1982 FIFA World Cup

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1982 FIFA World Cup - 12th FIFA World Cup, held in Spain. This event is the 163^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 299^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “1982 FIFA World Cup” in English Wikipedia has 71 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 44 references and 44 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 299^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7425^th most popular in all topics.

The 7722^nd most popular in AI.

The 163^rd most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7210^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “1982 FIFA World Cup” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “1982 FIFA World Cup”, its content was written by 518 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2871 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7722^nd place).

1982 FIFA World Cup is on the 299^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 163^rd place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 2665 times in English Wikipedia and cited 29637 times in all languages (5546^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #879 in December 2022
• Global: #350 in June 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #217 in June 2014
• Global: #122 in June 2014

There are 50 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, 2025 (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	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1982		92.6476
2	Greek (el) Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Ποδοσφαίρου 1982		75.7981
3	English (en) 1982 FIFA World Cup		70.9964
4	Korean (ko) 1982년 FIFA 월드컵		70.148
5	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1982		64.339
6	Malay (ms) Piala Dunia FIFA 1982		61.8321
7	Hungarian (hu) 1982-es labdarúgó-világbajnokság		61.6239
8	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1982		60
9	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1982		56.7263
10	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1982		55.5304

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1982 FIFA World Cup		9 941 321
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1982		4 840 928
3	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1982		3 734 921
4	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1982		2 191 997
5	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1982		2 176 685
6	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1982		2 075 432
7	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1982		1 529 332
8	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1982		1 367 323
9	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 1982		768 443
10	Japanese (ja) 1982 FIFAワールドカップ		625 160

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) 1982 FIFA World Cup		45 598
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1982		23 223
3	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1982		15 622
4	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1982		8 574
5	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1982		8 326
6	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1982		8 159
7	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1982		7 002
8	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1982		6 300
9	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 1982		3 189
10	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۱۹۸۲		2 272

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1982 FIFA World Cup		518
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1982		279
3	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1982		257
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1982		228
5	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1982		218
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1982		125
7	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1982		122
8	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1982		89
9	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1982		89
10	Hebrew (he) מונדיאל 1982		58

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) 1982 FIFA World Cup		3
2	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1982		2
3	Korean (ko) 1982년 FIFA 월드컵		2
4	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 1982		1
5	Azerbaijani (az) 1982 FİFA Dünya Kuboku		1
6	Catalan (ca) Copa del Món de Futbol de 1982		1
7	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1982		1
8	Greek (el) Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Ποδοσφαίρου 1982		1
9	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1982		1
10	Japanese (ja) 1982 FIFAワールドカップ		1

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

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