UEFA Europa League 25/26 Replica Football Size 5, White

Our design teams have created an official replica of the UEFA Europa League ball.

Designed by KIPSTA for the biggest nights in Europe’s second-biggest stage, the official UEFA Europa League ball brings elite consistency and durability to every match.

Kipsta, supplier of the official UEFA Europa & Conference League ball

The UEFA Board of Directors designated Kipsta, the Decathlon group's football brand, as the new official supplier of the UEFA. Kipsta premium footballs, designed in France, have been awarded the FIFA Quality Pro label and undergo quality tests at various stages of production. With the official balls of the UEFA Europa & UEFA Conference Leagues, Kipsta wishes to demonstrate its know-how at the highest level of competition.

The durability of our balls

We've developed a tool for characterising the durability of our balls. Defects that appear in use are identified and assessed through a series of laboratory tests. These tests enable us to compare the overall strength of our footballs with those available on the market. Our aim: to have the most durable products on the market.

Designed in France

This ball, just like the whole of our range, is 100% designed in France, and has been rigorously tested by a combination of lab and field tests. So it meets the strictest standards and requirements, as well as complying with a whole range of additional tests, specifically developed by Decathlon. Apart from normative tests, our Kipsta Certification Unit carries out additional tests, that enable us to design, but also objectively compare our products.

WHAT IS THE KIPSTA CERTIFICATION TEAM?

The Kipsta certification unit is a team made up of qualified field trial engineers, renowned for: establishing specific protocols and tests relating to how the products will be used. Recruitment of qualified testers with a level suitable to evaluate products' functions. Objective analysis of results, using statistical tools. These tests cover general aspects, such as durability, durable inflation, and functions that reflect the ball's technical aspects.

The Kipstadium, in Tourcoing, France

To design our balls, we have a dedicated team, as well as a laboratory based in France. The Ball team in France is made up of product engineers, component engineers and test engineers, which means we are able to master the entire ball design process, from components to technical validation.

Our ball lab

At Decathlon we've been testing our balls for over 15 years in order to validate our products during the design, industrialisation and post-production phases. A laboratory 100% dedicated to ball tests was even created in 2018 at the Kipstadium site in France. More than a dozen tests are carried out on our balls. First of all, there are the tests required by FIFA, as well as other, additional tests, created by the engineers within our laboratory.

Decathlon, the designer

With 40 years' experience as a designer, Decathlon bases its product development on desirability and accessibility for all, consequently implying a notion of universality in their design (age, gender and nationality). The group's, and therefore Kipsta's, aesthetic line is a balance between our convictions (simple, technical and clever products) and our sober, universal and modern artistic direction.

Designers as well as engineers

The DNA worked into this ball (i.e. the formal basis on which a graphic design is juxtaposed) combines technical features and balance. The spatial apprehension and the visual effects linked to the ball during its movements are worked on so as not to cause any visual discomfort to the players, thus supporting the design choice.

The story behind this ball

This ball is an exclusive Kipsta design, and incorporates some of the same technical choices as our Official Match Ball. What you should know - It features thermobonded technology: a seamless ball. - It's made up of 12 panels with an exclusive shape.

Too light? Too heavy? The weight is standardised...

This ball weighs between 410 g and 450 g (size 5) and complies with official FIFA standards. FIFA Basic approved.

How big is it? What's the circumference?

This ball measures between 68.0 cm and 70.0 cm and complies with official FIFA standards. FIFA Basic approved.

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