Football

Quality:

Football - family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal and played on foot, as opposed to on horseback in polo. Article “Football” in English Wikipedia has 92.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 232 references and 35 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2737^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 999^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8254^th most popular in all topics.

The 9734^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4384^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8369^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Football” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Football”, its content was written by 1957 registered users of English Wikipedia (999^th place) and edited by 2601 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9734^th place).

The article is cited 921 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3294 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #24 in February 2007
• Global: #225 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #452 in June 2014
• Global: #1433 in December 2022

There are 24 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	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		100
2	Arabic (ar) كرة قدم جماعية		95.7542
3	Serbian (sr) Фудбал (група спортова)		95.22
4	Vietnamese (vi) Bóng đá (nhóm thể thao)		93.322
5	English (en) Football		92.1388
6	Japanese (ja) フットボール		74.1084
7	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		48.3957
8	Greek (el) Ποδοσφαιρικά αθλήματα		36.3189
9	Latin (la) Harpastum		35.902
10	Lithuanian (lt) Futbolo rūšys		35.1043

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Football		28 853 549
2	Japanese (ja) フットボール		862 101
3	Simple English (simple) Football		610 442
4	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		481 405
5	German (de) Football (Sportart)		397 360
6	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		230 071
7	Russian (ru) Разновидности футбола		144 556
8	Polish (pl) Futbol		122 816
9	Korean (ko) 풋볼		69 572
10	Persian (fa) ورزش فوتبال		54 101

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) Football		102 227
2	Japanese (ja) フットボール		4 424
3	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		1 258
4	Simple English (simple) Football		1 029
5	German (de) Football (Sportart)		893
6	Polish (pl) Futbol		702
7	Russian (ru) Разновидности футбола		519
8	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		356
9	Persian (fa) ورزش فوتبال		255
10	Chinese (zh) 足球類運動		255

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Football		1 957
2	Simple English (simple) Football		174
3	Japanese (ja) フットボール		93
4	German (de) Football (Sportart)		79
5	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		55
6	Latin (la) Harpastum		35
7	Russian (ru) Разновидности футбола		29
8	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		23
9	Polish (pl) Futbol		22
10	Ukrainian (uk) Різновиди футболу		19

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) Football		5
2	Serbian (sr) Фудбал (група спортова)		3
3	German (de) Football (Sportart)		1
4	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		1
5	Arabic (ar) كرة قدم جماعية		0
6	Catalan (ca) Futbol (homonímia)		0
7	Danish (da) Football		0
8	Greek (el) Ποδοσφαιρικά αθλήματα		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Piedpilkado		0
10	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		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.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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