U+26BD · emoji since 2010
The football is the world's game in one sphere. Match days, five a side, World Cups, and garden kickabouts all roll with it.
It starts team chats, celebrates screamers, and mourns penalties. Whatever you call the sport, this is its emoji.
In texting, ⚽ does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and ⚽ is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Soccer Ball emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the soccer ball emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The ⚽ leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.