Long ball

Long ball - Association football term. Article “Long ball” in English Wikipedia has 39.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 32 references and 7 sections.

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 “Long ball”, its content was written by 121 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 182 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 106 times in English Wikipedia and cited 193 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #16082 in May 2019
• Global: #80383 in May 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #127353 in June 2010
• Global: #102778 in June 2010

There are 7 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) Long ball		39.4352
2	Korean (ko) 롱볼		30.0352
3	Japanese (ja) キック・アンド・ラッシュ		26.3285
4	Polish (pl) Wrzutka (piłka nożna)		25.1606
5	Portuguese (pt) Long Ball		20.7219
6	German (de) Kick and Rush		15.0703
7	Chinese (zh) 長傳急攻		5.4872

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Long ball		411 661
2	German (de) Kick and Rush		128 807
3	Japanese (ja) キック・アンド・ラッシュ		70 642
4	Chinese (zh) 長傳急攻		20 820
5	Portuguese (pt) Long Ball		3 592
6	Polish (pl) Wrzutka (piłka nożna)		2 363
7	Korean (ko) 롱볼		1 308

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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 "Long ball" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Long ball		1 578
2	Japanese (ja) キック・アンド・ラッシュ		266
3	German (de) Kick and Rush		141
4	Chinese (zh) 長傳急攻		91
5	Polish (pl) Wrzutka (piłka nożna)		36
6	Korean (ko) 롱볼		23
7	Portuguese (pt) Long Ball		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 "Long ball" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Long ball		121
2	German (de) Kick and Rush		32
3	Chinese (zh) 長傳急攻		10
4	Japanese (ja) キック・アンド・ラッシュ		9
5	Polish (pl) Wrzutka (piłka nożna)		5
6	Korean (ko) 롱볼		3
7	Portuguese (pt) Long Ball		2

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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 "Long ball" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Kick and Rush		0
2	English (en) Long ball		0
3	Japanese (ja) キック・アンド・ラッシュ		0
4	Korean (ko) 롱볼		0
5	Polish (pl) Wrzutka (piłka nożna)		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Long Ball		0
7	Chinese (zh) 長傳急攻		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 "Long ball" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Long ball		106
2	Japanese (ja) キック・アンド・ラッシュ		43
3	Portuguese (pt) Long Ball		17
4	German (de) Kick and Rush		16
5	Chinese (zh) 長傳急攻		5
6	Korean (ko) 롱볼		3
7	Polish (pl) Wrzutka (piłka nożna)		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Kick and Rush
en	English Long ball
ja	Japanese キック・アンド・ラッシュ
ko	Korean 롱볼
pl	Polish Wrzutka (piłka nożna)
pt	Portuguese Long Ball
zh	Chinese 長傳急攻

Best Rank

English: #127353 06.2010

Global: #102778 06.2010

Best Rank

English: #16082 05.2019

Global: #80383 05.2019

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