2002 FIFA World Cup

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2002 FIFA World Cup - 17th FIFA World Cup, held in South Korea and Japan. This event is the 48^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 68^th most popular event in English Wikipedia. Article “2002 FIFA World Cup” in English Wikipedia has 87.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 128 references and 44 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3454^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 6078^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 68^th most popular in events in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1844^th most popular in all topics.

The 1986^th most popular in AI.

The 48^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5051^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2359^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “2002 FIFA World Cup” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “2002 FIFA World Cup”, its content was written by 1027 registered users of English Wikipedia (6078^th place) and edited by 5046 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1986^th place).

2002 FIFA World Cup is on the 68^th place in local ranking of events in English Wikipedia and on the 48^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 3933 times in English Wikipedia (6540^th place) and cited 46844 times in all languages (3402^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in June 2002
• Global: #1 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #38 in June 2014
• Global: #18 in June 2014

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, 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	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2002		93.5751
2	English (en) 2002 FIFA World Cup		87.7116
3	Korean (ko) 2002년 FIFA 월드컵		76.1997
4	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2002		73.759
5	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2002		70.3116
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2002		70.2294
7	Catalan (ca) Copa del Món de Futbol de 2002		69.9384
8	Hungarian (hu) 2002-es labdarúgó-világbajnokság		68.6369
9	Indonesian (id) Piala Dunia FIFA 2002		66.3438
10	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2002		64.9347

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2002 FIFA World Cup		24 609 490
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2002		7 620 942
3	Japanese (ja) 2002 FIFAワールドカップ		5 246 395
4	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2002		4 577 469
5	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2002		3 747 691
6	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2002		3 638 400
7	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2002		3 360 584
8	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2002		3 229 017
9	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 2002		1 952 816
10	Turkish (tr) 2002 FIFA Dünya Kupası		1 376 931

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) 2002 FIFA World Cup		103 796
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2002		31 377
3	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2002		18 005
4	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2002		15 697
5	Japanese (ja) 2002 FIFAワールドカップ		15 057
6	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2002		14 275
7	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2002		13 191
8	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2002		11 895
9	Turkish (tr) 2002 FIFA Dünya Kupası		6 226
10	Chinese (zh) 2002年國際足協世界盃		6 115

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2002 FIFA World Cup		1 027
2	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2002		382
3	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2002		324
4	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 2002		322
5	Japanese (ja) 2002 FIFAワールドカップ		321
6	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 2002		266
7	Korean (ko) 2002년 FIFA 월드컵		264
8	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2002		191
9	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2002		166
10	Chinese (zh) 2002年國際足協世界盃		164

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) 2002 FIFA World Cup		6
2	Korean (ko) 2002년 FIFA 월드컵		2
3	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2002		2
4	Turkish (tr) 2002 FIFA Dünya Kupası		2
5	Chinese (zh) 2002年國際足協世界盃		2
6	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 2002		1
7	Hungarian (hu) 2002-es labdarúgó-világbajnokság		1
8	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 2002		1
9	Japanese (ja) 2002 FIFAワールドカップ		1
10	Simple English (simple) 2002 FIFA World Cup		1

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

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