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 35.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 18 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.86 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Golden goal”, its content was written by 238 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1065 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1024 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4477 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #438 in June 2002
• Global: #50 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4154 in June 2010
• Global: #2200 in July 2018

There are 38 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	English (en) Golden goal		35.3335
2	Italian (it) Golden goal		20.4304
3	German (de) Golden Goal		18.4244
4	Arabic (ar) هدف ذهبي		18.185
5	Ukrainian (uk) Золотий гол		17.9082
6	Bulgarian (bg) Златен гол		17.8723
7	Turkish (tr) Altın gol		17.6966
8	Lithuanian (lt) Auksinio įvarčio taisyklė		16.3378
9	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンゴール		15.8831
10	Romanian (ro) Golul de aur		15.3446

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Golden goal		2 328 681
2	German (de) Golden Goal		972 938
3	Spanish (es) Gol de oro		471 589
4	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンゴール		413 541
5	Italian (it) Golden goal		343 421
6	Russian (ru) Золотой гол		332 778
7	Portuguese (pt) Morte súbita (futebol)		240 859
8	French (fr) But en or		187 865
9	Polish (pl) Złoty gol		181 177
10	Chinese (zh) 黃金入球		113 935

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		9 959
2	German (de) Golden Goal		1 721
3	Portuguese (pt) Morte súbita (futebol)		1 452
4	Italian (it) Golden goal		1 301
5	Spanish (es) Gol de oro		1 196
6	French (fr) But en or		1 138
7	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンゴール		1 066
8	Russian (ru) Золотой гол		901
9	Turkish (tr) Altın gol		620
10	Hebrew (he) שער הזהב (כדורגל)		516

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		238
2	German (de) Golden Goal		121
3	Italian (it) Golden goal		80
4	Japanese (ja) ゴールデンゴール		62
5	Dutch (nl) Golden goal		52
6	Vietnamese (vi) Bàn thắng vàng		47
7	Spanish (es) Gol de oro		43
8	Hebrew (he) שער הזהב (כדורגל)		37
9	Russian (ru) Золотой гол		37
10	Norwegian (no) Golden goal		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	Spanish (es) Gol de oro		1
2	French (fr) But en or		1
3	Arabic (ar) هدف ذهبي		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Златен гол		0
5	Catalan (ca) Gol d'or		0
6	Czech (cs) Zlatý gól		0
7	Danish (da) Golden goal		0
8	German (de) Golden Goal		0
9	Greek (el) Χρυσό γκολ		0
10	English (en) Golden goal		0

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

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