Soccer ball

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Shortcode: :soccer:
Shortcode: :soccer_ball:
Unicode: U+26BD
HTML: ⚽
CSS: \26BD
JavaScript: "\u{26BD}"
URL: %E2%9A%BD

What ⚽ means

A black-and-white soccer ball. It stands for the world's game: soccer, called football almost everywhere outside the US.

Match days, goals, fantasy leagues and big tournaments all draw it, often with 🥅 or a team's flag. Fans also send it to say "game on" or to plan a kickabout.

"Football" means ⚽ in most countries and 🏈 in the US, so the word alone can confuse.

Facts

Soccer ball ⚽ is an emoji in the activities category, under sport. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :soccer: or :soccer_ball:. People also look for it with words like “ball”, “football”, “futbol”, or “soccer”.