With the focus already on next season, the Premier League has unveiled its new official match ball for 2025-26, the first non-Nike ball in a quarter-century.
Puma became only the third manufacturer to supply the official Premier League match ball since the league’s inception in 1992-93, with Mitre serving as the inaugural supplier until 2000. Nike subsequently stepped in, providing 25 variations of their spherical playing apparatus until their collaboration agreement expired at the end of last season. Reported by ESPN.
As a result, the new season will be played with the Puma Orbita Ultimate PL, which will make its debut in July at the Premier League Summer Series, a series of pre-match exhibition games in the United States featuring Manchester United, Everton, West Ham, and Bournemouth, before returning to action when the 2025-26 Premier League season begins on the weekend of August 16.
In terms of technical specifications, the Orbita Ultimate PL has 12 evenly-sized star-shaped panels that appear to be created to ensure optimal weight distribution and shape retention, while the oversized stitched seams allow for superior aerodynamics.
Basically, it’s the roundest, most dependable football ever made. As per.
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