Lionel Messi

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Lionel Messi - Argentine association football player (born 1987). This person is the 5^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 7^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. On English Wikipedia article about Lionel Messi recently has been very popular. Article “Lionel Messi” in English Wikipedia has 97.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 665 references and 33 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 18^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 181^st most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 7^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 13^th most popular in all topics.

The 17^th most popular in AI.

The 5^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 155^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 17^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Lionel Messi” was edited by 57 authors in English Wikipedia (155^th place) and written by 378 authors in all languages (17^th place).

Since the creation of article “Lionel Messi”, its content was written by 3038 registered users of English Wikipedia (181^st place) and edited by 18137 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (17^th place).

Lionel Messi is on the 7^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 5^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 3104 times in English Wikipedia and cited 30336 times in all languages (5595^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #40 in May 2010
• Global: #6 in December 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2 in December 2022
• Global: #2 in December 2022

There are 55 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	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		100
2	German (de) Lionel Messi		100
3	Russian (ru) Месси, Лионель		100
4	Vietnamese (vi) Lionel Messi		100
5	Finnish (fi) Lionel Messi		100
6	Hebrew (he) ליונל מסי		100
7	Greek (el) Λιονέλ Μέσι		100
8	Ukrainian (uk) Ліонель Мессі		100
9	Serbian (sr) Лионел Меси		100
10	Slovak (sk) Lionel Messi		100

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lionel Messi		182 232 069
2	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		63 934 128
3	French (fr) Lionel Messi		38 912 161
4	Russian (ru) Месси, Лионель		28 217 564
5	Italian (it) Lionel Messi		24 488 344
6	Portuguese (pt) Lionel Messi		17 143 753
7	German (de) Lionel Messi		16 174 327
8	Arabic (ar) ليونيل ميسي		15 576 114
9	Japanese (ja) リオネル・メッシ		13 417 416
10	Polish (pl) Lionel Messi		10 501 247

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) Lionel Messi		3 712 893
2	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		581 310
3	Japanese (ja) リオネル・メッシ		495 101
4	German (de) Lionel Messi		421 782
5	French (fr) Lionel Messi		388 030
6	Russian (ru) Месси, Лионель		296 657
7	Italian (it) Lionel Messi		245 925
8	Portuguese (pt) Lionel Messi		196 434
9	Chinese (zh) 利昂内尔·梅西		180 808
10	Polish (pl) Lionel Messi		103 820

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lionel Messi		3 038
2	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		1 379
3	French (fr) Lionel Messi		1 168
4	Italian (it) Lionel Messi		941
5	Turkish (tr) Lionel Messi		678
6	Russian (ru) Месси, Лионель		630
7	Persian (fa) لیونل مسی		596
8	German (de) Lionel Messi		580
9	Chinese (zh) 利昂内尔·梅西		576
10	Hebrew (he) ליונל מסי		574

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) Lionel Messi		57
2	French (fr) Lionel Messi		46
3	Spanish (es) Lionel Messi		35
4	Polish (pl) Lionel Messi		26
5	Greek (el) Λιονέλ Μέσι		20
6	Italian (it) Lionel Messi		16
7	Hebrew (he) ליונל מסי		14
8	German (de) Lionel Messi		13
9	Japanese (ja) リオネル・メッシ		13
10	Chinese (zh) 利昂内尔·梅西		13

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