Which football? ๐ or โฝ depends on your audience. Copy both here with the match-day emoji.
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What the football emoji means
โFootball emojiโ depends on where you are. ๐ (american football) is the oval ball, for the NFL, college ball and the Super Bowl. โฝ (soccer ball) is the round one, for the sport most of the world calls football. Using the wrong one in a caption is a classic small mistake. ๐๏ธ the stadium, ๐ the trophy and ๐ฅ the goal net complete the match-day set.
Unicode name: american football ยท U+1F3C8 ยท Emoji 0.6 (original set) ยท group: Activities.
โฝ for the round-ball game, ๐ for the American game. Choose by your audience.
Is there a rugby emoji?
๐ rugby football, which looks similar to ๐.
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