2018 FIFA World Cup

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2018 FIFA World Cup - 21st FIFA World Cup, held in Russia. This event is the 7^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 5^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. On English Wikipedia article about 2018 FIFA World Cup recently has been very popular. Article “2018 FIFA World Cup” in English Wikipedia has 91.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 271 references and 60 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 246^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 3327^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 5^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 184^th most popular in all topics.

The 748^th most popular in AI.

The 7^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 52^nd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 450^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 27^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 474^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “2018 FIFA World Cup” was edited by 34 authors in English Wikipedia (450^th place) and written by 89 authors in all languages (474^th place).

Since the creation of article “2018 FIFA World Cup”, its content was written by 1332 registered users of English Wikipedia (3327^th place) and edited by 7135 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (748^th place).

2018 FIFA World Cup is on the 5^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 7^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 5682 times in English Wikipedia (4116^th place) and cited 57199 times in all languages (2923^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in June 2018
• Global: #1 in July 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1 in July 2018
• Global: #1 in June 2018

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		100
2	Hungarian (hu) 2018-as labdarúgó-világbajnokság		100
3	Malay (ms) Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		100
4	Tamil (ta) 2018 உலகக்கோப்பை காற்பந்து		100
5	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2018		100
6	Indonesian (id) Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		99.4001
7	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ		97.1033
8	Vietnamese (vi) Giải vô địch bóng đá thế giới 2018		96.8579
9	Catalan (ca) Copa del Món de Futbol de 2018		94.8702
10	Korean (ko) 2018년 FIFA 월드컵		93.9254

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		79 171 678
2	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		18 295 121
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		17 571 984
4	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		10 836 520
5	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		10 301 062
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		7 182 342
7	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		6 630 341
8	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		5 803 671
9	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ		4 995 778
10	Chinese (zh) 2018年國際足協世界盃		4 716 147

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		1 424 132
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		273 195
3	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		226 147
4	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		180 241
5	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		132 637
6	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ		119 505
7	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		103 263
8	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		71 866
9	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۲۰۱۸		62 628
10	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		58 717

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		1 332
2	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		697
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		596
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		529
5	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		508
6	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		418
7	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2018		245
8	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2018		241
9	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018		219
10	Chinese (zh) 2018年國際足協世界盃		211

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup		34
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2018		10
3	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018		6
4	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2018		6
5	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2018		5
6	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2018		3
7	Hungarian (hu) 2018-as labdarúgó-világbajnokság		3
8	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018		3
9	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۲۰۱۸		2
10	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ		2

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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