Sports award certificate maker

Printable sports award certificates for sports day, a season or a tournament. The wording is filled in below: add each event or result, paste the names, print.

Sports award certificate templates

Eight of the 24 designs, with this certificate's wording. Choose one to use it in the maker below; every design takes your list of names, your logo and signatures.

3 certificates A4 landscape · Heritage gold

Print at 100% scale, margins None.

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1Wording

Occasion Organisation optional Certificate title Line before the name Award or reason used when a name has none of its own

2Recipients 3

One per line. Add a tab, “|” or comma, then a personal award line.

Pasted from a spreadsheet? Column A = name, column B = award. A first row of column titles (Name, First name / Last name, Award) is read and skipped.

Import names from CSVor a .txt list, read on this device

Remember names on this device

3Design and paper

Heritage gold · A4 · Landscape

Design

Paper Orientation

Add school or team logo

Images stay in your browser. PNG, JPG, WebP (or SVG for the logo), under 2 MB.

4Date and signatures

Today · Ms. Rivera

Date empty hides it Date style

Number each certificate

Signer 1 name Role

Add signature image

Signer 2 name optional Role

Add signature image

Example wording — replace it with yours

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Sports awards you can make

Sports day: winners of each race and a certificate for everyone who competed.
End of season: player of the season, most improved, coaches' award, best teammate.
Tournaments and galas: placings, personal bests and team awards.

What to put on it

The event and the result: “1st place – 100 m sprint”, “Personal best – 50 m backstroke”.
The competition or season, such as “Sports Day 2026” or “U12 season 2025–26”.
The club or school logo and the coach's or PE teacher's signature.

Sports award wording examples

Sports dayCongratulations to · Name · 1st place – 100 m sprint, Sports Day 2026
Most improvedAwarded to · Name · Most Improved Player, U12 season 2025–26
Player of the seasonPresented to · Name · Player of the Season – for 14 goals and endless energy
SportsmanshipAwarded to · Name · for outstanding sportsmanship and encouraging every teammate
Personal bestWell done · Name · for a personal best in the 50 m backstroke
TeamCongratulations to · Name · member of the winning relay team, District Championships

A different event for each athlete

Paste results straight from your scoring sheet: name in the first column, event and placing in the second. Or type Sam Lee | 1st place – long jump for each line. Everyone without a result line gets the general sports wording.

More wording, whole lists and printing

The wording guide has 13 more sports award wording examples, each with a link that fills it in here. To make one for every name on a class, team or staff list, see how to make certificates in bulk from Excel or Google Sheets. For the last week of the school year there is also an end-of-year awards list with an award for every child. Before printing on card, read how to print certificates for paper weights and print settings.

Frequently asked questions

Can every child have a different event on their certificate?

Yes. Put the event or result after the child's name with a tab, “|” or comma, or paste two columns from a spreadsheet.

Can I give a participation certificate to everyone and awards to winners?

Yes, in one batch: winners get their result as a personal line, everyone else gets the general line. Or use the certificate of participation template for a separate batch.

Can I add the club badge?

Yes. Add it as the logo under Design and paper; it prints at the top of every certificate.

Can I number the awards?

Yes. Tick Number each certificate and set a prefix such as SD26- so you can keep a record of who received which award.

All 17 are on the certificate templates page, grouped by occasion, in 24 designs.