Goaltender

Goaltender - person who blocks the goal in ice hockey. Article “Goaltender” in English Wikipedia has 81.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 81 references and 33 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Goaltender” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Goaltender”, its content was written by 444 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 669 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6553 times in English Wikipedia (3279^th place) and cited 11849 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6371 in December 2005
• Global: #20274 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29974 in May 2010
• Global: #45932 in May 2010

There are 17 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	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		91.5892
2	English (en) Goaltender		81.2286
3	Hebrew (he) שוער (הוקי קרח)		53.7556
4	Ukrainian (uk) Воротар (хокей із шайбою)		33.5448
5	Croatian (hr) Hokejski vratar		30.7417
6	Swedish (sv) Målvakt (ishockey)		17.6234
7	Turkish (tr) Kaleci (buz hokeyi)		16.8518
8	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		15.6563
9	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		13.0531
10	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		9.085

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Goaltender" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Goaltender		1 860 676
2	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		251 651
3	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		105 934
4	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		48 092
5	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		43 660
6	Swedish (sv) Målvakt (ishockey)		21 527
7	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		20 402
8	Slovak (sk) Brankár (ľadový hokej)		15 624
9	Simple English (simple) Goaltender		10 662
10	Croatian (hr) Hokejski vratar		8 878

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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 "Goaltender" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Goaltender		9 770
2	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		352
3	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		294
4	Simple English (simple) Goaltender		287
5	Chinese (zh) 守門員 (冰球)		87
6	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		72
7	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		61
8	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		60
9	Slovenian (sl) Vratar (hokej na ledu)		26
10	Korean (ko) 골텐더		23

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Goaltender		444
2	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		64
3	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		30
4	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		22
5	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		17
6	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		17
7	Slovak (sk) Brankár (ľadový hokej)		15
8	Simple English (simple) Goaltender		14
9	Swedish (sv) Målvakt (ishockey)		11
10	Croatian (hr) Hokejski vratar		8

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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 "Goaltender" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Goaltender		4
2	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		1
3	Belarusian (be) Варатар (хакей)		0
4	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		0
5	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		0
6	Hebrew (he) שוער (הוקי קרח)		0
7	Croatian (hr) Hokejski vratar		0
8	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		0
9	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		0
10	Korean (ko) 골텐더		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 "Goaltender" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Goaltender		6 553
2	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		1 812
3	Swedish (sv) Målvakt (ishockey)		1 054
4	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		489
5	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		412
6	Ukrainian (uk) Воротар (хокей із шайбою)		316
7	Simple English (simple) Goaltender		298
8	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		246
9	Slovenian (sl) Vratar (hokej na ledu)		231
10	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		194

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian Варатар (хакей)
cs	Czech Brankář (lední hokej)
de	German Eishockeytorwart
en	English Goaltender
fi	Finnish Maalivahti (jääkiekko)
he	Hebrew שוער (הוקי קרח)
hr	Croatian Hokejski vratar
it	Italian Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)
ja	Japanese ゴールテンダー
ko	Korean 골텐더
simple	Simple English Goaltender
sk	Slovak Brankár (ľadový hokej)
sl	Slovenian Vratar (hokej na ledu)
sv	Swedish Målvakt (ishockey)
tr	Turkish Kaleci (buz hokeyi)
uk	Ukrainian Воротар (хокей із шайбою)
zh	Chinese 守門員 (冰球)

Best Rank

English: #29974 05.2010

Global: #45932 05.2010

Best Rank

English: #6371 12.2005

Global: #20274 12.2009

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