Forward

Quality:

Forward - association football position played near the opponent's goal. Article “Forward” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7035^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 7130^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8396^th most popular in all topics.

The 8824^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 2407^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 5668^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Forward”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7130^th place) and edited by 2732 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8824^th place).

The article is cited 3010 times in Simple English Wikipedia (127^th place) and cited 456758 times in all languages (205^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #749 in August 2009
• Global: #1382 in March 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #394 in December 2022
• Global: #1052 in December 2022

There are 47 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) Forward (association football)		80.3306
2	Turkish (tr) Forvet (futbol)		62.4329
3	Vietnamese (vi) Tiền đạo (bóng đá)		56.2208
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Angrepsspelar i fotball		53.206
5	Catalan (ca) Davanter (futbol)		40.2864
6	Uzbek (uz) Hujumchi (futbol)		39.7304
7	Chinese (zh) 前鋒 (足球)		36.324
8	Portuguese (pt) Atacante (futebol)		35.6328
9	Italian (it) Attaccante (calcio)		34.5938
10	Swedish (sv) Anfallare (fotboll)		30.5279

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Forward (association football)		13 832 282
2	Spanish (es) Delantero		3 682 258
3	Japanese (ja) フォワード (サッカー)		1 837 980
4	French (fr) Attaquant (football)		1 492 546
5	Russian (ru) Нападающий (футбол)		1 418 517
6	Portuguese (pt) Atacante (futebol)		1 417 403
7	Italian (it) Attaccante (calcio)		961 866
8	Arabic (ar) مهاجم (كرة القدم)		824 491
9	Indonesian (id) Penyerang (sepak bola)		792 160
10	Turkish (tr) Forvet (futbol)		741 102

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) Forward (association football)		136 912
2	Japanese (ja) フォワード (サッカー)		18 680
3	Spanish (es) Delantero		15 831
4	French (fr) Attaquant (football)		13 841
5	Russian (ru) Нападающий (футбол)		10 518
6	Chinese (zh) 前鋒 (足球)		10 093
7	Portuguese (pt) Atacante (futebol)		9 159
8	German (de) Stürmer (Fußball)		6 250
9	Italian (it) Attaccante (calcio)		5 066
10	Persian (fa) مهاجم (فوتبال)		4 315

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Forward (association football)		705
2	Spanish (es) Delantero		329
3	German (de) Stürmer (Fußball)		153
4	Portuguese (pt) Atacante (futebol)		134
5	French (fr) Attaquant (football)		120
6	Japanese (ja) フォワード (サッカー)		102
7	Arabic (ar) مهاجم (كرة القدم)		91
8	Russian (ru) Нападающий (футбол)		91
9	Turkish (tr) Forvet (futbol)		84
10	Chinese (zh) 前鋒 (足球)		84

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	Spanish (es) Delantero		11
2	Portuguese (pt) Atacante (futebol)		3
3	German (de) Stürmer (Fußball)		2
4	English (en) Forward (association football)		2
5	Russian (ru) Нападающий (футбол)		2
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tiền đạo (bóng đá)		2
7	Arabic (ar) مهاجم (كرة القدم)		1
8	Catalan (ca) Davanter (futbol)		1
9	French (fr) Attaquant (football)		1
10	Korean (ko) 공격수		1

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information