Designated Player Rule

Designated Player Rule - Major League Soccer rule. Article “Designated Player Rule” in Simple English Wikipedia has 43 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 31 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Designated Player Rule”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 277 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1540 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #5342 in May 2021
• Global: #18476 in July 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #27291 in November 2025
• Global: #20265 in July 2023

There are 12 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	English (en) Designated Player Rule		48.4781
2	Simple English (simple) Designated Player Rule		43.0321
3	Greek (el) Κανονισμός ενδεδειγμένου παίκτη		31.5214
4	Ukrainian (uk) Правило призначеного гравця		30.4658
5	Russian (ru) Правило назначенного игрока		25.8327
6	Italian (it) Regola del giocatore designato		24.8867
7	Portuguese (pt) Regra do Jogador Designado		22.0157
8	Spanish (es) Regla del Jugador Franquicia		15.5557
9	Arabic (ar) قاعدة اللاعب المحدد		12.9323
10	Thai (th) กฎผู้เล่นแต่งตั้ง		12.0623

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Designated Player Rule" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Designated Player Rule		3 165 250
2	Spanish (es) Regla del Jugador Franquicia		168 943
3	French (fr) Règle du joueur désigné		167 593
4	Japanese (ja) 特別指定選手制度 (メジャーリーグサッカー)		69 078
5	Russian (ru) Правило назначенного игрока		57 284
6	Italian (it) Regola del giocatore designato		56 368
7	Portuguese (pt) Regra do Jogador Designado		19 110
8	Arabic (ar) قاعدة اللاعب المحدد		4 867
9	Thai (th) กฎผู้เล่นแต่งตั้ง		4 461
10	Simple English (simple) Designated Player Rule		2 906

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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 "Designated Player Rule" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Designated Player Rule		20 766
2	French (fr) Règle du joueur désigné		932
3	Japanese (ja) 特別指定選手制度 (メジャーリーグサッカー)		867
4	Russian (ru) Правило назначенного игрока		380
5	Italian (it) Regola del giocatore designato		158
6	Spanish (es) Regla del Jugador Franquicia		135
7	Portuguese (pt) Regra do Jogador Designado		73
8	Simple English (simple) Designated Player Rule		64
9	Thai (th) กฎผู้เล่นแต่งตั้ง		21
10	Greek (el) Κανονισμός ενδεδειγμένου παίκτη		6

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

Language versions of the article "Designated Player Rule" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Designated Player Rule		180
2	French (fr) Règle du joueur désigné		37
3	Spanish (es) Regla del Jugador Franquicia		12
4	Italian (it) Regola del giocatore designato		11
5	Russian (ru) Правило назначенного игрока		8
6	Portuguese (pt) Regra do Jogador Designado		7
7	Japanese (ja) 特別指定選手制度 (メジャーリーグサッカー)		6
8	Thai (th) กฎผู้เล่นแต่งตั้ง		6
9	Simple English (simple) Designated Player Rule		4
10	Greek (el) Κανονισμός ενδεδειγμένου παίκτη		3

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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 "Designated Player Rule" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) قاعدة اللاعب المحدد		1
2	English (en) Designated Player Rule		1
3	Greek (el) Κανονισμός ενδεδειγμένου παίκτη		0
4	Spanish (es) Regla del Jugador Franquicia		0
5	French (fr) Règle du joueur désigné		0
6	Italian (it) Regola del giocatore designato		0
7	Japanese (ja) 特別指定選手制度 (メジャーリーグサッカー)		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Regra do Jogador Designado		0
9	Russian (ru) Правило назначенного игрока		0
10	Simple English (simple) Designated Player Rule		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 "Designated Player Rule" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Designated Player Rule		819
2	Russian (ru) Правило назначенного игрока		232
3	French (fr) Règle du joueur désigné		135
4	Portuguese (pt) Regra do Jogador Designado		96
5	Italian (it) Regola del giocatore designato		87
6	Japanese (ja) 特別指定選手制度 (メジャーリーグサッカー)		81
7	Arabic (ar) قاعدة اللاعب المحدد		45
8	Spanish (es) Regla del Jugador Franquicia		21
9	Ukrainian (uk) Правило призначеного гравця		9
10	Simple English (simple) Designated Player Rule		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قاعدة اللاعب المحدد
el	Greek Κανονισμός ενδεδειγμένου παίκτη
en	English Designated Player Rule
es	Spanish Regla del Jugador Franquicia
fr	French Règle du joueur désigné
it	Italian Regola del giocatore designato
ja	Japanese 特別指定選手制度 (メジャーリーグサッカー)
pt	Portuguese Regra do Jogador Designado
ru	Russian Правило назначенного игрока
simple	Simple English Designated Player Rule
th	Thai กฎผู้เล่นแต่งตั้ง
uk	Ukrainian Правило призначеного гравця

Best Rank

Simple English: #27291 11.2025

Global: #20265 07.2023

Best Rank

Simple English: #5342 05.2021

Global: #18476 07.2015

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