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⚽️Soccer Ball Emoji
Tagged ball, football and futbol, ⚽️ soccer ball sits in Unicode's Sports group inside Activities. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+26BD U+FE0F.
What ⚽️ soccer ball means
Balls and gear, used to say what you play, what you are watching, or which team you support. ⚽ and 🏀 do the most work worldwide; 🏈 is specifically American football, with 🏉 covering rugby. ⛳ carries business-golf connotations, and 🎣 means fishing for compliments as often as fishing. 🥎, 🥍 and 🥏 all arrived in Emoji 11.0.
Unicode tags this one ball, football and futbol and files it under Activities → Sports.
Copy variants
soccer ball carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How ⚽️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- ⚽U+26BDsoccer ball
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+26BD U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | ⚽️ | |
| HTML decimal | ⚽️ | |
| CSS | \26BD\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{26BD}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U000026BD\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \u26BD\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{26bd}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{26BD}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{26BD}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9A%BD%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9A BD EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | 26BD FE0F | |
| Base64 | 4pq977iP | |
| Decimal | 9917 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type ⚽️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “soccer ball”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “ball”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type26bdand Enter. - HTML — paste
⚽️.
How ⚽️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- ⚽️Apple
- ⚽️Segoe
- ⚽️Noto
- ⚽️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the ⚽️ soccer ball emoji mean?+
⚽️ is the soccer ball emoji, tagged ball, football and futbol. Balls and gear, used to say what you play, what you are watching, or which team you support. ⚽ and 🏀 do the most work worldwide; 🏈 is specifically American football, with 🏉 covering rugby. ⛳ carries business-golf connotations, and 🎣 means fishing for compliments as often as fishing. 🥎, 🥍 and 🥏 all arrived in Emoji 11.0.
What is the Unicode code for ⚽️?+
soccer ball is U+26BD U+FE0F. In HTML that is ⚽️, in CSS \26BD\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{26BD}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the ⚽️ emoji added?+
soccer ball got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Sports in Activities.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ⚽️ soccer ball.