Defans

Quality:

Defender - association football position. Article “Defans” in Turkish Wikipedia has 65.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 52 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Turkish Wikipedia:

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The 5448^th most popular in Turkish Wikipedia.

tr

The 9877^th most editable in Turkish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9118^th most popular in all topics.

Achievements in the last month:

Turkish Wikipedia:

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The 5168^th most popular in Turkish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3181^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Defans”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Turkish Wikipedia (9877^th place) and edited by 2221 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 12143 times in Turkish Wikipedia (121^st place) and cited 510692 times in all languages (182^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Turkish): #390 in June 2008
• Global: #1273 in July 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Turkish): #1890 in June 2013
• Global: #1719 in June 2010

There are 45 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) Defender (association football)		84.1666
2	Chinese (zh) 後衛 (足球)		81.7901
3	Turkish (tr) Defans		65.2381
4	Uzbek (uz) Himoyachi (futbol)		58.5786
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Forsvarsspelar i fotball		56.1282
6	Vietnamese (vi) Hậu vệ (bóng đá)		45.0181
7	Spanish (es) Defensa (fútbol)		37.0215
8	German (de) Abwehrspieler		34.3848
9	Italian (it) Difensore (calcio)		33.7689
10	Arabic (ar) مدافع (كرة القدم)		32.304

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defender (association football)		14 200 642
2	Spanish (es) Defensa (fútbol)		3 472 969
3	Japanese (ja) ディフェンダー (サッカー)		1 717 559
4	Russian (ru) Защитник (футбол)		1 276 393
5	French (fr) Défenseur (football)		955 485
6	Italian (it) Difensore (calcio)		919 596
7	Portuguese (pt) Zagueiro		885 033
8	Arabic (ar) مدافع (كرة القدم)		712 288
9	Indonesian (id) Bek (sepak bola)		694 820
10	Polish (pl) Obrońca (piłka nożna)		661 156

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) Defender (association football)		135 287
2	Japanese (ja) ディフェンダー (サッカー)		12 547
3	Spanish (es) Defensa (fútbol)		11 442
4	French (fr) Défenseur (football)		6 695
5	Portuguese (pt) Zagueiro		6 080
6	Russian (ru) Защитник (футбол)		5 717
7	Chinese (zh) 後衛 (足球)		4 712
8	Italian (it) Difensore (calcio)		4 693
9	Persian (fa) مدافع		3 197
10	Turkish (tr) Defans		2 642

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Defender (association football)		557
2	Spanish (es) Defensa (fútbol)		213
3	German (de) Abwehrspieler		138
4	Russian (ru) Защитник (футбол)		109
5	Dutch (nl) Verdediger (voetbal)		95
6	French (fr) Défenseur (football)		89
7	Japanese (ja) ディフェンダー (サッカー)		88
8	Vietnamese (vi) Hậu vệ (bóng đá)		72
9	Portuguese (pt) Zagueiro		69
10	Persian (fa) مدافع		61

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) Defender (association football)		4
2	Spanish (es) Defensa (fútbol)		2
3	Russian (ru) Защитник (футбол)		2
4	Arabic (ar) مدافع (كرة القدم)		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Защитник (футбол)		1
6	Persian (fa) مدافع		1
7	Korean (ko) 수비수		1
8	Malay (ms) Pemain pertahanan (bola sepak)		1
9	Portuguese (pt) Zagueiro		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Hậu vệ (bóng đá)		1

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

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