Professional Logo Design for SportsFixtures.net

• Status: Pending
• Prize: $30
• Entries Received: 544

Contest Brief

SportsFixtures.net Logo Design Contest
Creative Brief: Premium Vector Brand Package
Brand Vision

SportsFixtures.net is being built as a high-energy sports platform for fans, venues, bars, pubs, and businesses that need fast, reliable access to sports fixtures, results, TV schedules, and live sports information.

The logo should feel like a premium sports media badge: bold, energetic, modern, memorable, and instantly connected to sport.

This is not a soft corporate logo.
This is not a generic sports icon.
This should feel like a powerful sports brand that belongs on a website header, app icon, venue screen, social profile, digital poster, and advertising package.

Think:

Live sport energy
Fixture-day excitement
Stadium lights
Scoreboard impact
Sports media quality
Premium badge design
Strong readability
Big brand confidence

The attached image is the approved concept direction. Your job is to transform it into a clean, professional, production-ready vector brand package.

Core Creative Direction

The current concept has the right energy: a bold circular sports badge, multiple sports objects, bright green accents, strong white text, and a premium high-impact feel.

The final logo should preserve that spirit while improving the execution.

The finished design should feel:

Premium
High-energy
Sharp
Sport-focused
Modern
Legible
Commercially usable
Scalable
Clean enough for professional branding

The design should not feel cheap, childish, messy, flat, generic, or like an auto-traced AI image.

Important Reference Note

The attached visual guideline is provided as a general creative and structural reference. It explains the intended objects, colours, layering, typography direction, and key correction points. The approved source image remains the primary visual reference, but the written guide should help you understand what the design is trying to achieve.

Where the written guideline and source image conflict, follow the source image visually, except for specific correction rules around text layering and object identification.

The Main Challenge

The challenge is to take a complex AI-generated sports badge and rebuild it properly as a professional vector logo.

That means:

Manually redrawing the artwork
Cleaning up soft AI edges
Improving text sharpness
Fixing messy object overlaps
Making the badge scalable
Keeping the same high-energy sports composition
Making it usable across real brand situations

This is not a redesign from scratch.
This is a faithful professional rebuild and refinement.

You may simplify minor clutter if needed, but the finished design must still clearly feel like the approved SportsFixtures.net badge.

Required Visual Elements

The logo should retain the core sports identity from the reference concept, including:

Central soccer ball
Basketball
American football
Baseball
Calendar / fixtures reference
Trophy / winner energy
Baseball-style bat
Golf club
Golf balls
Red cricket-style balls
Bright lime/neon green sports glow
Strong circular badge structure
SPORTS FIXTURES.net wordmark

The design should communicate that SportsFixtures.net covers many sports, not just football.

Typography Direction

The text must be one of the strongest parts of the logo.

The words SPORTS FIXTURES.net should feel bold, sharp, athletic, and easy to read.

SPORTS

This should be the dominant word.

It should feel:

Big
White/off-white
Bold
Athletic
Slightly forward-moving
Strong enough to read at small sizes
FIXTURES

This should sit below SPORTS and use the bright lime-green brand energy.

It should feel connected to schedules, listings, results, and live sport.

.net

This must remain visible and readable. Do not let it disappear into the golf club, background, or glow effects.

Important: all text should sit clearly in front of the sports equipment, not hidden behind it.

Colour Direction

The brand direction is green-led and energetic.

Use colours close to the source image:

Deep dark green
Forest green
Bright lime green
Neon green glow accents
White/off-white text
Orange/brown sports ball tones
Red cricket/baseball tones
Silver/grey golf club details

Do not shift the brand into blue, red, purple, or dull grey.
The logo should remain clearly connected to the green SportsFixtures.net identity.

The green should feel premium and electric, not cheap fluorescent. - think grass

Style Direction

The final look should be:

Glossy but controlled
Detailed but not cluttered
Bold but not cartoonish
Premium but still exciting
Modern but still recognisable as a sports badge

Avoid:

Flat clipart
Generic stock icons
Over-simplified icons
Messy AI tracing
Blurry gradients
Weak typography
Poor spacing
Unbalanced object placement
Too much detail that fails at small size
Required Logo Versions

The winning designer must create three layouts.

Layout A — Primary Circular Badge

This is the main logo.

It should closely refine the attached circular concept and preserve the full sports-badge feel.

Use cases:

Social media profiles
Website branding
App-style placements
Posters
Venue displays
Brand assets
Layout B — Horizontal Website Header Logo

This should use the same brand identity but be rearranged for a website navigation bar.

It should work cleanly in a horizontal space.

Use cases:

Desktop website header
Mobile header
Email footer
Partner banners
Digital adverts

This version should not simply squash the circular logo. It should be thoughtfully adapted.

Layout C — Favicon / App Icon

This should be a simplified mark that remains clear at very small sizes.

Possible directions:

Soccer ball with “SF”
Simplified circular SF badge
Calendar/sports icon
Strong “SF” sports mark

This version should be readable at:

16x16px
32x32px
64x64px
App icon sizes

The favicon does not need every sports object. It needs to be simple, memorable, and sharp.

Technical Requirements

This must be a proper production-ready vector package.

The final files must include:

Source Files
Fully layered .AI
.EPS
.SVG
PDF vector master if available
Raster Files
Transparent .PNG
Standard .JPG
High-resolution 300dpi versions
Web-optimised versions
Favicon Files
.ICO at 16x16px
.ICO at 32x32px
Transparent PNG favicon/app icon sizes
Colour Variations

For all main layouts:

Full colour
Grayscale
Monochrome black
Monochrome white/reversed
Dark background version
Light background version
Brand Data

Please provide:

HEX colour codes
RGB colour codes
CMYK colour codes
Font names
Font licence/source links
Editable text version where possible
Outlined text version for production use

Do not include paid font files unless you legally have the right to redistribute them.

Strict Rules

Submissions must be original and manually created.

Not allowed:

Auto-traced logos
AI-generated final artwork
Canva template logos
Stock logo templates
Copied sports icons
Copyrighted league/team marks
Reused portfolio logos
Generic badge templates with small edits

The winning designer must confirm that the final design is original and that full commercial usage rights transfer to SportsFixtures.net.

What Will Win

The winning design will be the one that best combines:

Faithful rebuild of the approved concept
Strong professional vector quality
Premium sports-brand energy
Excellent text readability
Clean object layering
Strong green/lime brand identity
Scalability from favicon to large print
Usable files and organised deliverables
Real commercial polish

The best entry will not simply copy the AI image.
It will understand the image, clean it, sharpen it, balance it, and turn it into a real brand asset.

Final Creative Goal

Create a logo that makes SportsFixtures.net look like a serious, premium sports platform.

It should feel exciting enough for sports fans, professional enough for venue owners, and strong enough to become the main identity across websites, apps, social media, posters, digital screens, and advertising products.

The final logo should say:


This is SportsFixtures.net.

Primary circular logo
Horizontal website/header logo
Favicon/app icon
Full colour version
Dark background version
Light background version
Black version
White/reversed version
Transparent PNGs
SVG, EPS, AI source files
Font names and licence links
HEX, RGB, CMYK colour codes
Clear-space guidance
Minimum size guidance
Basic do/don’t usage sheet

Recommended Skills

• Adobe Illustrator
• Branding
• Digital Design
• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• Logo Design
• Vector Design