Captain (association football)

Captain - team captain of an association football team. Article “Captain (association football)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Captain (association football)”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 938 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2408 times in Simple English Wikipedia (172^nd place) and cited 284352 times in all languages (371^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1852 in May 2010
• Global: #8222 in July 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #12175 in April 2014
• Global: #11454 in December 2022

There are 39 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	Portuguese (pt) Capitão (futebol)		68.5652
2	English (en) Captain (association football)		49.1588
3	Hebrew (he) קפטן (כדורגל)		41.3517
4	Serbian (sr) Капитен (фудбал)		37.9428
5	Vietnamese (vi) Đội trưởng (bóng đá)		33.6876
6	Korean (ko) 주장 (축구)		33.3041
7	Czech (cs) Kapitán (fotbal)		32.8096
8	Slovak (sk) Kapitán (futbal)		28.3824
9	Esperanto (eo) Teamestro (futbalo)		27.4272
10	Norwegian (no) Kaptein (fotball)		26.8184

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Captain (association football)		4 480 494
2	Spanish (es) Capitán (fútbol)		791 314
3	Italian (it) Capitano (calcio)		680 957
4	Russian (ru) Капитан (футбол)		498 607
5	Portuguese (pt) Capitão (futebol)		356 176
6	Arabic (ar) قائد فريق (كرة القدم)		202 399
7	Indonesian (id) Kapten (sepak bola)		172 459
8	Persian (fa) کاپیتان (فوتبال)		158 880
9	French (fr) Capitaine (football)		139 129
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đội trưởng (bóng đá)		134 983

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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 "Captain (association football)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Captain (association football)		49 480
2	Spanish (es) Capitán (fútbol)		4 868
3	Russian (ru) Капитан (футбол)		4 732
4	Italian (it) Capitano (calcio)		2 733
5	Japanese (ja) キャプテン (サッカー)		2 180
6	Persian (fa) کاپیتان (فوتبال)		2 150
7	Portuguese (pt) Capitão (futebol)		1 834
8	French (fr) Capitaine (football)		1 410
9	Chinese (zh) 隊長 (足球)		1 351
10	Indonesian (id) Kapten (sepak bola)		870

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

Language versions of the article "Captain (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) Captain (association football)		233
2	Spanish (es) Capitán (fútbol)		90
3	Italian (it) Capitano (calcio)		86
4	Russian (ru) Капитан (футбол)		59
5	Vietnamese (vi) Đội trưởng (bóng đá)		44
6	Hungarian (hu) Csapatkapitány (labdarúgás)		33
7	Arabic (ar) قائد فريق (كرة القدم)		32
8	Persian (fa) کاپیتان (فوتبال)		31
9	Portuguese (pt) Capitão (futebol)		30
10	Greek (el) Αρχηγός ποδοσφαιρικής ομάδας		25

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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 "Captain (association football)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Captain (association football)		3
2	Arabic (ar) قائد فريق (كرة القدم)		2
3	Catalan (ca) Capità (futbol)		2
4	Esperanto (eo) Teamestro (futbalo)		1
5	French (fr) Capitaine (football)		1
6	Polish (pl) Kapitan (piłka nożna)		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Kapitan (futbol)		0
8	Belarusian (be) Капітан (футбол)		0
9	Czech (cs) Kapitán (fotbal)		0
10	Danish (da) Anfører (fodbold)		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 "Captain (association football)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Captain (association football)		53 979
2	Russian (ru) Капитан (футбол)		27 014
3	Ukrainian (uk) Капітан (футбол)		21 079
4	Arabic (ar) قائد فريق (كرة القدم)		19 089
5	Japanese (ja) キャプテン (サッカー)		16 363
6	Portuguese (pt) Capitão (futebol)		14 917
7	Hungarian (hu) Csapatkapitány (labdarúgás)		13 458
8	Italian (it) Capitano (calcio)		11 370
9	Polish (pl) Kapitan (piłka nożna)		10 698
10	Persian (fa) کاپیتان (فوتبال)		10 586

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قائد فريق (كرة القدم)
az	Azerbaijani Kapitan (futbol)
be	Belarusian Капітан (футбол)
ca	Catalan Capità (futbol)
cs	Czech Kapitán (fotbal)
da	Danish Anfører (fodbold)
el	Greek Αρχηγός ποδοσφαιρικής ομάδας
en	English Captain (association football)
eo	Esperanto Teamestro (futbalo)
es	Spanish Capitán (fútbol)
et	Estonian Kapten (jalgpall)
fa	Persian کاپیتان (فوتبال)
fr	French Capitaine (football)
gl	Galician Capitán (fútbol)
he	Hebrew קפטן (כדורגל)
hu	Hungarian Csapatkapitány (labdarúgás)
hy	Armenian Ավագ (ֆուտբոլ)
id	Indonesian Kapten (sepak bola)
it	Italian Capitano (calcio)
ja	Japanese キャプテン (サッカー)
ka	Georgian კაპიტანი (ფეხბურთი)
kk	Kazakh Капитан (футбол)
ko	Korean 주장 (축구)
ms	Malay Kapten (bola sepak)
no	Norwegian Kaptein (fotball)
pl	Polish Kapitan (piłka nożna)
pt	Portuguese Capitão (futebol)
ro	Romanian Căpitan (fotbal)
ru	Russian Капитан (футбол)
simple	Simple English Captain (association football)
sk	Slovak Kapitán (futbal)
sr	Serbian Капитен (фудбал)
th	Thai กัปตัน (ฟุตบอล)
tr	Turkish Kaptan (futbol)
uk	Ukrainian Капітан (футбол)
ur	Urdu کپتان (ایسوسی ایشن فٹ بال)
uz	Uzbek Sardor (futbol)
vi	Vietnamese Đội trưởng (bóng đá)
zh	Chinese 隊長 (足球)

Best Rank

Simple English: #12175 04.2014

Global: #11454 12.2022

Best Rank

Simple English: #1852 05.2010

Global: #8222 07.2012

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