Kickball Hub: What Kind of Cleats to Buy for Kickball? Soccer Cleats Vs. Football Cleats

While Kickball is a fun and fast growing sport, it's not quite big enough yet to where sports equipment brands are making kickball shoes. That may not be the case forever though as tons of brands are rushing into the Pickleball space and we never would have foreseen that happening. Anyhow, many Kickball players like to wear cleats, especially on dirt or gravel fields where tennis shoes have no traction. Our choices as Kickball players are basically soccer cleats, football cleats, or baseball cleats. In today's post we're going to examine what is the best cleat to buy and wear for kickball.

So first off, most baseball cleats are made out of metal and are going to be out, not only are they not allowed in most kickball leagues but they're unnecessary and potentially dangerous. That leaves us with soccer cleats and football cleats. When I purchased my first set of cleats for kickball I was tempted to go with a football cleat as I felt they offered more ankle support, however there's one huge flaw in kickball cleats, they have a toe cleat which could stick in the dirt and cause you to trip, or worse injure your foot.

We've discussed in other posts how to properly kick a kickball, how to kick bouncing pitches, and how to kick grounders or keep the ball low kicking groundballs and line drives. To do so you want to extend your foot to provide a flat surface and kick with your laces. If you attempted to do this with a football cleat there's a good chance your cleat would wind up catching and sticking, and you'd either wind up best case tripping and falling on your face, or worst case injuring your leg.

If you're looking to pickup a pair of cleats for kickball make them soccer cleats. Checkout the pair below as it's our favorite pair of soccer cleats for kickball and they're quite affordable as well.