Back-pass rule

Back-pass rule - association football rule. Article “Back-pass rule” in English Wikipedia has 23.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Back-pass rule”, its content was written by 107 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 224 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 41 times in English Wikipedia and cited 93 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #21159 in April 2016
• Global: #26479 in December 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #18230 in December 2022
• Global: #20199 in December 2022

There are 10 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	Turkish (tr) Geri pas kuralı		27.4819
2	English (en) Back-pass rule		23.9001
3	Arabic (ar) قاعدة التمريرة الخلفية		23.5898
4	Romanian (ro) Regula pasei la portar		21.2527
5	Swedish (sv) Bakåtpassningsregel (fotboll)		20.1906
6	Catalan (ca) Cessió (futbol)		16.012
7	Spanish (es) Cesión (regla de fútbol)		15.5385
8	German (de) Rückpassregel		14.602
9	Japanese (ja) バックパス・ルール		9.044
10	Galician (gl) Cesión (regra do fútbol)		0.2265

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Back-pass rule" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Back-pass rule		1 433 090
2	German (de) Rückpassregel		562 224
3	Spanish (es) Cesión (regla de fútbol)		316 559
4	Japanese (ja) バックパス・ルール		205 790
5	Swedish (sv) Bakåtpassningsregel (fotboll)		54 334
6	Arabic (ar) قاعدة التمريرة الخلفية		46 660
7	Turkish (tr) Geri pas kuralı		9 682
8	Catalan (ca) Cessió (futbol)		1 272
9	Galician (gl) Cesión (regra do fútbol)		807
10	Romanian (ro) Regula pasei la portar		195

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Back-pass rule" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Back-pass rule		6 174
2	German (de) Rückpassregel		1 098
3	Spanish (es) Cesión (regla de fútbol)		655
4	Japanese (ja) バックパス・ルール		374
5	Turkish (tr) Geri pas kuralı		312
6	Arabic (ar) قاعدة التمريرة الخلفية		250
7	Swedish (sv) Bakåtpassningsregel (fotboll)		199
8	Romanian (ro) Regula pasei la portar		44
9	Galician (gl) Cesión (regra do fútbol)		15
10	Catalan (ca) Cessió (futbol)		14

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

Language versions of the article "Back-pass rule" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Back-pass rule		107
2	German (de) Rückpassregel		67
3	Spanish (es) Cesión (regla de fútbol)		25
4	Swedish (sv) Bakåtpassningsregel (fotboll)		9
5	Galician (gl) Cesión (regra do fútbol)		5
6	Japanese (ja) バックパス・ルール		4
7	Arabic (ar) قاعدة التمريرة الخلفية		3
8	Catalan (ca) Cessió (futbol)		2
9	Romanian (ro) Regula pasei la portar		1
10	Turkish (tr) Geri pas kuralı		1

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

Language versions of the article "Back-pass rule" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) قاعدة التمريرة الخلفية		0
2	Catalan (ca) Cessió (futbol)		0
3	German (de) Rückpassregel		0
4	English (en) Back-pass rule		0
5	Spanish (es) Cesión (regla de fútbol)		0
6	Galician (gl) Cesión (regra do fútbol)		0
7	Japanese (ja) バックパス・ルール		0
8	Romanian (ro) Regula pasei la portar		0
9	Swedish (sv) Bakåtpassningsregel (fotboll)		0
10	Turkish (tr) Geri pas kuralı		0

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

Language versions of the article "Back-pass rule" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Back-pass rule		41
2	German (de) Rückpassregel		26
3	Japanese (ja) バックパス・ルール		9
4	Spanish (es) Cesión (regla de fútbol)		7
5	Catalan (ca) Cessió (futbol)		3
6	Galician (gl) Cesión (regra do fútbol)		2
7	Romanian (ro) Regula pasei la portar		2
8	Swedish (sv) Bakåtpassningsregel (fotboll)		2
9	Turkish (tr) Geri pas kuralı		1
10	Arabic (ar) قاعدة التمريرة الخلفية		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قاعدة التمريرة الخلفية
ca	Catalan Cessió (futbol)
de	German Rückpassregel
en	English Back-pass rule
es	Spanish Cesión (regla de fútbol)
gl	Galician Cesión (regra do fútbol)
ja	Japanese バックパス・ルール
ro	Romanian Regula pasei la portar
sv	Swedish Bakåtpassningsregel (fotboll)
tr	Turkish Geri pas kuralı

Best Rank

English: #18230 12.2022

Global: #20199 12.2022

Best Rank

English: #21159 04.2016

Global: #26479 12.2022

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