Marco van Basten

Quality:

Marco van Basten - Dutch association football player and manager (born 1964). This person is the 2746^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Marco van Basten” in Simple English Wikipedia has 77.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 64 references and 10 sections.

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 9896^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9571^st most popular in all topics.

The 6297^th most popular in AI.

The 2746^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4426^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2669^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Marco van Basten”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9896^th place) and edited by 3225 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6297^th place).

Marco van Basten is on the 2746^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 244 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 16277 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1147 in May 2008
• Global: #280 in June 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #592 in August 2023
• Global: #839 in June 2008

There are 52 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) Marco van Basten		96.885
2	Spanish (es) Marco van Basten		95.4119
3	Dutch (nl) Marco van Basten		92.9412
4	Malay (ms) Marco van Basten		88.6667
5	Simple English (simple) Marco van Basten		77.409
6	Italian (it) Marco van Basten		74.957
7	Greek (el) Μάρκο φαν Μπάστεν		65.1575
8	Catalan (ca) Marco van Basten		58.3079
9	Indonesian (id) Marco van Basten		51.1856
10	Armenian (hy) Մարկո վան Բաստեն		49.683

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Marco van Basten		8 646 749
2	Italian (it) Marco van Basten		4 292 804
3	Spanish (es) Marco van Basten		2 359 789
4	Dutch (nl) Marco van Basten		1 925 244
5	French (fr) Marco van Basten		1 746 286
6	Russian (ru) Ван Бастен, Марко		1 713 721
7	Japanese (ja) マルコ・ファン・バステン		1 363 127
8	Portuguese (pt) Marco van Basten		1 214 393
9	German (de) Marco van Basten		1 072 140
10	Polish (pl) Marco van Basten		790 181

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) Marco van Basten		94 729
2	Spanish (es) Marco van Basten		16 590
3	Japanese (ja) マルコ・ファン・バステン		15 388
4	Italian (it) Marco van Basten		13 972
5	Dutch (nl) Marco van Basten		12 993
6	French (fr) Marco van Basten		12 393
7	Russian (ru) Ван Бастен, Марко		12 172
8	Portuguese (pt) Marco van Basten		11 905
9	German (de) Marco van Basten		9 154
10	Persian (fa) مارکو فان باستن		4 667

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Marco van Basten		499
2	Dutch (nl) Marco van Basten		350
3	Italian (it) Marco van Basten		341
4	German (de) Marco van Basten		168
5	Spanish (es) Marco van Basten		165
6	French (fr) Marco van Basten		157
7	Russian (ru) Ван Бастен, Марко		125
8	Japanese (ja) マルコ・ファン・バステン		111
9	Portuguese (pt) Marco van Basten		99
10	Hebrew (he) מרקו ואן באסטן		82

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	French (fr) Marco van Basten		3
2	Italian (it) Marco van Basten		3
3	Indonesian (id) Marco van Basten		2
4	Dutch (nl) Marco van Basten		2
5	Portuguese (pt) Marco van Basten		2
6	Catalan (ca) Marco van Basten		1
7	Greek (el) Μάρκο φαν Μπάστεν		1
8	English (en) Marco van Basten		1
9	Japanese (ja) マルコ・ファン・バステン		1
10	Swedish (sv) Marco van Basten		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