Ways to Decorate a Football Locker Room

Football locker room decoration is an important element of team preparation. Decorative items in the locker room can be used to inspire and fire up your players before they enter the gridiron, while there are also tactical advantages to a well-equipped facility.

  1. Motivational

    • Fill your locker room walls with motivational posters, banners, flags, pennants, scarves, t-shirts and anything you can get your hands on that carries your football team's colors and logos. If your team or college has a motto, print this up large on a banner or spray paint onto a length of cloth using stencils and hang this somewhere prominent. Your players might also take inspiration from posters of historic sports people, such as the famous photograph of Muhammad Ali after he knocked down Sonny Liston in 1965.

    Tactical

    • Football is a game based in tactics. While you will be able to disseminate your looks and plays through your words, you should also have an area in the locker room dedicated to setting up routes and plays. Invest in a dry erase whiteboard area separate from any other decorations you have, where you can gather your defense, offense or special teams around and talk them through plays. Keep the board on wheels and move in and out or fix to the wall.

    Opposition Specific

    • The gridiron is packed with one-on-one confrontations. Use this as inspiration for your locker room decoration. Designate each player in your squad a set spot, usually with a hook and hanger for their kit, and post up information about their specific opponent beneath their hook. Give your D-line information about the opposition O-line, for example, while you should familiarize your quarterback with the opponent's defensive outlooks. Highlight the specific weaknesses of opposition players, such as their height if they are short, or their weight if they are lightweight.

    Warm-Up Equipment

    • Provide your footballers equipment to help them warm up, such as resistance bands used for stretching muscles. Depending on your budget, you may also be able to invest in a treadmill, cross-trainer or cycling machine --- make sure your players do not overdo their warm-ups, and that they are conserving energy for the match. It's also useful for your footballers, and, particularly, your centers, quarterbacks, special teams and receivers to get their hands on a ball in the locker room. Purchase a ball stand or rack and stock it with plenty of footballs, but remind your players they can only use the balls when given permission by a member of the coaching staff.