SportGraphics vs Kickly · Updated 15 Sep 2026
The Kickly alternative for football clubs
SportGraphics is a Kickly alternative for football clubs: set your club up once (crest, colours, squad) and every matchday, lineup, goal and full-time graphic renders as an image or an animated MP4 in both 1:1 and 9:16, from $9 a month. Kickly is a multi-sport template library from $15 a month watermark-free, with 9:16 on its $19 Pro plan, as of September 2026.
| What matters on matchday | SportGraphics | Kickly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free (watermarked); Basic $9/mo or $90/yr; Pro $15/mo or $150/yr | Free (watermarked); Essentials $15/mo or $120/yr; Pro $19/mo or $180/yr; Team $49/mo or $35/mo billed annually |
| Story (9:16) graphics | Every design exports 1:1 (1080×1080) and 9:16 (1080×1920) — both sizes on every plan | Essentials is square 1:1 only; 9:16 sizes start on Pro ($19/mo) |
| Animated video | Built-in MP4 of every design from Basic ($9/mo) — no keyframes, no timeline | Image templates; no animated or MP4 export is listed on its pricing, features or help pages (Sep 2026) |
| Set-up-once club profile | Crest, colours, squad with photos and fixtures saved once; every matchday, starting XI, goal, sub and full-time design fills itself | Saved brand colour scheme applied to templates; names, photos and scores are edited into each template (Kickly’s own estimate: 2–4 minutes per graphic) |
| Template range | 20 matchday designs across 6 events, plus signing, recruitment and community posters on Pro | 700+ templates: announcements, scores, lineups, quotes, player stats, fixtures, transfers, standings, polls |
| Sports | Football/soccer only, by design | Football, basketball, rugby, cricket and more |
| Free plan | 1 player, 1 watermarked image export a month, two designs, no card | Watermarked, square only, up to 10 saved projects, no card |
Kickly facts and prices are as listed on kickly.net, kickly.net/pricing, kickly.net/features and help.kickly.net on 15 September 2026; features vary by plan. Kickly is a trademark of its owner — SportGraphics is not affiliated with Kickly.
The free plans, compared honestly
Kickly’s free plan is the more generous taster: no card, a few hundred templates to browse, up to 10 saved projects, watermarked and square-only. SportGraphics Free is deliberately narrow — 1 player, 1 watermarked image export a month, and only the Spotlight matchday and Player Impact goal designs — but it shows you your own crest, colours and a real player in a finished design, which is the thing you actually need to know before paying anyone. Neither free plan is a weekly workflow; the fair test is to run one fixture through both and post the graphic you would rather have.
When Kickly is the better choice
- A multi-sport club. If the same account posts for the rugby section and the cricket side as well as the football club, Kickly covers all of them; SportGraphics is football only.
- Variety of post types. Quote cards, polls, player stats, standings and transfer graphics across 700+ templates. SportGraphics covers the matchday moments and club posts, not the whole content calendar.
- You like editing each graphic. Kickly’s browser editor gives you every template as a starting point. If a new look every week is the fun part, that suits you better than designs that fill themselves.
- Three people on one plan. Kickly’s Team plan gives three members their own accounts; SportGraphics is one club account.
When SportGraphics is
- The weekly matchday cycle. Matchday board, starting XI, every goal, every sub, full time — the same five posts every week, filled from the squad you saved once, in under a minute each from a phone at the pitch.
- Video and stories without the upsell. Animated MP4s and 9:16 stories on every design from $9/mo — Kickly charges $19/mo before you get 9:16, and lists no MP4 at all.
- The squad does the work. A starting XI graphic built from the roster on a pitch map, scorer photos on goal posts, and on Pro the sponsor logos on every post — the promise your committee made to the shirt sponsor.
- A grassroots budget. $90 a year is inside the club’s software line. See the grassroots clubs page.
Start with the free matchday graphic template, compare plans and pricing, read the full football graphics apps ranking, or see how we compare with Canva and Gipper.
Switching questions, answered
For football clubs, yes. Kickly is a multi-sport template library you edit graphic by graphic, from $15/mo watermark-free. SportGraphics is a football-only matchday studio: set your club up once — crest, colours, squad, fixtures — and every matchday, starting XI, goal, substitution and full-time post renders as an image or an animated MP4 in both 1:1 and 9:16, from $9/mo. If you post the weekly matchday cycle, that is the job it replaces.
Kickly’s pricing page, features page and help centre describe image templates, sizes and saved projects; as of 15 September 2026 none of them lists animated or MP4 export, so ask Kickly directly if motion matters to you. SportGraphics includes an animated MP4 of every design from Basic ($9/mo), in both feed and story sizes.
SportGraphics Basic is $9/mo or $90/yr for every design, no watermark, 9:16 stories and animated MP4s, with 8 images + 8 videos every month; Pro is $15/mo or $150/yr with unlimited exports. Kickly’s watermark-free plans are $15/mo (Essentials, square only) or $19/mo (Pro, with 9:16) — $120 or $180 a year. On price alone SportGraphics Basic is cheapest; on time, a design that fills itself from your squad beats editing a template every Saturday.
Yes — there is nothing to migrate. Upload your crest (the colours are picked out of it), add the squad with photos, and the posts you made in Kickly render from your club profile instead: matchday, starting XI, goal, substitution and full time. Keep Kickly for anything it does that we don’t — quote cards, polls, a rugby section — while SportGraphics runs the weekly matchday cycle.