Goaltender

Goaltender - person who blocks the goal in ice hockey. Article “Goaltender” in English Wikipedia has 81.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 85 references and 36 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Goaltender” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Goaltender”, its content was written by 459 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 704 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6755 times in English Wikipedia (3269^th place) and cited 12578 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6373 in December 2005
• Global: #20286 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #30111 in May 2010
• Global: #46127 in May 2010

There are 18 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	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		90.9792
2	English (en) Goaltender		81.755
3	Hebrew (he) שוער (הוקי קרח)		52.1735
4	Ukrainian (uk) Воротар (хокей із шайбою)		32.5448
5	Croatian (hr) Hokejski vratar		30.6982
6	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		19.5712
7	Swedish (sv) Målvakt (ishockey)		17.2249
8	Estonian (et) Väravavaht (jäähoki)		16.9799
9	Turkish (tr) Kaleci (buz hokeyi)		16.1503
10	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		12.8665

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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		1 951 852
2	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		260 517
3	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		112 827
4	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		50 022
5	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		45 613
6	Swedish (sv) Målvakt (ishockey)		22 776
7	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		21 811
8	Slovak (sk) Brankár (ľadový hokej)		16 051
9	Simple English (simple) Goaltender		10 748
10	Croatian (hr) Hokejski vratar		9 093

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Goaltender		8 281
2	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		402
3	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		399
4	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		128
5	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		100
6	Chinese (zh) 守門員 (冰球)		76
7	Swedish (sv) Målvakt (ishockey)		52
8	Korean (ko) 골텐더		44
9	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		43
10	Slovak (sk) Brankár (ľadový hokej)		32

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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		459
2	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		65
3	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		33
4	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		25
5	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		18
6	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		17
7	Slovak (sk) Brankár (ľadový hokej)		16
8	Simple English (simple) Goaltender		15
9	Swedish (sv) Målvakt (ishockey)		11
10	Hebrew (he) שוער (הוקי קרח)		9

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Goaltender		3
2	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		2
3	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		1
4	Slovak (sk) Brankár (ľadový hokej)		1
5	Belarusian (be) Варатар (хакей)		0
6	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		0
7	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		0
8	Estonian (et) Väravavaht (jäähoki)		0
9	Hebrew (he) שוער (הוקי קרח)		0
10	Croatian (hr) Hokejski vratar		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		6 755
2	German (de) Eishockeytorwart		1 831
3	Swedish (sv) Målvakt (ishockey)		1 094
4	Italian (it) Portiere (hockey su ghiaccio)		520
5	Czech (cs) Brankář (lední hokej)		445
6	Ukrainian (uk) Воротар (хокей із шайбою)		366
7	Simple English (simple) Goaltender		365
8	Japanese (ja) ゴールテンダー		265
9	Finnish (fi) Maalivahti (jääkiekko)		250
10	Slovenian (sl) Vratar (hokej na ledu)		230

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian Варатар (хакей)
cs	Czech Brankář (lední hokej)
de	German Eishockeytorwart
en	English Goaltender
et	Estonian Väravavaht (jäähoki)
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: #30111 05.2010

Global: #46127 05.2010

Best Rank

English: #6373 12.2005

Global: #20286 12.2009

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