Explore & Win
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 11th, 2026. The game will end once all the balls have been found, or no later than the grand prize drawing on July 20th, 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.
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 😊 |
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Switzerland | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 02:35 |
Shiwei Yang China |
10-17 precision of an optical ion clock even beats the best Swiss watches - challenge accepted! |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 07:25 |
Rosalie Schessl Germany |
A flag with an infinite number of stars by definition - where else could we hide it? |
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Cape Verde | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 09:25 |
Raouf Ayadi Germany |
Not all footballs are as easy to find as this one |
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Brazil | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 10:33 |
Justas Baltrukonis Lithuania |
Party and people dressed like carnival - a perfect place to add Brazil. |
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Spain | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 11:56 |
Syed Ali Hussain Germany |
The Canary Island (=Spain) were a perfect choice to do something with our guide star lasers. |
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Turkey | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 12:59 |
Mika Zalewski United Kingdom |
The "All wavelengths" group picture could have been a perfect hiding spot for any football |
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Australia | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 13:27 |
Felix Lang Germany |
Of course our friend Ken the Guru (thanks to Marc-Uwe Kling for this nice punch) was hiding something in his bag ... |
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Curaçao | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 13:28 |
Stefan Zerobin Austria |
The blue curaçao flag is certainly a highlight for vexillologists. The two stars representing the two islands the country consists of. We wish good luck for the tournament. |
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Uruguay | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 13:45 |
Günther Hannesschläger Austria |
We couldn´t fool you 😊 |
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France | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 14:17 |
Sophie Decoppet United Kingdom |
Many options to hide the French ball on our website - but we decided to leave some of the other hiding places to other French speaking countries. |
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Morocco | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 14:31 |
Gabriel Machuca United Kingdom |
Red ball connected with pentagram lines - an easy pick |
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Sweden | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 14:46 |
Théodore Barbier United Kingdom |
What would photonics industry do without Erbium, Ytterbium, Thulium, Holmium, Cerium etc., which were all discovered in Sweden? No wonder, we needed to hide the Swedish flag on the ground. |
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Mexico | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:10 |
The Netherlands |
Maybe a little far fetched, but the power graphics under aditional information reminded us somewhat about the famous Maya pyramids. |
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Qatar | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:29 |
Kyle Stroessenreuther United States |
A hiding place as natural as natural gas. Vast quantities of Methane and other gases in the mix in Qatar. |
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Ghana | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:40 |
Molly Smith United Kingdom |
Flag which looks like a focus spot in all colors - our iBeam series seemed like a suitable hiding place. |
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Ivory Coast | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:42 |
Jon Gallagher United States |
A poster for atoms, solid states, gases, dyes - only Ivory was missing here |
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Japan | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 15:56 |
Liam Jeanette United States |
A ball which almost looks like the TOPTICA logo - of course we couldn´t resist. Go samurai blue! |
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Netherlands | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 16:09 |
Eddy Torres United States |
Which country can be more associated with it´s permanent relationship with water? Keep your head above water - Oranje boven! |
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Ecuador | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 16:27 |
Eleonora Lippi Germany |
Ecuador is located on the equator = 0 degrees latitude. Just like our CERO frequency comb technology with no phase offset 😊 |
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Saudi Arabia | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 16:32 |
June Vanlerberghe United States |
Microscopy with green fluorophores offers perfect hiding places |
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South Korea | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 07:07 |
Laura Carmine Germany |
We specially liked the Taeguki stripes on the korean flag, which give the football some vibrating energy. |
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England | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 16:37 |
Thomas Kim United States |
Easy find - and always a difficult opponent for the German football team (unless there is a penalty shootout 😊) |
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Colombia | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 17:05 |
Thomas Hinde United Kingdom |
If Botero knew robots, he might have depicted them like this. |
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Haiti | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 17:42 |
Aaron Leu United Kingdom |
Converting red light into blue - a nice creative match for our SHG systems |
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Senegal | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 17:48 |
Laird Egan United States |
French speaking country - why not hide two famous french names? |
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South Africa | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 17:59 |
Grigorii Vydrevich Germany |
A flag which almost perfectly resembles our photonics favorites: all wavelengths in a PIC structure 😊 |
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Uzbekistan | Hiding place | Do 11.06.2026 22:10 |
Anish Thomas United States |
A flag, which is containing a Bose Einstein Condensate lattice - well done Quzbekistan. |
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Tunisia | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 04:11 |
Sasha Bonkowsky United States |
Tunisia features wonderful landscapes. An SUV is good for some of the rougher roads in the Atlas mountains. While TOPTICA mostly thinks of a specific technology when talking about SUV and otherwise prefers the bike for transportation. |
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United States | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 05:19 |
Keqin Yan United States |
A flag consisting of 50 laser spots from a holographic DOE element plus an uniform interference pattern. The creators in 1776 must have been PhD laser phycisits ... |
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DR Congo | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 05:50 |
Swapnil Patel United States |
Our Terahertz systems reveal the invisible. Did it help you spot this national team football? Please don't use playing poker. |
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Austria | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 15:59 |
Julia Miklas United Kingdom |
Our VP Sales Manfred is well known to be from Austria (and everybody at TOPTICA needs to go on vacation the day after an Austrian football win over Germany) |
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Scotland | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 17:07 |
Yoav Kargon United States |
Yes - Nick, our head of TOPTICA France is from Scotland (which you can barely notice from his accent) |
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Jordan | Hiding place | Fr 12.06.2026 17:29 |
Tim Wohlers-Reichel United Kingdom |
Who doesn´t immediately think of a tapered amplifier diode structure and an emitting photon, when he sees the flag of Jordan? |
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Norway | Hiding place | Sa 13.06.2026 18:43 |
Nathan Taylor United States |
Since Iceland did not qualify, Norway probably represents the coolest participant (and Haaland is pretty cool as well) |
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Belgium | Hiding place | Sa 13.06.2026 18:59 |
Lale Einhorn Germany |
Belgium is a hot spot for PIC, Quantum and Semiconductors. But can they also finally win their first international football title? |
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Iraq | Hiding place | So 14.06.2026 10:08 |
Sean Brudney Switzerland |
Close name connection between T-Rack and Iraq (although with completely different spelling) |
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Argentina | Hiding place | So 14.06.2026 14:02 |
Dominik Drewer |
The "sun of May" in the flag of Argentina inspired us for a nice space picture with sunshine reflection |
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Czech Republic | Hiding place |
So 14.06.2026 14:44
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Jaspal Singh France |
We couldn´t resist to put the Czech flag under the Check Quality section (sorry for this cheap punch) |
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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.
