adidas TRIONDA – Official Match Ball FIFA World Cup 26

adidas has unveiled TRIONDA as the official match ball for the 2026 FIFA World Cup (now called World Cup by world football’s governing body), which will be hosted across three countries for the first time: Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

The ball’s design pays tribute to all three host nations through its color scheme and symbolism. Its four-panel construction features red, blue, and green – the national colors of the host countries – converging in triangular shapes at the center of each panel to represent their collaboration. The name itself, TRIONDA, references waves through its fluid geometric design.

Each host nation gets specific recognition through embedded iconography: a star for the United States, a maple leaf for Canada, and an eagle for Mexico. These symbols appear as prominent graphics on the panels and are subtly embossed into the ball’s matte surface, creating detailed texture visible at close range. Gold accents throughout the design mirror the FIFA World Cup trophy itself.

The four-panel construction serves both aesthetic and functional purposes. Deep seams, strategically positioned debossed lines, and the raised country icons work together to optimize how the ball moves through the air. These surface features create evenly distributed drag that keeps the ball stable during flight. The embossed icons offer an additional advantage: better grip when players dribble or strike the ball in wet or humid weather.

TRIONDA incorporates the latest version of adidas’s Connected Ball Technology, though with a significant design change. Previous versions placed the sensor chip at the ball’s center, held by a suspension system. This new iteration mounts a 500Hz motion sensor chip into a specially designed layer within one of the four panels. To maintain the ball’s balance and flight characteristics, counter-balances are built into the other three panels.

This technology tracks every aspect of the ball’s movement and transmits detailed data in real time to the Video Assistant Referee system. When this ball data combines with information about player positions and gets processed through artificial intelligence, referees can make offside calls much more quickly. The system was developed through partnership with Kinexon.

The technology offers another benefit for match officials: it can detect individual touches of the ball, making it easier to resolve specific situations like potential handballs without lengthy reviews.