Captain (sports)

Captain - member of a sports team. Article “Captain (sports)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Since the creation of article “Captain (sports)”, its content was written by 5 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 578 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 24 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 90012 times in all languages (1628^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #4165 in August 2011
• Global: #16580 in December 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5163 in August 2019
• Global: #88736 in June 2018

There are 28 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	Italian (it) Capitano (sport)		34.1263
2	German (de) Mannschaftskapitän		28.9581
3	Catalan (ca) Capità (esport)		26.2205
4	Croatian (hr) Kapetan (šport)		22.9957
5	English (en) Captain (sports)		22.3574
6	Hebrew (he) קפטן (ספורט)		21.9885
7	French (fr) Capitaine (sport)		19.9675
8	Norwegian (no) Lagkaptein		18.5855
9	Portuguese (pt) Capitão (esporte)		18.0773
10	Arabic (ar) قائد (ألعاب رياضية)		16.8211

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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 (sports)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Captain (sports)		612 615
2	German (de) Mannschaftskapitän		420 298
3	Japanese (ja) 主将		301 188
4	French (fr) Capitaine (sport)		192 166
5	Finnish (fi) Kapteeni (urheilu)		94 367
6	Spanish (es) Capitán (deporte)		68 028
7	Swedish (sv) Lagkapten		68 008
8	Italian (it) Capitano (sport)		54 315
9	Persian (fa) کاپیتان (ورزش)		46 872
10	Hebrew (he) קפטן (ספורט)		46 420

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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 (sports)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Captain (sports)		3 366
2	Japanese (ja) 主将		1 739
3	German (de) Mannschaftskapitän		1 502
4	French (fr) Capitaine (sport)		1 220
5	Spanish (es) Capitán (deporte)		367
6	Hebrew (he) קפטן (ספורט)		197
7	Simple English (simple) Captain (sports)		181
8	Finnish (fi) Kapteeni (urheilu)		161
9	Persian (fa) کاپیتان (ورزش)		157
10	Swedish (sv) Lagkapten		132

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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 (sports)" 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 (sports)		109
2	German (de) Mannschaftskapitän		86
3	Hebrew (he) קפטן (ספורט)		60
4	Dutch (nl) Aanvoerder (sport)		37
5	Italian (it) Capitano (sport)		33
6	Swedish (sv) Lagkapten		30
7	Finnish (fi) Kapteeni (urheilu)		25
8	French (fr) Capitaine (sport)		25
9	Spanish (es) Capitán (deporte)		24
10	Japanese (ja) 主将		23

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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 (sports)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Captain (sports)		2
2	Arabic (ar) قائد (ألعاب رياضية)		0
3	Catalan (ca) Capità (esport)		0
4	Czech (cs) Kapitán (sport)		0
5	Danish (da) Kaptajn (sport)		0
6	German (de) Mannschaftskapitän		0
7	Greek (el) Αρχηγός αθλητικής ομάδας		0
8	Spanish (es) Capitán (deporte)		0
9	Estonian (et) Kapten (sport)		0
10	Persian (fa) کاپیتان (ورزش)		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 (sports)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Capitaine (sport)		30 964
2	English (en) Captain (sports)		13 705
3	German (de) Mannschaftskapitän		11 497
4	Swedish (sv) Lagkapten		9 033
5	Norwegian (no) Lagkaptein		6 670
6	Japanese (ja) 主将		5 568
7	Finnish (fi) Kapteeni (urheilu)		3 502
8	Italian (it) Capitano (sport)		2 427
9	Hebrew (he) קפטן (ספורט)		1 936
10	Spanish (es) Capitán (deporte)		1 163

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قائد (ألعاب رياضية)
ca	Catalan Capità (esport)
cs	Czech Kapitán (sport)
da	Danish Kaptajn (sport)
de	German Mannschaftskapitän
el	Greek Αρχηγός αθλητικής ομάδας
en	English Captain (sports)
es	Spanish Capitán (deporte)
et	Estonian Kapten (sport)
fa	Persian کاپیتان (ورزش)
fi	Finnish Kapteeni (urheilu)
fr	French Capitaine (sport)
he	Hebrew קפטן (ספורט)
hr	Croatian Kapetan (šport)
hu	Hungarian Csapatkapitány
it	Italian Capitano (sport)
ja	Japanese 主将
ka	Georgian კაპიტანი (სპორტი)
ko	Korean 주장 (스포츠)
lt	Lithuanian Komandos kapitonas
nl	Dutch Aanvoerder (sport)
no	Norwegian Lagkaptein
pt	Portuguese Capitão (esporte)
simple	Simple English Captain (sports)
sr	Serbian Капитен
sv	Swedish Lagkapten
ur	Urdu کپتان (کھیل)
zh	Chinese 隊長

Best Rank

Simple English: #5163 08.2019

Global: #88736 06.2018

Best Rank

Simple English: #4165 08.2011

Global: #16580 12.2008

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