Soccer Ball World Records

Raz, a border collie in Melbourne, Australia, leaps a timber rail to chase a red-and-white soccer ball, then turns and dribbles it back across the grass. He rolls the ball beneath the rail and jumps over after it, completing the out-and-back in 9 seconds, timed from the video from his outward takeoff to his return landing. The ball takes the low road; Raz takes the high one.

Raz, a border collie, trots up to a wooden equestrian cross-country table in a grassy field in Melbourne, Australia, crouches at its base and scrambles onto the top, where a red-and-white soccer ball is waiting. Standing on the tabletop, he paws the ball over the front edge and it drops to the grass below. Timed frame by frame from the video, 1.2 seconds pass between his push off the ground and the ball leaving the table. The jump is built for horses; Raz handles it like a step.

Lily, a golden retriever, and Raz, a border collie, chase a black soccer ball around their backyard in Melbourne, Australia, each with a toy in its mouth. Lily strikes the ball with a front paw at about 14 and 25 seconds into the 54-second clip, and Raz paws it on at about 23, 36 and 51 seconds, with family members rolling or kicking it back into play between turns. Checked frame by frame, the single continuous take shows both dogs kicking the ball with their paws, for a total of 2 dogs. Neither dog drops its toy to do it.

Raz, a border collie, dribbles a red-and-white soccer ball across a sports field in Melbourne, Australia, steering it with nose and front paws while the owner follows with a phone camera. Raz leaves the ball once, about nine seconds into the 51-second clip, then comes back and keeps it rolling for 38 unbroken seconds before trotting away from it. That stretch, timed from the video, is the record. Four legs, zero hands, no problem.

Raz, a border collie, waits at the mouth of a blue dog agility tunnel in a backyard in Melbourne, Australia, at night, with a tennis ball in his mouth and a red soccer ball just inside the entrance. He dives in, pushes the ball the full length of the tunnel out of the camera's view, and pops out the far end as the ball rolls on into a mini soccer goal. Timed from the video, from the first frame with Raz standing still to the moment the ball is in the net, the run takes 5 seconds. Part agility run, part shot on goal.

Raz, a border collie, works a small black-and-white soccer ball around a backyard training pen of artificial turf and red panels in Melbourne, Australia, with a tennis ball held in his mouth throughout. Partway through the 20-second run he sets one front paw on top of the ball, rolls it across, and passes it straight to his other front paw in one quick motion, the sole roll soccer players use to shift the ball from foot to foot. Checked frame by frame, the clip is one continuous, unedited take, and the whole move lasts under a second. According to his owner, this is the trick that gave Rollover Raz Entertainment its name.

William Cain sits cross-legged on a backyard deck in Melbourne with a tethered soccer training ball resting between his knees, then slaps it with alternating open hands at a furious pace. The whole burst lasts just under ten seconds from the first hit to the last. We counted 110 slaps from the clip, matching each audible hit against the footage. That works out to about eleven slaps every second.

William Cain kicks a soccer training ball on a cord straight up in his Melbourne living room and jumps to meet it with his head on the way down. Counted frame by frame, the ball leaves his foot and lands on his head 22 frames later, 0.73 seconds at the video's 30 frames per second. Blink and you'd miss the whole thing.

A young player heads a soccer training ball twice in a row in a Melbourne living room, holding the ball's cord in one hand to control it. Slowed down frame by frame, the clip shows both headers landing less than a quarter of a second apart, comfortably inside the one-second window. A few warm-up swings come first, then the ball drops and two quick nods send it back up.

Danail Parvanov completed 15 full 360-degree turns while keeping a soccer ball in the air, hopping through each rotation without losing control, in Sofia, Bulgaria. That takes the record from the standing 9. Every turn includes a blind moment where the ball hangs unwatched mid-spin, and stringing fifteen together in one take is the hard part. Verified as a single unbroken video.

Pavol Durdik stacked nine marshmallows on a soccer ball held in his hand.

Pavol Durdik stacked 12 fidget spinners on a soccer ball held in his hand.

Victor and his brother passed a soccer ball to each other 240 times in one minute while sitting.

Matrix Soccer and his friends completed 53 soccer ball passes in 24 seconds.

Matrix Soccer and his friends completed 104 soccer ball passes in one minute.

James Taylor performed 64 neck carousel rotations with a soccer ball in one minute.