U+26BD

⚽ Soccer ball

Category: Activities
Subcategory: Sports Equipment
Shortcode
Unicode version: 6.0 (2010)
Emoji version: 0.6 (2010)
Status: fully-qualified

What the ⚽ emoji means

The classic black-and-white ball. Football everywhere except the United States, where the word means a different game and this one is «soccer».

Marks matches, results and team talk. Fine on its own as a reply to «watching tonight?».

Chat examples

Will your readers see ⚽

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

Apple always there
Google always there
Microsoft always there
Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the ⚽ emoji is used

The ⚽ smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how soccer ball is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Image size

⚽ Your deviceNative system font
Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English	soccer ball
Русский	футбол
Deutsch	Fußball
Español	balón de fútbol
Français	ballon de football
Polski	piłka nożna
Dansk	fodbold
Українська	футбольний м’яч
Português	bola de futebol

Unicode CLDR 48

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