Football Emoji Copy and Paste

Q: Is the football emoji the American ball or the soccer ball?

All three are: American football, Soccer ball and Rugby football share the search word football. Only the first and last have football in their names. Of 45 national associations in English-speaking countries, 43 call soccer football. Canada and the United States do not.

Press Copy for the American football, or pick the soccer ball, a touchdown, a play diagram or a combo below.

🏈American footballU+1F3C8Ready to copy

76 emoji and drawings. Tap one to copy it.

The three footballs and game day 13

Plain text stand-ins 10

Score lines and game-day lines 11

Plays in Xs and Os 5

ASCII ball, goalposts and field 5

Which football? By country 7

Football talk in emoji 25

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How it works

Three emoji answer to football in Unicode's search words, and American football, U+1F3C8, is the one above Copy. The soccer ball and the rugby ball come next, so football emoji copy and paste works whichever game you mean.

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Find the touchdown, the flag or the referee

Search reads names and search words. Touchdown finds seven tiles and formation finds five. Referee finds the Zebra: no emoji is a referee, and the officials are nicknamed zebras for their striped shirts. Penalty finds the yellow square, because the flag an official throws is a yellow cloth.

Where the Xs and Os hold their shape

The five plays, the field, the goalposts, the helmet and the scoreboard are plain keyboard characters, 29 columns wide at most. Every side in a play has eleven marks: O for the offense, X for the defense. They keep their shape only where text is monospaced, such as a code block.

Tips

Raising hands, the officials' touchdown signal, is the one tile that takes skin tones. Pick a tone under More options.
The three footballs date from Emoji 1.0 or earlier. Pickup truck and Coin need Emoji 13.0, and Palm down hand in the fumble needs 14.0.

Questions and answers

Is the football emoji the American ball or the soccer ball?

All three are: American football, Soccer ball and Rugby football share the search word football. Only the first and last have football in their names. Of 45 national associations in English-speaking countries, 43 call soccer football. Canada and the United States do not.

Is there a football helmet emoji?

No. In Unicode's emoji list, version 18.0, the word helmet leads to a guard, a military helmet and a rescue worker's helmet. Quarterback, touchdown and tackle lead to nothing at all. The ASCII helmet in the drawings is the stand-in.

How many points is a touchdown worth?

Six. A field goal is worth three and a safety two. After a touchdown, a kick through the uprights adds one point, and taking the ball into the end zone again adds two. The score lines group has all four as one line.

What do the Xs and Os mean?

In these drawings O is the offense and X is the defense. The I formation is named for the quarterback, fullback and running back standing in one column. A 4-3 defense has four linemen and three linebackers, and a 3-4 has three and four.

All 76 emoji and drawings

The three footballs and game day 13

🏈⚽🏉 All three footballs in one line
American football U+1F3C8. The ball this page opens on. CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, files it under american, bowl and football. Emoji 0.6.
Clipboard U+1F4CB. The nearest emoji to a playbook, where players keep a record of their plays. Emoji 0.6.
Coin U+1FA99. Before the game the referee and the two captains meet at midfield for the coin toss. Emoji 13.0.
Megaphone U+1F4E3. CLDR files one word of sport under it: cheering. Emoji 0.6.
Raising hands, the touchdown signal U+1F64C. Both arms straight up is the officials' signal for a touchdown. CLDR files hooray here, and it takes skin tones. Emoji 0.6.
Rugby football U+1F3C9. The only other emoji with football in its name. A rugby ball is oval and has four panels. Emoji 1.0.
Soccer ball U+26BD. Football to most of the world. CLDR files it under football, futbol and soccer. Emoji 0.6.
Stadium U+1F3DF U+FE0F. Where the game is played, and where the tailgate is parked. Emoji 0.7.
Television U+1F4FA. For everybody watching from the couch. CLDR files tv under it. Emoji 0.6.
Trophy U+1F3C6. CLDR files it under champion, champs, victory and win. Emoji 0.6.
Yellow square, the penalty flag U+1F7E8. The penalty flag is a yellow cloth, and CLDR files penalty under this square. Emoji 12.0.
Zebra, the officials' nickname U+1F993. No emoji is a referee. The officials are nicknamed zebras for their black-and-white striped shirts, so this is the nearest one. Emoji 5.0.

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Plain text stand-ins 10

✕✕✕ ○○○ Xs and Os, three of each
Filled oval U+2B2C Black horizontal ellipse. The ball on its side, as plain text. Black is Unicode's word for filled, not a colour setting.
Filled oval, upright U+2B2E Black vertical ellipse. The ball stood on its point, the way it sits on a tee for the kickoff.
Goalpost on one stem U+2442 Ocr fork. A stem that splits in two, like the slingshot-shaped goalposts with their single support post. Unicode made it for machine-read forms.
O for a play diagram U+25CB White circle. The offense in the drawings further down.
Outline oval U+2B2D White horizontal ellipse. The same ball in outline. It takes the colour of your words.
Outline oval, upright U+2B2F White vertical ellipse. Upright and in outline.
Stadium from above U+2B56 Heavy oval with oval inside. An oval inside an oval: stands around a field. On Japanese maps it marks a prefectural office.
Uprights and crossbar U+2294 Square cup. Two uprights on a crossbar. A kick scores by passing between them, over the bar. Mathematicians use the sign for something else.
X for a play diagram U+2715 Multiplication x. The defense in the drawings further down. A multiplication sign, lighter than a typed X.

Score lines and game-day lines 11

<(||||)> ASCII football, laces up
🏈 ⬬ 🏈 ⬬ 🏈 Divider of balls and filled ovals
🏈 𝗚𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬 🏈 Game day in bold sans capitals
🏈 ･･･ 🙌 Pass, dotted path, touchdown signal
|10|20|30|40|50|40|30|20|10| Yard numbers, goal line to goal line
1Q 7 · 2Q 3 · 3Q 0 · 4Q 14 = 24 Scoring by quarter: change the numbers
1st & 10 First down, ten yards to go
4th & goal The last down, with the goal line to reach
🏈 FINAL 24-17 Final score: change the numbers after you paste
TD 6 · FG 3 · SAFETY 2 · XP 1 What each score is worth
T🏈UCHD🏈WN Touchdown, with a ball for each letter O

Plays in Xs and Os 5

3-4 defense Three down linemen and four linebackers, with the same four defensive backs behind them.
4-3 defense Read from the bottom: four down linemen, three linebackers, then two cornerbacks out wide and two safeties deep. Eleven Xs.
I formation Five linemen, a tight end and a receiver at each end of the line. Behind the center stand the quarterback, the fullback and the running back in one column: the letter I. Eleven Os.
Line of scrimmage The 4-3 facing the I formation: 22 marks, eleven a side, offense moving up the screen.
Shotgun formation The quarterback stands further back with one back beside him, and the colon is the snap on its way. Eleven Os again.

ASCII ball, goalposts and field 5

Field Each number is tens of yards: up to the 50 at midfield and back down, in two rows, as painted on a real field. It is 100 yards from goal line to goal line, with an end zone beyond each.
Football Pointed at both ends, laces on top. Plain ASCII, 26 columns wide.
Goalposts The slingshot shape: two uprights, a crossbar and a single support post. On a real field the crossbar is 10 feet off the ground.
Helmet A hard shell, an ear hole and a face mask of bars, facing right. No emoji is a football helmet, so this is the only one on the page.
Scoreboard by quarter Four quarters and a total. Paste it, then change the numbers. It keeps its shape wherever the text is monospaced.

Which football? By country 7

Football in Australia: footy Flag: Australia, then rugby football. Eighteen a side on an oval field. No emoji is its ball, which is the same stretched shape as a rugby ball.
Football in Canada Flag: Canada, then american football. Twelve a side, three downs, and a field 110 yards long. The ball is the same pointed oval.
Football in Ireland: Gaelic Flag: Ireland, then soccer ball. Played with a round ball, the same shape as soccer's, so the soccer ball stands in.
Football in most of the world Globe showing Europe-Africa, then soccer ball. Of 45 national associations in English-speaking countries, 43 have football in their name. Canada and the United States say soccer.
Football in the United States Flag: United States, then american football. Eleven a side, four downs, and 100 yards between the goal lines.
Rugby football, from England Flag: England, then rugby football. It started at Rugby School in England, where the rules were first written down in 1845.
Which football? American football, then soccer ball, then rugby football, then thinking face. For the argument about who gets to use the word.

Football talk in emoji 25

Blitz High voltage, then american football. Linebackers or defensive backs charge into the backfield. CLDR files lightning under High voltage.
Champions American football, then trophy. One ball and one trophy.
Cheer squad Megaphone, then american football, then megaphone. CLDR files cheering under the megaphone.
Coin toss Coin, then american football. The winner chooses to receive, to kick off or which goal to defend, or defers the choice.
Fantasy football American football, then bar chart, then mobile phone. The game in which you run a made-up team and score on what real players do.
Field goal Leg, then american football, then keycap: 3. Worth three points: a kick through the uprights and over the crossbar. CLDR files kick under Leg.
Flag football Triangular flag, then american football. The version with no tackling: the defense pulls a flag from the ball carrier instead.
Flag on the play Yellow square, then american football. The penalty flag is a yellow cloth.
Fumble Palm down hand, then american football. A ball a player lost hold of by accident. CLDR files drop under Palm down hand, which needs Emoji 14.0.
Game day Stadium, then american football. Ground first, then the reason for going.
Greatest of all time Goat, then american football. The goat is the word GOAT. Which player it points at is your argument to have.
Hail Mary Folded hands, then american football. A very long pass made in desperation, named after the prayer. CLDR files pray under Folded hands.
Homecoming American football, then crown, then woman dancing. A school's welcome back to its former students, built most often around a football game and a dance.
Huddle Busts in silhouette, then speaking head, then american football. An on-field meeting to pass on instructions for the next play.
Kickoff Leg, then american football, then dashing away. A free kick that starts each half and restarts the game after a touchdown or a field goal.
Overtime American football, then stopwatch, then plus. What a game goes to when the score is tied after four quarters.
Pick-six Pick, then keycap: 6. An interception, a pick, run back for a touchdown, a six.
Pigskin Pig, then american football. A nickname for the ball itself.
Red zone Red circle, then american football. The last 20 yards before the goal line. Nothing on the field is painted red.
Sack Collision, then american football, then down arrow. Tackling the passer before he can throw.
Spike American football, then down arrow. The quarterback throws the ball straight into the ground to stop the clock, at the cost of a down.
Tailgate Pickup truck, then hot dog, then hamburger. A party round the open tailgate of a vehicle, in the stadium car park before the game. Pickup truck needs Emoji 13.0.
Take a knee Person kneeling, then american football. Kneeling after the snap ends the play and keeps the clock running.
Touchdown American football, then raising hands. A play worth six points, and the signal the officials give for it.
Two-minute warning Keycap: 2, then stopwatch. A free time out with two minutes left in a half. Some leagues use a different time.

How this list was compiled: The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml, main branch). Every character that is not an emoji was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a character uses its name from that file. Rules, measurements and terms were checked against the English Wikipedia articles American football, American football field, Ball (gridiron football), Football (ball), Football (word), Rugby ball, Rugby football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Penalty flag, Touchdown, Official (gridiron football), Hail Mary pass, I formation, Shotgun formation, 4–3 defense, 3–4 defense, American football positions, American football plays, Glossary of American football terms, Tailgate party, Homecoming, Flag football, Fantasy football (gridiron) and Football helmet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football and the articles it links to), read on 2026-09-20. The play diagrams, the ASCII drawings, the one-line drawings and the combos, with their names, are our own work. In the diagrams O is the offense and X is the defense. The combos stand for no team, league or competition. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work