Football

Quality:

Football codes - family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal and played on foot, as opposed to horseback. Article “Football” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 379^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 182^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7987^th most popular in all topics.

The 9373^rd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 405^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 709^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Football” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (709^th place) and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Football”, its content was written by 168 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (182^nd place) and edited by 2609 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9373^rd place).

The article is cited 328 times in Simple English Wikipedia (9340^th place) and cited 3245 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #7 in January 2015
• Global: #226 in February 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #83 in January 2017
• Global: #1431 in December 2022

There are 23 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	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		100
2	Arabic (ar) كرة قدم جماعية		95.9814
3	Vietnamese (vi) Bóng đá (nhóm thể thao)		93.5681
4	English (en) Football		91.0576
5	Japanese (ja) フットボール		74.3478
6	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		48.8161
7	Greek (el) Ποδοσφαιρικά αθλήματα		36.0643
8	Lithuanian (lt) Futbolo rūšys		35.5654
9	Latin (la) Harpastum		35.4615
10	Chinese (zh) 足球類運動		33.5366

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Football		28 214 617
2	Japanese (ja) フットボール		806 010
3	Simple English (simple) Football		614 459
4	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		470 277
5	German (de) Football (Sportart)		390 876
6	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		149 703
7	Russian (ru) Разновидности футбола		135 734
8	Polish (pl) Futbol		116 367
9	Korean (ko) 풋볼		67 197
10	Persian (fa) ورزش فوتبال		52 305

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		52 423
2	Simple English (simple) Football		4 890
3	Japanese (ja) フットボール		2 078
4	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		1 155
5	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		577
6	Korean (ko) 풋볼		482
7	German (de) Football (Sportart)		471
8	Russian (ru) Разновидности футбола		460
9	Polish (pl) Futbol		284
10	Urdu (ur) فٹ بال		230

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Football		1 940
2	Simple English (simple) Football		168
3	Japanese (ja) フットボール		92
4	German (de) Football (Sportart)		79
5	Tamil (ta) காற்பந்தாட்டம்		73
6	Spanish (es) Fútbol (homonimia)		52
7	Latin (la) Harpastum		35
8	Russian (ru) Разновидности футбола		27
9	Polish (pl) Futbol		21
10	Ukrainian (uk) Різновиди футболу		18

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		3
2	Simple English (simple) Football		3
3	Esperanto (eo) Piedpilkado		1
4	Persian (fa) ورزش فوتبال		1
5	Japanese (ja) フットボール		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Різновиди футболу		1
7	Arabic (ar) كرة قدم جماعية		0
8	Catalan (ca) Futbol (homonímia)		0
9	Danish (da) Football		0
10	German (de) Football (Sportart)		0

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

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