1998 FIFA World Cup

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1998 FIFA World Cup - 16th FIFA football World Cup finals, held in France. This event is the 81^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 232^nd most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “1998 FIFA World Cup” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 25 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 232^nd most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2943^rd most popular in all topics.

The 4712^th most popular in AI.

The 81^st most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 733^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 110^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1035^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “1998 FIFA World Cup”, its content was written by 22 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 3700 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4712^th place).

1998 FIFA World Cup is on the 232^nd place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 81^st place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 491 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5315^th place) and cited 42719 times in all languages (3951^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #271 in January 2015
• Global: #202 in July 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #733 in June 2026
• Global: #28 in July 2018

There are 52 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	Croatian (hr) Svjetsko prvenstvo u nogometu – Francuska 1998.		92.7147
2	Slovak (sk) Majstrovstvá sveta vo futbale 1998		80.2567
3	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1998		79.387
4	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1998		78.5102
5	English (en) 1998 FIFA World Cup		78.0105
6	Korean (ko) 1998년 FIFA 월드컵		73.8691
7	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998		73.5636
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) FIFA Svjetsko prvenstvo 1998.		70.8708
9	Greek (el) Παγκόσμιο Κύπελλο Ποδοσφαίρου 1998		68.9833
10	Malay (ms) Piala Dunia FIFA 1998		66.5748

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 1998 FIFA World Cup		20 471 670
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998		6 702 459
3	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1998		5 139 306
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998		3 188 643
5	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1998		3 165 093
6	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998		3 019 496
7	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998		2 809 040
8	Japanese (ja) 1998 FIFAワールドカップ		2 120 331
9	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1998		1 465 304
10	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۱۹۹۸		1 204 624

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) 1998 FIFA World Cup		688 537
2	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998		147 320
3	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998		120 601
4	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1998		98 311
5	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1998		73 930
6	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998		57 648
7	Japanese (ja) 1998 FIFAワールドカップ		55 271
8	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998		48 606
9	Norwegian (no) VM i fotball 1998		39 004
10	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۱۹۹۸		35 352

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 1998 FIFA World Cup		781
2	French (fr) Coupe du monde de football 1998		331
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998		289
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998		263
5	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998		248
6	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1998		177
7	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 1998		149
8	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 1998		98
9	Polish (pl) Mistrzostwa Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1998		96
10	Japanese (ja) 1998 FIFAワールドカップ		91

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) 1998 FIFA World Cup		13
2	Italian (it) Campionato mondiale di calcio 1998		11
3	Spanish (es) Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998		10
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1998		6
5	Dutch (nl) Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 1998		5
6	Czech (cs) Mistrovství světa ve fotbale 1998		3
7	Swedish (sv) Världsmästerskapet i fotboll 1998		2
8	Arabic (ar) كأس العالم 1998		1
9	Persian (fa) جام جهانی فوتبال ۱۹۹۸		1
10	Finnish (fi) Jalkapallon maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 1998		1

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 Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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