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Spot the National Team Footballs

To celebrate the launch of our new TOPTICA website, we’ve hidden 48 national team footballs across our pages. Whether you're a laser expert, a curious student, or simply passionate about photonics or football, this challenge is for you.

Explore our website to find one of the 48 hidden national team footballs, which are inspired by national team colors. See for example on the right.

Spot one and win a football. Some are right under your nose, others are cleverly hidden.

But be quick: Each National team football can only be claimed once, and each participant can win only one prize.Every participant is automatically entered into the drawing for the grand prize: a TOPTICA football table.

We are hiding the first footballs on June 11^th, 2026. The game will end once all the balls have been found, or no later than the grand prize drawing on July 20^th, 2026.

Prizes

Win 1 of 48 TOPTICA Footballs

Featuring a sleek modern design, this football is ideal for casual games, office tournaments, or display. A fun and memorable prize for laser enthusiasts and football fans alike.

Find and claim a national team football on the TOPTICA website first and you will be a winner.

Grand Prize

One TOPTICA Football Table

Host your own tournament with the TOPTICA Football Table. Designed with TOPTICA-inspired photonics details and premium TOPTICA-branding, this one-of-a-kind table transforms any office, or breakout area into a high-energy playground for innovation and teamwork. Perfect for friendly matches between colleagues, customers, and partners.

All contest participants are automatically entered into a raffle to win the exclusive TOPTICA Football Table.

The winner will be announced on July 20 (the day after the World Cup final) on the TOPTICA website and on social media.

Submit Your Find to football@toptica.com

List of Finds

The list of found national team footballs can be seen here. We will announce the find promptly and wait for 4 more days to publish the exact location (to keep the fun up for other players who want to enter the raffle). By participating, winners agree that their chosen name or alias may be published.

Ball	Country	Where?	When?	Who?	TOPTICA's comment 😊
	Germany			it could be You!	💡 It took some serious "deep ground level football knowledge to find this one. Admittedly, that might raise a few eyebrows within the TOPTICA team – but someone has to have privileges in difficult times on the pitch.
	Switzerland	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 02:35	Shiwei Yang China	10⁻¹⁵-level precision of an optical ion clock outshines even the finest Swiss watch – challenge accepted!
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 07:25	Rosalie Schessl Germany	A flag with infinitely many stars, by definition – where else would we hide it?
	Cape Verde	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 09:25	Raouf Ayadi Germany	Not every ball is this easy to spot.
	Brazil	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 10:33	Justas Baltrukonis Lithuania	Carnival costumes and party vibes – the perfect spot for Brazil.
	Spain	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 11:56	Syed Ali Hussain Germany	The Canary Islands (Spain) were the perfect fit for our guide star lasers.
	Turkey	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 12:59	Mika Zalewski United Kingdom	Our "All Wavelengths" group photo was the perfect hiding spot for any ball.
	Australia	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 13:27	Felix Lang Germany	Naturally, Ken the Guru (nice pun, Marc-Uwe Kling!) had something stashed in his bag...
	Curaçao	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 13:28	Stefan Zerobin Austria	Curaçao's blue flag is a vexillologist's favorite – its two stars represent the country's two islands. Good luck in the tournament!
	Uruguay	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 13:45	Günther Hannesschläger Austria	We couldn't fool you 😊
	France	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 14:17	Sophie Decoppet United Kingdom	Plenty of spots to hide the French ball on our site – but we left a few for other French-speaking countries.
	Morocco	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 14:31	Gabriel Machuca United Kingdom	A red ball linked by pentagram lines – an easy pick.
	Sweden	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 14:46	Théodore Barbier United Kingdom	Erbium, Ytterbium, Thulium, Holmium, Cerium – where would photonics be without elements discovered in Sweden? Naturally, the flag had to be grounded.
	Mexico	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 15:10	Stijn Scheijen The Netherlands	A bit of a stretch, but those power graphs reminded us of the Maya pyramids.
	Qatar	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 15:29	Kyle Stroessenreuther United States	As natural as natural gas – Qatar's vast methane reserves made the perfect mix.
	Ghana	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 15:40	Molly Smith United Kingdom	A flag that looks like a rainbow focus spot – a natural fit for our iBeam series.
	Ivory Coast	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 15:42	Jon Gallagher United States	Atoms, solids, gases, dyes – only ivory was missing from this poster.
	Japan	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 15:56	Liam Jeanette United States	This ball looks almost like our logo – couldn't resist. Go Samurai Blue!
	Netherlands	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 16:09	Eddy Torres United States	What country has a closer bond with water? Keep your head above water – Oranje boven!
	Ecuador	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 16:27	Eleonora Lippi Germany	Ecuador sits right on the equator – zero degrees latitude, just like our CERO comb's zero phase offset 😊
	Saudi Arabia	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 16:32	June Vanlerberghe United States	Green fluorophores under the microscope make for perfect hiding places.
	South Korea	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 07:07	Laura Carmine Germany	We especially liked the Taeguk stripes on Korea's flag – they give the ball some vibrant energy.
	England	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 16:37	Thomas Kim United States	Easy find – and always a tough opponent for Germany (unless it comes down to penalties 😊).
	Colombia	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 17:05	Thomas Hinde United Kingdom	If Botero painted robots, they might look like this.
	Haiti	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 17:42	Aaron Leu United Kingdom	Turning red light into blue – a fitting match for our SHG systems.
	Senegal	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 17:48	Laird Egan United States	A French-speaking country – why not hide two famous French names?
	South Africa	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 17:59	Grigorii Vydrevich Germany	A flag that mirrors our photonics favorite: every wavelength in one PIC 😊
	Uzbekistan	Hiding place	Do 11.06.2026 22:10	Anish Thomas Germany	A flag containing a Bose-Einstein condensate lattice – well played, Quzbekistan!
	Tunisia	Hiding place	Fr 12.06.2026 04:11	Sasha Bonkowsky United States	Tunisia's Atlas Mountain roads call for an SUV – though at TOPTICA, "SUV" usually means something else, and we'd take the bike anyway.
	United States	Hiding place	Fr 12.06.2026 05:19	Keqin Yan United States	Fifty laser-spot stars from a holographic DOE plus a uniform interference pattern – the 1776 founders must've been laser physicists.
	DR Congo	Hiding place	Fr 12.06.2026 05:50	Swapnil Patel United States	Our Terahertz systems reveal the invisible – did they help you spot this ball? Just don't use them for poker.
	Austria	Hiding place	Fr 12.06.2026 15:59	Julia Miklas United Kingdom	Our VP Sales Manfred is well known for hailing from Austria – and everyone at TOPTICA knows to take the day off after an Austrian win over Germany.
	Scotland	Hiding place	Fr 12.06.2026 17:07	Yoav Kargon United States	Yes – Nick, our head of TOPTICA France, is from Scotland (though you'd barely guess it from his accent).
	Jordan	Hiding place	Fr 12.06.2026 17:29	Tim Wohlers-Reichel United Kingdom	What else does Jordan's flag bring to mind but a tapered amplifier diode and an emitted photon?
	Norway	Hiding place	Sa 13.06.2026 18:43	Nathan Taylor United States	Since Iceland did not qualify, Norway's our coolest contender (and Haaland's pretty cool too).
	Belgium	Hiding place	Sa 13.06.2026 18:59	Lale Einhorn Germany	Belgium's a hotspot for PIC, quantum, and semiconductors – but can they finally land their first title?
	Iraq	Hiding place	So 14.06.2026 10:08	Sean Brudney Switzerland	T-Rack and Iraq – close in sound, worlds apart in spelling.
	Argentina	Hiding place	So 14.06.2026 14:02	Dominik Drewer Germany	Argentina's "Sun of May" inspired our sunlit space shot.
	Czech Republic	Hiding place	So 14.06.2026 14:44	Jaspal Singh France	Couldn't resist tucking the Czech flag into our Check Quality section (sorry for the cheap pun).
	Panama	Hiding place	2026-06-14 20:33	Wesley Brand United States	Probably the toughest hiding spot yet: "ocean world missions."
	New Zealand	Hiding place	2026-06-15 02:14	Ziqing Pang Canada	For ages, New Zealand was terra incognita — unknown and nearly invisible to the world. Sounds like a job for our terahertz expert Anselm, who happens to be a huge fan of the country...
	Portugal	Hiding Place	2026-06-15 11:11	Jakob Helms Switzerland	No direct laser diodes exist between green and red – no problem for our FDDL diodes, which emit right in that yellow-green gap.
	Paraguay	Hiding place	2026-06-15 21:58	Ignacio Pérez Spain	Did you know Paraguay reached the quarterfinals in 2010? AOMazing! Fingers crossed for an encore in 2026.
	Egypt	Hiding place	2026-06-15 23:18	Carmen Martin Spain	Nile Blue is a popular fluorescent dye for biological imaging, lipid staining, and fluorescence microscopy. Its peak absorption sits at 640 nm, though 525 nm might still coax out some fluorescence. If Egypt takes the title, we'll put that to the test in our bio-laser lab.
	Canada	Hiding place	2026-06-18 08:28	Kai Shinbrough United Kingdom	Red and white. Unfortunately not possible with the dual color option for our femtosecond fiber lasers, but for a football team, this is a highly recommended set of colors.
	Croatia	Hiding place	2026-06-21 14:17	Nicolas Cathelin Germany	Nikola Tesla's hometown is now in Croatia. Having an interest in high frequency technology, he would have loved TOPTICA's Terahertz systems. What better place to hide a football in his remembrance
	Iran	Hiding Place	2026-06-23 14:55	Hamed Abbasi Germany	💡Not sure why Iran and the Strait of Hormuz have been on everyone's mind lately… Fortunately, our two-photon lasers are made for pinhole-free microscopy.
	Algeria	Hiding Place	2026-06-24 01:39	Justin T. Schultz United States	💡Laser beam shaping – ike the "Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy" donut – already is a difficult skill. If you really want a challenge, be inspired by the Algerian flag.

Terms & Conditions

Organizer
TOPTICA Photonics SE, Germany

How it works

Find one of up to 48 hidden national team footballs on www.toptica.com
Send an email to football@toptica.com with the exact location (URL and screenshot) and your name, and shipping address. Please avoid including personal or sensitive information in screenshots.
The first valid submission per hidden football wins a TOPTICA Football (max. 1 football per person).
Employees are excluded from the public prize drawings.

Prizes

48 TOPTICA Footballs, one for each first found football
1 TOPTICA Football Table, raffled among all participants

Shipping
Prizes are shipped from Germany. Winners are responsible for the import. Winners outside of the EU may request an alternative prize of comparable value.

Winner selection
TOPTICA’s email server timestamp is binding for winner determination.
The football table winner is selected by random draw among all eligible participants on July 20th.

Data & legal
Participants must be at least 18 years old or have parental consent.
By participating, winners agree that their chosen name or alias may be published.
Personal data is processed solely for contest administration in accordance with GDPR.

Contact
football@toptica.com

Disclaimer: This promotion is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by FIFA or any official tournament organizer.