🏉Rugby Football Emoji
Generally, it just means rugby. People use it to talk about the sport or when something reminds them of a rugby ball.
The 🏉 emoji is the rugby football.
- Unicode
- U+1F3C9
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :rugby_football:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🏉 Rugby Football emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
People also look for it as rugby ball emoji.
Rugby Football emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F3C9. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Rugby Football emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :rugby_football:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3C9.
How to type the 🏉 Rugby Football emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3C9 when there is no key at all.
Rugby Football emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Rugby Football emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around rugby football for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🏉, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🏉 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the rugby football and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🏉 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3C9, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🏉 vs 🏈 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Rugby Football
Code: U+1F3C9 · added 2015
Shortcode: :rugby_football:
Generally, it just means rugby.
Unicode name: American Football
Code: U+1F3C8 · added 2010
Shortcode: :football:
Generally, the 🏈 emoji just means American football.
Where the 🏉 Rugby Football emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the rugby football to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F3C9 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Rugby Football was approved as U+1F3C9 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏉 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.