⚽

Soccer Ball Emoji ⚽

A classic black-and-white pentagon-patterned ball — that's the soccer-ball emoji, known as football pretty much everywhere outside the U.S. It's used for match days, World Cup fever, fantasy leagues, and casual 'wanna kick it around' plans, plus general fandom for the world's most popular sport.

What ⚽ means

A ball with alternate black and white pentagon patches covering the surface. The ⚽ Soccer Ball emoji represents soccer as the name suggests. It could also mean a game of 'football' in countries where 'soccer' is not exactly the word used for it.

How and when to use it

If you're asking/advising someone to pay attention to someone or something, you can use ⚽ as a way of saying "You'd better keep your eyes on the ball, mate ⚽ Could get kicked in the face if ya don't".
Speaking of a kick, ⚽ could signify both, the literal and metaphorical action. For instance, "This little kid kicked a football over the damn stadium!! ⚽" or "I'm just sick and tired of being kicked around like I'm nothing. Maybe I should teach all of them a lesson! ⚽".
Use ⚽ while talking about how unfair someone or something is - "He didn't ACTUALLY win, did he now? He widened every goalpost in his way ⚽". This use-case works for both literal and idiomatic frameworks.
If you're sharing a post or a repost about/for a footballer (famous or not), a post/text message about a gamechanger (either in a literal soccer game or otherwise), you can use ⚽ in the caption. For instance, "Damn. That show was a gamechanger! ⚽".

Other Names

⚽ Football
⚽ Black and White Ball
⚽ Soccer
⚽ American Football
⚽ Pigskin
⚽ Pigskin Sport
⚽ Kicking Ball

The lowdown

Category: Activities › sport
Codepoints: U+26BD
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :soccer::soccer_ball: Discord
Keywords: ball, football, futbol, soccer, sport

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.