Football

Quality:

Association football - sport that is practiced between two teams of eleven players. This event is the 4^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 6^th most popular event in French Wikipedia. Article “Football” in French Wikipedia has 92.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 329 references and 34 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

French Wikipedia:

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The 289^th most popular in French Wikipedia.

fr

The 197^th most editable in French Wikipedia.

The 6^th most popular in events in French Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 123^rd most popular in all topics.

The 59^th most popular in AI.

The 4^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

French Wikipedia:

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The 1527^th most popular in French Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 806^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 801^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Football” was edited by 2 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 69 authors in all languages (801^st place).

Since the creation of article “Football”, its content was written by 783 registered users of French Wikipedia (197^th place) and edited by 13898 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (59^th place).

Association football is on the 6^th place in local ranking of events in French Wikipedia and on the 4^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 91845 times in French Wikipedia (35^th place) and cited 1407298 times in all languages (54^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #14 in June 2006
• Global: #10 in November 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #3 in April 2015
• Global: #26 in June 2010

There are 54 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	Norwegian (no) Fotball		100
2	Indonesian (id) Sepak bola		99.7069
3	Greek (el) Ποδόσφαιρο		98.9886
4	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		96.5222
5	Turkish (tr) Futbol		94.7198
6	English (en) Association football		94.4385
7	Finnish (fi) Jalkapallo		93.9139
8	Hebrew (he) כדורגל		93.7682
9	Persian (fa) فوتبال		93.6981
10	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		92.9698

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Association football		53 274 233
2	Spanish (es) Fútbol		41 054 595
3	Indonesian (id) Sepak bola		11 805 787
4	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		10 260 778
5	French (fr) Football		9 781 375
6	German (de) Fußball		8 788 704
7	Arabic (ar) كرة القدم		7 567 060
8	Russian (ru) Футбол		7 168 484
9	Japanese (ja) サッカー		6 693 020
10	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		6 472 573

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) Association football		187 275
2	Spanish (es) Fútbol		67 810
3	Russian (ru) Футбол		27 394
4	French (fr) Football		23 358
5	Arabic (ar) كرة القدم		18 533
6	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		18 185
7	German (de) Fußball		17 816
8	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		17 446
9	Indonesian (id) Sepak bola		14 035
10	Japanese (ja) サッカー		13 953

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Association football		2 638
2	German (de) Fußball		898
3	French (fr) Football		783
4	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		741
5	Spanish (es) Fútbol		645
6	Swedish (sv) Fotboll		529
7	Norwegian (no) Fotball		440
8	Japanese (ja) サッカー		415
9	Dutch (nl) Voetbal		401
10	Portuguese (pt) Futebol		375

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	Italian (it) Calcio (sport)		12
2	Japanese (ja) サッカー		11
3	English (en) Association football		7
4	Korean (ko) 축구		6
5	Swedish (sv) Fotboll		5
6	Romanian (ro) Fotbal		4
7	Norwegian (no) Fotball		3
8	Bulgarian (bg) Футбол		2
9	German (de) Fußball		2
10	Spanish (es) Fútbol		2

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

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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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information