Football

Quality:

Football - family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal and played on foot, as opposed to on horseback in polo. Article “Football” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 2 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 400^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 181^st most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8254^th most popular in all topics.

The 9734^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 843^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8369^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Football”, its content was written by 174 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (181^st place) and edited by 2601 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9734^th place).

The article is cited 339 times in Simple English Wikipedia (9114^th place) and cited 3294 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #7 in January 2015
• Global: #225 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #83 in January 2017
• Global: #1433 in December 2022

There are 24 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	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		100
2	Arabic (ar) كرة قدم جماعية		95.7542
3	Serbian (sr) Фудбал (група спортова)		95.22
4	Vietnamese (vi) Bóng đá (nhóm thể thao)		93.322
5	English (en) Football		92.1388
6	Japanese (ja) フットボール		74.1084
7	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		48.3957
8	Greek (el) Ποδοσφαιρικά αθλήματα		36.3189
9	Latin (la) Harpastum		35.902
10	Lithuanian (lt) Futbolo rūšys		35.1043

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Football		28 853 549
2	Japanese (ja) フットボール		862 101
3	Simple English (simple) Football		610 442
4	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		481 405
5	German (de) Football (Sportart)		397 360
6	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		230 071
7	Russian (ru) Разновидности футбола		144 556
8	Polish (pl) Futbol		122 816
9	Korean (ko) 풋볼		69 572
10	Persian (fa) ورزش فوتبال		54 101

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) Football		102 227
2	Japanese (ja) フットボール		4 424
3	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		1 258
4	Simple English (simple) Football		1 029
5	German (de) Football (Sportart)		893
6	Polish (pl) Futbol		702
7	Russian (ru) Разновидности футбола		519
8	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		356
9	Persian (fa) ورزش فوتبال		255
10	Chinese (zh) 足球類運動		255

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Football		1 957
2	Simple English (simple) Football		174
3	Japanese (ja) フットボール		93
4	German (de) Football (Sportart)		79
5	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		55
6	Latin (la) Harpastum		35
7	Russian (ru) Разновидности футбола		29
8	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		23
9	Polish (pl) Futbol		22
10	Ukrainian (uk) Різновиди футболу		19

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) Football		5
2	Serbian (sr) Фудбал (група спортова)		3
3	German (de) Football (Sportart)		1
4	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		1
5	Arabic (ar) كرة قدم جماعية		0
6	Catalan (ca) Futbol (homonímia)		0
7	Danish (da) Football		0
8	Greek (el) Ποδοσφαιρικά αθλήματα		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Piedpilkado		0
10	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		0

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

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