Gareth Bale

Quality:

Gareth Bale - Welsh association football player. This person is the 541^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 869^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Gareth Bale” in English Wikipedia has 97 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 435 references and 24 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1801^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3727^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 869^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1584^th most popular in all topics.

The 1180^th most popular in AI.

The 541^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1630^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1289^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 4962^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Gareth Bale” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 29 authors in all languages (4962^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Gareth Bale”, its content was written by 1273 registered users of English Wikipedia (3727^th place) and edited by 6089 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1180^th place).

Gareth Bale is on the 869^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 541^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 982 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8868 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #40 in May 2013
• Global: #2 in September 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #70 in September 2013
• Global: #28 in September 2013

There are 52 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	Malay (ms) Gareth Bale		100
2	English (en) Gareth Bale		96.9736
3	Korean (ko) 가레스 베일		93.8462
4	Russian (ru) Бейл, Гарет		93.3126
5	Finnish (fi) Gareth Bale		91.2381
6	Vietnamese (vi) Gareth Bale		89.1705
7	Chinese (zh) 加雷斯·贝尔		88.2682
8	Indonesian (id) Gareth Bale		80.4027
9	Hungarian (hu) Gareth Bale		80.3979
10	German (de) Gareth Bale		79.3996

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Gareth Bale		35 084 617
2	Spanish (es) Gareth Bale		7 724 399
3	French (fr) Gareth Bale		4 719 103
4	Russian (ru) Бейл, Гарет		4 614 501
5	Italian (it) Gareth Bale		4 105 262
6	Japanese (ja) ガレス・ベイル		3 138 385
7	German (de) Gareth Bale		2 756 989
8	Portuguese (pt) Gareth Bale		2 630 519
9	Arabic (ar) غاريث بيل		1 776 034
10	Polish (pl) Gareth Bale		1 609 826

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) Gareth Bale		185 943
2	French (fr) Gareth Bale		28 300
3	Spanish (es) Gareth Bale		23 080
4	Japanese (ja) ガレス・ベイル		20 435
5	Russian (ru) Бейл, Гарет		15 683
6	German (de) Gareth Bale		12 952
7	Italian (it) Gareth Bale		11 314
8	Portuguese (pt) Gareth Bale		9 136
9	Persian (fa) گرت بیل		6 572
10	Chinese (zh) 加雷斯·贝尔		6 358

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Gareth Bale		1 273
2	Spanish (es) Gareth Bale		575
3	Italian (it) Gareth Bale		421
4	French (fr) Gareth Bale		417
5	Russian (ru) Бейл, Гарет		288
6	German (de) Gareth Bale		279
7	Portuguese (pt) Gareth Bale		248
8	Hebrew (he) גארת' בייל		207
9	Persian (fa) گرت بیل		206
10	Dutch (nl) Gareth Bale		161

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) Gareth Bale		7
2	Persian (fa) گرت بیل		4
3	Azerbaijani (az) Qaret Beyl		3
4	Vietnamese (vi) Gareth Bale		3
5	Hebrew (he) גארת' בייל		2
6	Urdu (ur) گیرتھ بیل		2
7	Arabic (ar) غاريث بيل		1
8	Catalan (ca) Gareth Bale		1
9	French (fr) Gareth Bale		1
10	Hungarian (hu) Gareth Bale		1

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