2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage

Quality:

2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage - knockout stage of the 21st FIFA World Cup. This event is the 1687^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 375^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage” in Simple English Wikipedia has 88.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 90 references and 23 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 375^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1687^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9007^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (9007^th place) and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 639 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage is on the 375^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 1687^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1395 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #32 in July 2018
• Global: #12 in July 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #476 in December 2022
• Global: #146 in June 2018

There are 30 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	Malay (ms) Peringkat Kalah Mati Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		96.6851
2	Hungarian (hu) 2018-as labdarúgó-világbajnokság (egyenes kieséses szakasz)		90.8177
3	Norwegian (no) VM i fotball 2018 – Sluttspill		90.7411
4	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage		89.3617
5	Simple English (simple) 2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage		88.6754
6	Indonesian (id) Babak gugur Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		86.2862
7	Turkish (tr) 2018 FIFA Dünya Kupası eleme aşaması		85.3643
8	Thai (th) ฟุตบอลโลก 2018 รอบแพ้คัดออก		84.6948
9	Greek (el) Φάση νοκ-άουτ Παγκόσμιου Κυπέλλου Ποδοσφαίρου 2018		82.8725
10	Ukrainian (uk) Чемпіонат світу з футболу 2018 (плей-оф)		81.914

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage		2 793 248
2	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ・決勝トーナメント		499 002
3	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018. Плей-офф		258 362
4	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018/Finalrunde		222 573
5	French (fr) Phase à élimination directe de la Coupe du monde de football 2018		152 080
6	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018 – Fase final		129 959
7	Arabic (ar) مرحلة خروج المغلوب في كأس العالم 2018		76 410
8	Persian (fa) مرحله حذفی جام جهانی فوتبال ۲۰۱۸		56 468
9	Chinese (zh) 2018年國際足協世界盃淘汰賽		52 332
10	Indonesian (id) Babak gugur Piala Dunia FIFA 2018		51 182

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) 2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage		6 675
2	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018. Плей-офф		1 221
3	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018/Finalrunde		1 005
4	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ・決勝トーナメント		903
5	French (fr) Phase à élimination directe de la Coupe du monde de football 2018		628
6	Arabic (ar) مرحلة خروج المغلوب في كأس العالم 2018		433
7	Chinese (zh) 2018年國際足協世界盃淘汰賽		348
8	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018 – Fase final		329
9	Simple English (simple) 2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage		267
10	Persian (fa) مرحله حذفی جام جهانی فوتبال ۲۰۱۸		188

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage		169
2	Russian (ru) Чемпионат мира по футболу 2018. Плей-офф		66
3	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018/Finalrunde		54
4	Chinese (zh) 2018年國際足協世界盃淘汰賽		36
5	Portuguese (pt) Copa do Mundo FIFA de 2018 – Fase final		33
6	French (fr) Phase à élimination directe de la Coupe du monde de football 2018		30
7	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ・決勝トーナメント		26
8	Korean (ko) 2018년 FIFA 월드컵 결선 토너먼트		22
9	Arabic (ar) مرحلة خروج المغلوب في كأس العالم 2018		17
10	Hungarian (hu) 2018-as labdarúgó-világbajnokság (egyenes kieséses szakasz)		15

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	Armenian (hy) Ֆուտբոլի աշխարհի առաջնություն 2018 Փլեյ-օֆֆ		2
2	Greek (el) Φάση νοκ-άουτ Παγκόσμιου Κυπέλλου Ποδοσφαίρου 2018		1
3	English (en) 2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage		1
4	Japanese (ja) 2018 FIFAワールドカップ・決勝トーナメント		1
5	Simple English (simple) 2018 FIFA World Cup knockout stage		1
6	Arabic (ar) مرحلة خروج المغلوب في كأس العالم 2018		0
7	Catalan (ca) Copa del Món de Futbol de 2018 - Segona fase		0
8	Danish (da) VM i fodbold 2018 slutspil		0
9	German (de) Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2018/Finalrunde		0
10	Persian (fa) مرحله حذفی جام جهانی فوتبال ۲۰۱۸		0

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

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