Handball

Quality:

Handball - team sport played with a thrown ball and goals. This event is the 48^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 66^th most popular event in German Wikipedia. Article “Handball” in German Wikipedia has 67.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 19 references and 35 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

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The 2856^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

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The 1995^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 66^th most popular in events in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1751^st most popular in all topics.

The 1694^th most popular in AI.

The 48^th most popular in events.

In June 2026 the article “Handball” was edited by 1 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Handball”, its content was written by 501 registered users of German Wikipedia (1995^th place) and edited by 5383 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1694^th place).

Handball is on the 66^th place in local ranking of events in German Wikipedia and on the 48^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 11781 times in German Wikipedia (511^th place) and cited 102289 times in all languages (1368^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #21 in February 2007
• Global: #240 in November 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #45 in January 2016
• Global: #201 in August 2016

There are 53 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	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		87.796
2	Chinese (zh) 手球		74.0595
3	English (en) Handball		72.9642
4	German (de) Handball		67.7162
5	French (fr) Handball		65.5057
6	Catalan (ca) Handbol		61.9092
7	Dutch (nl) Handbal		55.3336
8	Spanish (es) Balonmano		50.2234
9	Finnish (fi) Käsipallo		47.392
10	Russian (ru) Гандбол		46.836

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Balonmano		15 224 205
2	English (en) Handball		12 621 736
3	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		7 042 108
4	French (fr) Handball		5 804 515
5	Arabic (ar) كرة اليد		4 709 356
6	German (de) Handball		4 662 990
7	Russian (ru) Гандбол		3 090 073
8	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		2 778 662
9	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		2 088 554
10	Italian (it) Pallamano		1 534 504

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) Handball		30 200
2	Spanish (es) Balonmano		9 267
3	German (de) Handball		5 447
4	Russian (ru) Гандбол		5 148
5	French (fr) Handball		4 501
6	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		4 167
7	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		2 312
8	Chinese (zh) 手球		2 035
9	Italian (it) Pallamano		1 850
10	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		1 696

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Handball		904
2	German (de) Handball		501
3	French (fr) Handball		472
4	Spanish (es) Balonmano		402
5	Italian (it) Pallamano		303
6	Portuguese (pt) Andebol		220
7	Polish (pl) Piłka ręczna		199
8	Dutch (nl) Handbal		184
9	Swedish (sv) Handboll		146
10	Norwegian (no) Håndball		144

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	Catalan (ca) Handbol		2
2	German (de) Handball		1
3	Hebrew (he) כדוריד		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Kézilabda		1
5	Italian (it) Pallamano		1
6	Japanese (ja) ハンドボール		1
7	Dutch (nl) Handbal		1
8	Chinese (zh) 手球		1
9	Arabic (ar) كرة اليد		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Həndbol		0

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.

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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