FIFA Player of the Century

Quality:

FIFA Player of the Century - one-off award by FIFA. Article “FIFA Player of the Century” in Simple English Wikipedia has 9.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 3 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 “FIFA Player of the Century”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 447 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 37 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1160 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #486 in May 2022
• Global: #4904 in November 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1070 in November 2023
• Global: #2733 in December 2022

There are 15 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) FIFA Player of the Century		29.3756
2	Chinese (zh) 国际足联世纪最佳球员		28.4449
3	Slovak (sk) Najlepší futbalista 20. storočia		26.2166
4	Arabic (ar) جائزة لاعب القرن للفيفا		25.1046
5	Portuguese (pt) Melhor Jogador do Século da FIFA		23.8906
6	Ukrainian (uk) Гравець століття за версією ФІФА		23.0046
7	Spanish (es) Jugador del Siglo de la FIFA		21.7908
8	Hebrew (he) כדורגלן המאה של פיפ"א		20.5452
9	Uzbek (uz) FIFA talqini boʻyicha asrning eng yaxshi futbolchisi		19.2901
10	Korean (ko) FIFA 세기의 선수		19.0863

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) FIFA Player of the Century		2 575 515
2	Spanish (es) Jugador del Siglo de la FIFA		1 633 817
3	Portuguese (pt) Melhor Jogador do Século da FIFA		592 369
4	Russian (ru) Игрок столетия по версии ФИФА		281 358
5	Arabic (ar) جائزة لاعب القرن للفيفا		217 255
6	Czech (cs) Nejlepší fotbalista 20. století		100 246
7	Simple English (simple) FIFA Player of the Century		13 821
8	Slovak (sk) Najlepší futbalista 20. storočia		13 259
9	Chinese (zh) 国际足联世纪最佳球员		10 989
10	Dutch (nl) FIFA Player of the Century		9 339

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) FIFA Player of the Century		9 536
2	Russian (ru) Игрок столетия по версии ФИФА		4 468
3	Spanish (es) Jugador del Siglo de la FIFA		3 313
4	Portuguese (pt) Melhor Jogador do Século da FIFA		1 600
5	Arabic (ar) جائزة لاعب القرن للفيفا		1 054
6	Czech (cs) Nejlepší fotbalista 20. století		584
7	Simple English (simple) FIFA Player of the Century		184
8	Turkish (tr) FIFA Yüzyılın Futbolcusu		166
9	Slovak (sk) Najlepší futbalista 20. storočia		156
10	Chinese (zh) 国际足联世纪最佳球员		134

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) FIFA Player of the Century		183
2	Spanish (es) Jugador del Siglo de la FIFA		120
3	Portuguese (pt) Melhor Jogador do Século da FIFA		57
4	Russian (ru) Игрок столетия по версии ФИФА		22
5	Arabic (ar) جائزة لاعب القرن للفيفا		18
6	Czech (cs) Nejlepší fotbalista 20. století		17
7	Chinese (zh) 国际足联世纪最佳球员		7
8	Hebrew (he) כדורגלן המאה של פיפ"א		6
9	Dutch (nl) FIFA Player of the Century		5
10	Simple English (simple) FIFA Player of the Century		3

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	Russian (ru) Игрок столетия по версии ФИФА		2
2	English (en) FIFA Player of the Century		1
3	Arabic (ar) جائزة لاعب القرن للفيفا		0
4	Czech (cs) Nejlepší fotbalista 20. století		0
5	Spanish (es) Jugador del Siglo de la FIFA		0
6	Hebrew (he) כדורגלן המאה של פיפ"א		0
7	Korean (ko) FIFA 세기의 선수		0
8	Dutch (nl) FIFA Player of the Century		0
9	Portuguese (pt) Melhor Jogador do Século da FIFA		0
10	Simple English (simple) FIFA Player of the Century		0

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

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