A gift idea for rugby players: a gift card for a sports shop they already use.
Boots come down to size, fit and stud type, and only the player knows what they need. With a gift card, a grassroots player can pick their own boots, gum shield or training kit, or save it for the January sales. Digital cards arrive by email, so it still works as a gift bought on 24 December.
Some numbers:
* Gift cards top the list of gifts US consumers want to receive, at 50%, ahead of clothing at 46% (October 2025).
* 23% of US adults have received a gift card for a store they didn’t like (August 2024).
* In the UK, JD Sports gift cards get about 15,100 Google searches a month, Sports Direct about 6,000 and Decathlon about 1,400.
* In the US, searches for Dick’s Sporting Goods gift cards reached 74,000 in December 2025, five times the 14,800 in July.
The survey figures are from our gift card statistics page: https://felix-day.com/gift-card-statistics/
Each of these pages compares where to buy the card:
US
* Dick’s Sporting Goods: https://felix-day.com/dicks-sporting-goods-gift-card/
* Fanatics: https://felix-day.com/fanatics-gift-card/
UK
* JD Sports: https://felixday.co.uk/jd-sports-gift-card/
* Sports Direct: https://felixday.co.uk/sports-direct-gift-card/
* Decathlon: https://felixday.co.uk/decathlon-gift-card/
