Cup footballs, and opened its long collaboration with Molten in the same year. The Tango — the ball a generation grew up with — carried Sialkot's hand-stitching to the centre of the world game. adidas would later set its gratitude in acrylic.
Reebok came to Sialkot, and to Sublime. The floor that had learned to build to one brand's exacting tolerance proved it could do it for another — and the city's reputation stopped being about price.
Every match of the 1998 World Cup in France was played with a ball built in Sialkot. Pakistan had no team at that tournament, but it was in every match — and printing Made in Pakistan on the ball itself was Sublime's own innovation: a quiet insistence that the country's craft be named where the whole world could read it. PIA's inflight magazine, Humsafar, ran the story that summer under the same three words.
A contract with Nike. By now the question was no longer whether Sialkot could make an elite ball, but who Sublime would make it for.
Umbro followed a year later — a house with its own long memory of the game, and its own view of what a ball should feel like off the boot.
The collaboration with Star opened the run that carries into the present — and into the research that would eventually produce SublimeWeld.
The Pakistan Sports Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association and the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce & Industry both set it down in writing: Sublime laid the foundations for professional soccer-ball manufacturing in Sialkot to international standard, and stands among the pioneers of the global soccer-ball revolution.
The hand-stitched seam was the last place a football could fail. SublimeWeld welds it shut — zero percent water uptake, and a ball that weighs the same in the ninetieth minute as it did in the first.
The reason global houses stayed is not romance. It is that the floor could be audited, and passed.
Sublime implemented the first UNLA-approved production facilities, developed in collaboration with the government and built to international guidelines.
Lean manufacturing and Environment, Health & Safety discipline run through the floor — a commitment carried from the top of the house.
Recognised in writing by PSGMEA and the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce & Industry as a pioneer of professional soccer-ball manufacturing.
EliteBall, Matchball and ClubBall are built to FIFA's Quality Pro, Quality and Basic criteria respectively.
Footballs and futsal across three quality standards, our own finned Street Ball, the wider ball cabinet — and a complete teamwear programme, down to the towel.
Five constructions, led by the exclusive SublimeWeld™ — stitched, then welded shut. EliteBall, Matchball, ClubBall.
Vulcanised rubber with raised fins that bite the ground and stop the ball running away.
Match day, tracksuits, hoodies, puffer jackets, polos, bags — plus water bottles and towels.
Handball, volleyball, American football and rugby, to international size and weight.
Every football dies at the seam — until now. SublimeWeld stitches the ball, then welds the seam shut over the thread, making it nearly impossible to tear. A ball measured in seasons, not matches — that also refuses to drink in the rain.
OEM, private label, brand or club — tell us the ball, the kit and the season, and we will build it.