Association football

Quality:

Association football - sport that is practiced between two teams of eleven players. This event is the 3^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 15^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “Association football” in English Wikipedia has 94.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 247 references and 23 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 630^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 306^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 15^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 125^th most popular in all topics.

The 59^th most popular in AI.

The 3^rd most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 448^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 1402^nd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 378^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 715^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Association football” was edited by 19 authors in English Wikipedia (1402^nd place) and written by 74 authors in all languages (715^th place).

Since the creation of article “Association football”, its content was written by 2700 registered users of English Wikipedia (306^th place) and edited by 14038 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (59^th place).

Association football is on the 15^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 3^rd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 279624 times in English Wikipedia (18^th place) and cited 1450812 times in all languages (54^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7 in November 2006
• Global: #10 in November 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #39 in June 2010
• Global: #25 in June 2010

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	Norwegian (no) Fotball		100
2	Indonesian (id) Sepak bola		99.6405
3	Greek (el) Ποδόσφαιρο		99.0716
4	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		98.545
5	Romanian (ro) Fotbal		96.0965
6	Turkish (tr) Futbol		94.8188
7	English (en) Association football		94.4165
8	Finnish (fi) Jalkapallo		93.9312
9	Persian (fa) فوتبال		93.6381
10	French (fr) Football		92.8629

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Association football		55 463 201
2	Spanish (es) Fútbol		41 361 041
3	Indonesian (id) Sepak bola		11 944 439
4	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		10 425 549
5	French (fr) Football		9 991 194
6	German (de) Fußball		9 037 694
7	Russian (ru) Футбол		8 189 390
8	Arabic (ar) كرة القدم		7 963 099
9	Japanese (ja) サッカー		7 164 873
10	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		6 689 367

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) Association football		383 685
2	Spanish (es) Fútbol		62 388
3	German (de) Fußball		39 369
4	French (fr) Football		31 785
5	Japanese (ja) サッカー		31 440
6	Russian (ru) Футбол		23 993
7	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		18 662
8	Chinese (zh) 足球		16 745
9	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		12 497
10	Persian (fa) فوتبال		12 011

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Association football		2 700
2	German (de) Fußball		906
3	French (fr) Football		790
4	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		780
5	Spanish (es) Fútbol		651
6	Swedish (sv) Fotboll		530
7	Dutch (nl) Voetbal		439
8	Japanese (ja) サッカー		424
9	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		380
10	Turkish (tr) Futbol		365

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) Association football		19
2	German (de) Fußball		11
3	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		7
4	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		4
5	Simple English (simple) Association football		4
6	Catalan (ca) Futbol		2
7	Esperanto (eo) Futbalo		2
8	Persian (fa) فوتبال		2
9	Indonesian (id) Sepak bola		2
10	Korean (ko) 축구		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.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information