Free kick

Quality:

Free kick - method of restarting play in association football. Article “Free kick” in Simple English Wikipedia has 0.2 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.

Since the creation of article “Free kick”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1015 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4263 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2300 in September 2017
• Global: #9942 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6605 in June 2018
• Global: #5040 in June 2018

There are 32 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) Free kick (association football)		94.6478
2	Malay (ms) Sepakan percuma (persatuan bola sepak)		88.716
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Slobodan udarac (fudbal)		75.422
4	Arabic (ar) ركلة حرة (كرة القدم)		61.8754
5	Korean (ko) 프리킥 (축구)		54.2875
6	Italian (it) Calcio di punizione		34.7469
7	Polish (pl) Rzut wolny		28.7469
8	Chinese (zh) 任意球		27.2182
9	Turkish (tr) Serbest vuruş (futbol)		25.4415
10	Basque (eu) Jaurtiketa libre (futbola)		24.1769

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Free kick (association football)		2 923 331
2	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (fútbol)		1 709 186
3	Russian (ru) Штрафной и свободный удары (футбол)		606 776
4	German (de) Freistoß		589 522
5	French (fr) Loi 13 du football		587 130
6	Japanese (ja) フリーキック (サッカー)		502 638
7	Italian (it) Calcio di punizione		422 426
8	Polish (pl) Rzut wolny		312 650
9	Indonesian (id) Tendangan bebas		288 173
10	Turkish (tr) Serbest vuruş (futbol)		237 828

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) Free kick (association football)		21 941
2	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (fútbol)		5 083
3	French (fr) Loi 13 du football		3 132
4	German (de) Freistoß		2 254
5	Chinese (zh) 任意球		2 247
6	Japanese (ja) フリーキック (サッカー)		2 026
7	Russian (ru) Штрафной и свободный удары (футбол)		1 064
8	Italian (it) Calcio di punizione		719
9	Korean (ko) 프리킥 (축구)		551
10	Polish (pl) Rzut wolny		516

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Free kick (association football)		239
2	German (de) Freistoß		111
3	French (fr) Loi 13 du football		100
4	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (fútbol)		88
5	Russian (ru) Штрафной и свободный удары (футбол)		47
6	Japanese (ja) フリーキック (サッカー)		46
7	Polish (pl) Rzut wolny		39
8	Italian (it) Calcio di punizione		37
9	Dutch (nl) Vrije schop		30
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đá phạt trực tiếp (bóng đá)		30

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) Free kick (association football)		6
2	Greek (el) Ελεύθερο λάκτισμα		1
3	French (fr) Loi 13 du football		1
4	Chinese (zh) 任意球		1
5	Arabic (ar) ركلة حرة (كرة القدم)		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Пряк свободен удар		0
7	Catalan (ca) Tir lliure (futbol)		0
8	Danish (da) Frispark (fodbold)		0
9	German (de) Freistoß		0
10	Spanish (es) Tiro libre (fútbol)		0

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

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