This adidas Football Boot Concept Weighs (Way) Less Than Your iPhone

Speed is becoming more and more important to the game of football as the sport continues to evolve. Players like Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal are consistently working on becoming faster, but brands like adidas are also evaluating their product lineup to innovate on ways to assist athletes in reaching top-speed.

Within the world of marathon racing, the Three Stripes has proven that its decades of expertise in performance products has paid off with the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3—an ultra-lightweight racer that assisted two men in running 26.2 miles in less than 2-hours in the same sanctioned marathon. The Adizero philosphy, which was born in running, has been applied to the adidas Football roster over the years, pushing the boundaries of weight across a series of speed-focused football boots. The F50 franchise is currently offers the brand's lightest designs, but the adidas Team is working on a new product that unlocks new territory: Adizero Crazylight Pro.

Unveiled during the brand's Home of Innovation summit at its World Headquarters in Germany on Sept. 25—the same event during which CLIMACOOL+ Slides and HYPERBOOST 360 concepts were previewed—the innovative adidas Football concept explores weight-reduction through new material application and manufacturing processes. Adizero Crazylight Pro currently weighs just 3.14 ounces (89 grams) which is less than the weight of an iPhone (or other popular smartphones).

At 3.14 ounces, adidas Football's Adizero Crazylight Pro takes the crown of lightest football boots ever, surpassing the Puma ULTRA SL Tech from 2021 (3.17oz) and adi's own Adizero 99g (3.49oz) from 2015.

"It's not just a dream—it's actually something we have out there...something that's been tested [with players in the field] four-plus months already," shared Hannes Shaefke, adidas Director of Concepts, Football Innovation, during the Home of Innovation summit.

To reduce weight, adidas designers have developed a new upper material that appears to be a mix of the HALOCAGE+ seen on the F50 HYPERFAST EVO and LIGHTLOCK 2.0 that appears on the Adios Pro 5 marathon racer. Furthermore, breakthroughs in sole plate technology have been most instrumental in the Adizero Crazylight Pro concept reaching such a light weight.

On this front, Shaefke mentioned that the innovative sole plate configurations found across different samples of the brand's lightest football boots have referenced "algorithms used in bridge-building architecture." These structures are coupled with advancements in 3D-printing to create different sole plate options in a manner that's faster and more easily tuned than those created through traditional manufacturing processes.

Up until now, you've read a bunch of words, but what do they all mean? Well, if you read this article's headline, Crazylight Pro weighs less than the smartphone you're currently reading this sentence on (approximately between 6oz and 8.47oz). Even when both individual boots are weighed together, they come in at an industry-disrupting 6.27oz (178g).

In terms of modern football boots, the adidas concept weighs less than the brand's marquee speed boot—F50 HYPERFAST EVO (4.58oz/130g)—as well as Nike's and PUMA's—Mercurial Vapor 17 (5.29oz/150g) and Ultra NITRO™ 7 (6.59oz/187g).

Historically, ultra-lightweight speed boots have run into durability issues. adidas is likely working on minimizing these problems with its conceptual offering through extensive wear-testing.

If Adizero Crazylight Pro (or another similar product) eventually releases to the public, it must meet the demands of the modern game across a wide range of footballers. Upper padding, heel lockdown, and plate responsiveness will be key in convincing savvy consumers in exchanging their boots of choice for a design that's zeroed-in on shedding weight.

The Three Stripes has proven itself before and it can certainly prove itself again.

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