Basketball team yearbook: one book for the team and the coach
A basketball team yearbook is your team's own book, what Germans call a Freundebuch, and the gift for your coach that has everyone in it: every player gets their own double-page spread with two photos and answers, and one question is just about the coach. A book costs €24.90 including design, printing and delivery, €22.90 from 3 teams in your club and €19.90 from 5 teams. It reaches you 5 to 7 working days after the last answers and payments.
The book, the questionnaire and our WhatsApp support are in German. Other languages and shipping to other countries on request.
What goes into a basketball team yearbook
Besides two photos and the answers, every double-page spread shows the name, the signature and four short details with icons. The questions are all about the hoop and the free-throw line:
- Where did you score your first basket?
- Lay-up or three-pointer: which suits you better?
- What's your routine at the free-throw line?
- Which shot are you still talking about?
- What have you learned from your coach?
We adapt the title and questions to your group. For children, the parents fill in the questionnaire, and photos and answers are only used for the book. Details under Children's photos and data protection.
What the whole team shares
Everyone appears together on the cover: the photos are cut out and combined into one picture, in front of a background of your choice or the stadium cover. Inside come the team photo, team awards such as “Rebound magnet” or “Shares every ball”, a double-page spread for the league table, a special moment and a special match, two double-page spreads for signatures and messages and at least 4 blank double-page spreads for family and friends. Up to 4 sponsor pages are included in the price, and the sponsor logos go on the back cover. The book is a landscape A5 hardcover on 170 g/m² paper that you can write on with a ballpoint pen.
From the link in the team chat to the finished book
Send the link wherever the team already sorts things out, such as the group chat for lifts to away games.
- An enquiry takes 2 minutes, then the link arrives via WhatsApp.
- You share it in the group. Each person needs about 5 minutes on their phone for the questions and uploads two photos. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday a WhatsApp overview shows you who is still missing.
- Once everyone has answered and every book is paid for, we design and print. The books arrive 5 to 7 working days later.
Basketball coach gifts: why a book from the team says more
After a few years, a basketball coach has plenty of mugs, towels and vouchers. What they don't have is a double page from every person they have coached since their first lay-up. That is exactly what this book gives them, with photos, answers and signatures.
And the book isn't only a gift for the coach. Everyone in the book can get their own copy, the coach included, so the whole team shares the same memory of the years you spent together.
Where the book fits into the basketball year
The season runs through the winter, and youth teams play in age groups such as under-12s or under-14s. These moments work well:
When you move up an age group. If your year group moves up and gets a new coach, the book becomes a leaving gift for the basketball coach who brought you this far. Ideas in our guide Coach leaving gift.
If the coach is staying. After the last game of the season, the book works as a thank you before the summer break. More under End-of-season gift for a coach.
After the first big tournament. When the little ones have spent a whole day playing in an unfamiliar sports hall for the first time, it becomes the special moment in the book.
At Christmas. Midway through the season, as a look back at the first half. Ideas under Christmas gifts for sports teams.
Small squad, full book: what does it cost?
You pay per book, and design, printing and delivery to Germany and Austria are included. The more teams from your club order together, the cheaper it gets.
- 1 to 2 teams
- €24.90
- from 3 teams
- €22.90
- from 5 teams
- €19.90
A book holds 8 to 42 people, and the minimum order is 10 books. In basketball only five players are on court, and some squads don't reach ten. So count everyone: coaches and team staff count, and a second team from your club can join the book. Not everyone in the book has to buy one. Each person pays via their own payment link, or one person pays for everyone by invoice within 14 days. Because every book is designed individually, cancellation is not possible.
Frequently asked questions about gifts for your basketball coach
Does the coach get their own double-page spread?
If you like, yes. They count as part of the group and fill in their page like everyone else. The team's pages can also include a question about them, as in the example above: “What I learned from our coach”.
Who pays for the coach's book?
The easiest way is to collect the money in the parents' group chat and have one person pay for the coach's copy via the payment link. If one person pays for everyone by invoice, the coach's book is simply included.
From what age does the book work?
From the very first training session to the women's or men's team. For children, the parents fill in the questionnaire, ideally together with their child: whoever scored that first basket knows best what it felt like.
What if we can't reach 10 books?
Then bring a second team from your club into the book, such as the next age group. Coaches and team staff count too.
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