2021 in association football

Quality:

2021 in association football - overview of the events of 2021 in association football. Article “2021 in association football” in Simple English Wikipedia has 45.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 28 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “2021 in association football”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 185 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16726 times in all languages (9986^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #650 in January 2021
• Global: #8683 in December 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #225 in December 2024
• Global: #143820 in June 2021

There are 4 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) 2021 in association football		68.1089
2	Japanese (ja) 2021年のサッカー		63.586
3	Simple English (simple) 2021 in association football		45.6803
4	French (fr) 2021 en football		36.8681

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) 2021 en football		150 551
2	English (en) 2021 in association football		117 250
3	Simple English (simple) 2021 in association football		20 191
4	Japanese (ja) 2021年のサッカー		17 367

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) 2021 en football		2 086
2	English (en) 2021 in association football		522
3	Japanese (ja) 2021年のサッカー		49
4	Simple English (simple) 2021 in association football		33

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) 2021 in association football		113
2	French (fr) 2021 en football		46
3	Japanese (ja) 2021年のサッカー		16
4	Simple English (simple) 2021 in association football		10

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) 2021 in association football		3
2	French (fr) 2021 en football		0
3	Japanese (ja) 2021年のサッカー		0
4	Simple English (simple) 2021 in association football		0

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

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