Golden goal

Quality:

Golden goal - rule used in association football, bandy, lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey and korfball to decide the winner of a match in which scores are equal at the end of normal time. Article “Golden goal” in English Wikipedia has 35.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 18 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.85 points.

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

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9691^st most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9109^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Golden goal” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Golden goal”, its content was written by 244 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1075 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1035 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4617 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #437 in June 2002
• Global: #50 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4179 in June 2010
• Global: #2198 in July 2018

There are 39 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	Chinese (zh) 黃金入球		43.5873
2	English (en) Golden goal		35.2217
3	Korean (ko) 골든골		26.3451
4	Dutch (nl) Golden goal		24.0106
5	Italian (it) Golden goal		20.2659
6	German (de) Golden Goal		18.163
7	Arabic (ar) هدف ذهبي		18.1154
8	Turkish (tr) Altın gol		17.7516
9	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンゴール		17.4574
10	Ukrainian (uk) Золотий гол		16.7967

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Golden goal		2 469 008
2	German (de) Golden Goal		1 005 907
3	Spanish (es) Gol de oro		486 015
4	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンゴール		431 119
5	Italian (it) Golden goal		354 055
6	Russian (ru) Золотой гол		348 259
7	Portuguese (pt) Morte súbita (futebol)		249 078
8	French (fr) But en or		202 288
9	Polish (pl) Złoty gol		185 174
10	Chinese (zh) 黃金入球		119 247

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) Golden goal		61 137
2	German (de) Golden Goal		14 704
3	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンゴール		5 080
4	French (fr) But en or		4 768
5	Spanish (es) Gol de oro		4 388
6	Portuguese (pt) Morte súbita (futebol)		2 638
7	Italian (it) Golden goal		2 141
8	Russian (ru) Золотой гол		1 968
9	Turkish (tr) Altın gol		1 875
10	Chinese (zh) 黃金入球		1 785

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Golden goal		244
2	German (de) Golden Goal		123
3	Italian (it) Golden goal		80
4	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンゴール		64
5	Dutch (nl) Golden goal		55
6	Vietnamese (vi) Bàn thắng vàng		47
7	Spanish (es) Gol de oro		44
8	Hebrew (he) שער הזהב (כדורגל)		37
9	Russian (ru) Золотой гол		37
10	Chinese (zh) 黃金入球		33

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) Golden goal		4
2	Basque (eu) Urrezko gola		2
3	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンゴール		2
4	German (de) Golden Goal		1
5	French (fr) But en or		1
6	Hebrew (he) שער הזהב (כדורגל)		1
7	Italian (it) Golden goal		1
8	Lithuanian (lt) Auksinio įvarčio taisyklė		1
9	Chinese (zh) 黃金入球		1
10	Arabic (ar) هدف ذهبي		0

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

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