The AI revolution in clubs

AI is reshaping sports content by enhancing creativity, streamlining workflows, and enabling fan-driven design. Examples from PSG, Manchester City, and Liverpool show how clubs use AI to elevate visuals, boost engagement, and expand creative possibilities without replacing designers.

Sports Content Playbook Team

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Artificial Intelligence has officially entered the design studio of sports. What started as an experimental trend has now become a creative standard: clubs and brands using AI tools to design graphics, reimagine jerseys, or transform match moments into cinematic art.

 

This week, we explore how AI-generated visuals are reshaping sports content — not to replace designers, but to push creativity beyond human limits.

Top 3 real AI sports content examples

1.- Paris Saint-Germain – “AI-Generated Kit Launch Campaign” (2024/25 Season)

When PSG unveiled their 2024/25 home kit, they partnered with creative agencies that used text-to-image AI to build surreal, futuristic visuals of Paris fused with the club’s brand identity. The campaign’s artwork was fully AI-assisted using Midjourney and Runway.

 

4.5M views across platforms in 48 hours.

Why it worked: The AI-enhanced visuals gave the launch a “cinematic luxury” aesthetic consistent with PSG’s image — global, elegant, and tech-forward.

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2.- Paris Saint-Germain – “AI-Generated Kit Launch Campaign” (2024/25 Season)

In late 2024, Manchester City launched a campaign allowing fans to co-create the design of their potential 2026/27 kit using AI tools. Through an online portal built with Adobe Firefly and PUMA’s AI Studio, users could describe ideas in text — “retro 90s pattern,” “gold skyline texture,” “eco-futuristic tone” — and the AI instantly generated design proposals

 

250,000 submissions in the first week.

Why it worked: It made fans part of the creative process, turning kit design into a digital co-creation experience.

3.-Liverpool FC — “AI-Powered Graphic Library for Social Media” 

Liverpool’s media department adopted an internal AI system to automatically tag and organize thousands of matchday photos and videos. Beyond efficiency, they now use the same model to auto-generate on-brand social graphics — from match stats to quote cards — based on real-time data feeds.

 

60% faster content turnaround on matchdays.

Why it worked: AI allowed designers to focus on storytelling while automation handled layout, typography, and color consistency.

Tip of the Week

AI won’t replace your design team — but your team should learn to use it.

 

Here are three tools every club should test this season:

  • Adobe Firefly — perfect for branded templates and controlled generative visuals.
  • Runway ML — turn static photos into moving graphics for Reels and Shorts.
  • Kaiber — create matchday animation sequences with just a prompt.

 

Use AI not to copy others, but to build your own creative language.

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