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German multinational clothing and apparel corporation
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| 2025 | The modernized +Teamgeist was used during the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League second-leg quarterfinal match between Spain and The Netherlands. The match ball's colorway matched the original +Teamgeist, but the panel design was derived from the Adidas Fussballliebe, the official match ball of UEFA Euro 2024. |
| March 2025 | Adidas released a limited edition remake of the +Teamgeist 2006 FIFA World Cup match ball, accompanied by matching limited edition Adidas Predator football boots in the same colorway. |
| November 22 2024 | Adidas Samba collaboration with BSTN 'Consortium Cup' released |
| May 21 2024 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Grace Wales Bonner released |
| May 10 2024 | Dingyun Zhang's first Adidas Samba collaboration will be available for purchase, marking a unique partnership between the designer and Adidas. |
| April 2024 | UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized for wearing Samba trainers, leading to a reported 11% decline in Samba sales in Britain. |
| March 30 2024 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Dover Street Market released |
| February 10 2024 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Kader Sylla released |
| January 17 2024 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Fucking Awesome released |
| December 25 2023 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Kith x Clarks released |
| November 22 2023 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Extra Butter released |
| November 15 2023 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Sneaker Politics 'Consortium Cup' released |
| November 15 2023 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Sean Wotherspoon released |
| November 10 2023 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Sporty & Rich released |
| November 3 2023 | Adidas Samba collaboration with 'Humanrace' by Pharrell Williams released |
| October 27 2023 | Adidas launched a special project with Korn, releasing unique versions of the 'Campus 00s' and 'Supermodified' shoes, along with accompanying apparel. |
| April 27 2023 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Disney released |
| February 25 2023 | Adidas collaborated with Bad Bunny to release a special design of the 'Campus 80s' shoe. |
| February 3 2023 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Plug Palace released |
| 2022 | Forward Sports manufactured 5.5 million Al Rihla footballs, including 60,000 high-quality replicas used by teams for training in Qatar, providing 35% of the total World Cup match balls. |
| 2022 | The Al Rihla became the official match ball for the Saudi Professional League and Qatar Stars League for the 2022-23 season. |
| 2022 | Adidas released the Campus 00s, a chunkier version of the Campus shoe inspired by the design aesthetic of 2000s lifestyle and skateboarding shoes. The redesign featured enhanced suede quality, a bigger sole and upper, wider laces, and a broader 3-stripe design. |
| December 11 2022 | Adidas announced the Al Hilm match ball for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Final, a special variation of the Al Rihla ball with a gold, maroon, burgundy, and red design representing Qatar's national colors. |
| November 19 2022 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Atmos x Face released |
| October 15 2022 | A SpaceX Falcon 9 mission (Eutelsat Hotbird 13F) launched with a special FIFA promotional payload containing two Adidas Al Rihla footballs intended for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. |
| October 12 2022 | Adidas Samba collaboration with IRAK released |
| June 7 2022 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Gucci released |
| April 9 2022 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Jason Dill released |
| March 30 2022 | Adidas officially unveiled the Al Rihla World Cup football in a presentation in Qatar, featuring former World Cup winners Kaká and Iker Casillas, along with Farah Jefry and Nouf Al Anzi. |
| August 1 2021 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Ajax x Bob Marley released |
| April 20 2021 | Adidas released the 'Campus 80s Towelie' shoe, a collaboration with South Park, featuring a purple terry cloth upper and UV-sensitive eyes. |
| March 16 2021 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Maite released |
| November 20 2020 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Wales Bonner released |
| November 14 2020 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Jonah Hill released |
| May 31 2019 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Oyster Holdings released |
| April 27 2019 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Pleasures released |
| February 15 2019 | Adidas Samba collaboration with Fiorucci released |
| 2018 | A new version called Telstar 18 was the official match ball for the FIFA World Cup, maintaining the general pattern but with pixellated gradient corners on the pentagons. |
| 2018 | Two significant Samba model introductions: the Samba Recon LT launched to coincide with the FIFA World Cup in Russia, and the Samba Rose was introduced as a women's-sized model with a textured platform midsole. |
| 2017 | Adidas launched the Samba ADV model, specifically designed to cater to the skateboarding market. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Adidas Samba, Adidas Telstar, Adidas Al Rihla, Adidas Campus & Adidas Teamgeist, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.