Association football

Quality:

Association football - sport that is practiced between two teams of eleven players. This event is the 4^th 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, 2025). The article contains 250 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 626^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 311^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

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

Global Wikipedia:

The 123^rd most popular in all topics.

The 59^th most popular in AI.

The 4^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1850^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 806^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 801^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Association football” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 69 authors in all languages (801^st place).

Since the creation of article “Association football”, its content was written by 2638 registered users of English Wikipedia (311^th place) and edited by 13898 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 4^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 272897 times in English Wikipedia (24^th place) and cited 1407298 times in all languages (54^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8 in November 2006
• Global: #10 in November 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #38 in June 2010
• Global: #26 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, 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	Norwegian (no) Fotball		100
2	Indonesian (id) Sepak bola		99.7069
3	Greek (el) Ποδόσφαιρο		98.9886
4	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		96.5222
5	Turkish (tr) Futbol		94.7198
6	English (en) Association football		94.4385
7	Finnish (fi) Jalkapallo		93.9139
8	Hebrew (he) כדורגל		93.7682
9	Persian (fa) فوتبال		93.6981
10	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		92.9698

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Association football		53 274 233
2	Spanish (es) Fútbol		41 054 595
3	Indonesian (id) Sepak bola		11 805 787
4	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		10 260 778
5	French (fr) Football		9 781 375
6	German (de) Fußball		8 788 704
7	Arabic (ar) كرة القدم		7 567 060
8	Russian (ru) Футбол		7 168 484
9	Japanese (ja) サッカー		6 693 020
10	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		6 472 573

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		187 275
2	Spanish (es) Fútbol		67 810
3	Russian (ru) Футбол		27 394
4	French (fr) Football		23 358
5	Arabic (ar) كرة القدم		18 533
6	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		18 185
7	German (de) Fußball		17 816
8	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		17 446
9	Indonesian (id) Sepak bola		14 035
10	Japanese (ja) サッカー		13 953

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		2 638
2	German (de) Fußball		898
3	French (fr) Football		783
4	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		741
5	Spanish (es) Fútbol		645
6	Swedish (sv) Fotboll		529
7	Norwegian (no) Fotball		440
8	Japanese (ja) サッカー		415
9	Dutch (nl) Voetbal		401
10	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		375

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	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		12
2	Japanese (ja) サッカー		11
3	English (en) Association football		7
4	Korean (ko) 축구		6
5	Swedish (sv) Fotboll		5
6	Romanian (ro) Fotbal		4
7	Norwegian (no) Fotball		3
8	Bulgarian (bg) Футбол		2
9	German (de) Fußball		2
10	Spanish (es) Fútbol		2

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

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