Substitute (association football)

Substitute - replacement player in association football (soccer). Article “Substitute (association football)” in English Wikipedia has 63.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 77 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.

In June 2025 the article “Substitute (association football)” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Substitute (association football)”, its content was written by 141 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 273 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7780 times in English Wikipedia (2629^th place) and cited 8912 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #14908 in July 2018
• Global: #47453 in July 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #17771 in July 2018
• Global: #27452 in July 2018

There are 16 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) Substitute (association football)		63.253
2	Ukrainian (uk) Заміна (футбол)		41.8245
3	Russian (ru) Замена (футбол)		41.1544
4	Armenian (hy) Փոխարինում (ֆուտբոլ)		37.6155
5	Vietnamese (vi) Cầu thủ dự bị (bóng đá)		34.7824
6	Persian (fa) تعویض (فوتبال)		31.1732
7	Thai (th) ตัวสำรอง (ฟุตบอล)		30.8506
8	Italian (it) Calciatore di riserva		26.2493
9	Simple English (simple) Substitute (association football)		25.9681
10	Indonesian (id) Pemain pengganti		25.2512

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Substitute (association football)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Substitute (association football)		1 388 959
2	French (fr) Remplaçant (football)		180 149
3	Italian (it) Calciatore di riserva		128 836
4	Russian (ru) Замена (футбол)		104 942
5	Arabic (ar) لاعب بديل (كرة القدم)		36 621
6	Persian (fa) تعویض (فوتبال)		30 385
7	Croatian (hr) Zamjena (nogomet)		26 156
8	Ukrainian (uk) Заміна (футбол)		19 424
9	Greek (el) Αναπληρωματικός (ποδόσφαιρο)		19 303
10	Hebrew (he) חילוף (כדורגל)		18 363

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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 "Substitute (association football)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Substitute (association football)		6 426
2	Russian (ru) Замена (футбол)		909
3	French (fr) Remplaçant (football)		573
4	Persian (fa) تعویض (فوتبال)		348
5	Italian (it) Calciatore di riserva		225
6	Vietnamese (vi) Cầu thủ dự bị (bóng đá)		179
7	Thai (th) ตัวสำรอง (ฟุตบอล)		90
8	Arabic (ar) لاعب بديل (كرة القدم)		69
9	Croatian (hr) Zamjena (nogomet)		63
10	Serbian (sr) Замена (фудбал)		43

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

Language versions of the article "Substitute (association football)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Substitute (association football)		141
2	French (fr) Remplaçant (football)		35
3	Italian (it) Calciatore di riserva		35
4	Croatian (hr) Zamjena (nogomet)		15
5	Greek (el) Αναπληρωματικός (ποδόσφαιρο)		9
6	Vietnamese (vi) Cầu thủ dự bị (bóng đá)		9
7	Hebrew (he) חילוף (כדורגל)		6
8	Arabic (ar) لاعب بديل (كرة القدم)		5
9	Persian (fa) تعویض (فوتبال)		4
10	Serbian (sr) Замена (фудбал)		4

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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 "Substitute (association football)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Substitute (association football)		2
2	Arabic (ar) لاعب بديل (كرة القدم)		0
3	Greek (el) Αναπληρωματικός (ποδόσφαιρο)		0
4	Persian (fa) تعویض (فوتبال)		0
5	French (fr) Remplaçant (football)		0
6	Hebrew (he) חילוף (כדורגל)		0
7	Croatian (hr) Zamjena (nogomet)		0
8	Armenian (hy) Փոխարինում (ֆուտբոլ)		0
9	Indonesian (id) Pemain pengganti		0
10	Italian (it) Calciatore di riserva		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 "Substitute (association football)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Substitute (association football)		7 780
2	Russian (ru) Замена (футбол)		301
3	Arabic (ar) لاعب بديل (كرة القدم)		208
4	Greek (el) Αναπληρωματικός (ποδόσφαιρο)		113
5	Serbian (sr) Замена (фудбал)		77
6	French (fr) Remplaçant (football)		76
7	Italian (it) Calciatore di riserva		71
8	Vietnamese (vi) Cầu thủ dự bị (bóng đá)		64
9	Indonesian (id) Pemain pengganti		53
10	Hebrew (he) חילוף (כדורגל)		46

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لاعب بديل (كرة القدم)
el	Greek Αναπληρωματικός (ποδόσφαιρο)
en	English Substitute (association football)
fa	Persian تعویض (فوتبال)
fr	French Remplaçant (football)
he	Hebrew חילוף (כדורגל)
hr	Croatian Zamjena (nogomet)
hy	Armenian Փոխարինում (ֆուտբոլ)
id	Indonesian Pemain pengganti
it	Italian Calciatore di riserva
ru	Russian Замена (футбол)
simple	Simple English Substitute (association football)
sr	Serbian Замена (фудбал)
th	Thai ตัวสำรอง (ฟุตบอล)
uk	Ukrainian Заміна (футбол)
vi	Vietnamese Cầu thủ dự bị (bóng đá)

Best Rank

English: #17771 07.2018

Global: #27452 07.2018

Best Rank

English: #14908 07.2018

Global: #47453 07.2018

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