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Welcome to this WikiProject related to association football. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on how to improve the articles on the subject. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or write yourself up below. The significant milestones and achievements of the project can be found at the Milestones subpage.

Scope

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This WikiProject aims primarily to establish and organize standards for football related articles resulting in well-structured and well-written articles, and possibly also in featured articles, and also making all articles related to football easy to find.

Did you know?
These extracts from newly created football articles appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on the date shown. A full archive of all football related entries is maintained on Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Did you know.

Goals

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Write articles:

  1. on an overview of football in every country.
  2. on women's national teams in every country.
  3. on all notable football clubs in every country.
  4. on all notable football players in every country.
  5. on all notable football stadiums in every country.
  6. on all notable football competitions in every country.

Improve articles:

  1. to make them comply with standards set up here.
  2. to make them featured articles eventually.

Categorize articles:

  1. to make it easy to find what you want to find.

Obtain non-copyrighted images to improve the quality of our articles

Members

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You can find a list of all Members here. Joining WikiProject Football is easy – just add your username to the bottom of the list. When joining the project, you should watch this page. This allows you to keep up-to-date with discussions about the project on the talk page.

Manual of style

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Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Articles

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Manual of style for a few common types of article:

For player naming conventions and disambiguation, please see the association football section at Wikipedia:Naming conventions.

Categories

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Info on in what category articles should be placed:

Templates

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Numerous templates exist, how to find them and how to use them:

Notability

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How to know if an article should be on Wikipedia or not:

Sources

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Members of the project have collected a list of sources and links that could be of help to editors wishing to expand articles. The links collection lists all the websites of governing bodies such as FIFA and UEFA. It also contains player databases for all levels of competition, from National level to club level. The booklist lists some of the books that project members own. These members can be contacted for help in sourcing if information from these books is needed.

Assessment department

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The Assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Association football related articles.

The proportion of all articles with an assessed project banner is:

100% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

95.8% known importance (estimate: some more articles may still need a banner)

   

FIFA national football teams coloured by article class (9 August 2019)
FIFA national women's football teams coloured by class (26 July 2023)

Article statistics

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Football articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 21 53 117 192
FL 4 24 263 291
GA 58 297 584 939
B 19 231 633 784 1,667
C 16 290 2,897 6,440 9,643
Start 6 362 14,066 74,140 1,562 90,136
Stub 32 33,186 162,795 17,449 213,462
List 3 16 291 8,356 89 8,755
Category 86,141 86,141
Disambig 166 166
File 16,555 16,555
Portal 458 458
Project 285 285
Redirect 11 7,127 7,138
Template 23,865 23,865
NA 1 132 18 151
Other 24 417 441
Assessed 45 1,014 51,448 253,646 135,032 19,100 460,285
Unassessed 15 1 78 94
Total 45 1,014 51,448 253,661 135,033 19,178 460,379

Open tasks

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New articles

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For a list of recently created football articles, see:

Requested articles

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Articles currently under a review

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This section lists those articles that are currently undergoing Peer review or are currently featured content candidates. Current good article candidates can be found on the good article nominations page under the Sports subheading.

Current featured content candidates
Article Status Peer Review FAC/FLC/FGTC
Suicidal Tour Current FAC FAC
2001–02 Gillingham F.C. season Current FAC FAC
Gedling Town F.C. Current FAC FAC
List of Intercontinental Cup winning managers Current FLC FLC
Current good article nominations
Article Status Peer Review GAN
2008 North American SuperLiga final Current GAN GAN
Mino Raiola Current GAN GAN
Darren Moore Current GAN GAN
New England Revolution in international competition Current GAN GAN
Gedling Miners Welfare F.C. Current GAN GAN
Adrar Stadium Current GAN GAN
Articles currently undergoing peer review
Article Status Peer Review Rating

Nominations for deletion and page moves

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Shortcuts
Important
If you're thinking about nominating an article for deletion (only articles, not templates or categories), please consider the following two alternative options:

Only if you think the deletion will be contested and debated is it necessary to go through AfD.

When listing a nomination or discussion here, please copy-paste the relevant notice to the discussion:

*<small>Note: This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Nominations for deletion and page moves|WikiProject Football]]'s list of association football-related deletions. ~~~~</small>
*<small>Note: This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Nominations for deletion and page moves|WikiProject Football]]'s list of association football-related page moves. ~~~~</small>
*<small>Note: This discussion has been included in [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Football#Nominations for deletion and page moves|WikiProject Football]]'s list of association football-related page discussions. ~~~~</small>
Article/Category/Template Nom Date
1940–41 Primera Fuerza season AfD 2024-08-23
List of foreign footballers in the Persian Gulf Pro League AfD 2024-08-28
Indrit Hithi AfD 2024-08-29
Anastas Kristo AfD 2024-08-29
Branden Turepu AfD 2024-08-29
Leonel Navarrete AfD 2024-08-30
758 Boyz SC AfD 2024-08-30
Patrik Brezina AfD 2024-08-30
Eduardo Bravo AfD 2024-08-30
FC Fortuna Sharhorod AfD 2024-08-30
Mikel Hoxha AfD 2024-08-30
Alban Dashi AfD 2024-08-30
WAFU U20 Women's Cup AfD 2024-08-31
Andrej Petrovský (2nd nomination) AfD 2024-08-31
Gehard Hasa AfD 2024-08-31
Zean Leonardi AfD 2024-09-01
Regan Frame AfD 2024-09-01
Reeves Cini AfD 2024-09-01
Rama Pratama AfD 2024-09-01
Sadik Basha AfD 2024-09-01
Omar Saint Andre AfD 2024-09-01
Gio Calixtro AfD 2024-09-01
Víctor Durán AfD 2024-09-01
Hiromu Kori AfD 2024-09-01
Abdulkarim Fardan AfD 2024-09-02
Kim Gwang-sok AfD 2024-09-02
Kye Song-hyok AfD 2024-09-02
Pak Chol-ryong AfD 2024-09-02
Brilant Hasaj AfD 2024-09-02
José Quintero (footballer, born 2001) AfD 2024-09-02
Lamberto Gama AfD 2024-09-02
Zico Luzinho Ingles Casimiro AfD 2024-09-02
Ahmet Schaefer AfD 2024-09-02
Mario Reyaan AfD 2024-09-02
Michael Bonette AfD 2024-09-02
Greg Boehme AfD 2024-09-02
Kim Hyok-son AfD 2024-09-03
Li Hi-yon AfD 2024-09-03
Francis Rasolofonirina AfD 2024-09-03
Ruben Danaj AfD 2024-09-03
Matúš Chropovský AfD 2024-09-03
Redon Danaj AfD 2024-09-03
Marcelino Da Costa Fernandes AfD 2024-09-03
Victory Sports Network AfD 2024-09-03
Bellevue Athletic FC AfD 2024-09-03
Mihai Apostol (footballer) AfD 2024-09-04
Yannick Dinane AfD 2024-09-04
Kenya Maeshiro AfD 2024-09-04
Red Star F.C. → Red Star FC RM 2024-08-27
Bobby Decordova-Reid → Bobby De Cordova-Ried RM 2024-08-29
TFF First League → 1. Lig RM 2024-08-29
Max Kilman → Maximilian Kilman RM 2024-09-01
Amadou Koné (Ivorian footballer) → Amadou Koné (footballer, born May 2005) RM 2024-09-04
Amadou Koné (Canadian soccer) → Amadou Koné (soccer, born January 2005) RM 2024-09-04
Template:USM Blida squad TfD 2024-09-02
Template:Tartu JK Tammeka squad TfD 2024-09-02
Template:Swedish football Division 5 seasons TfD 2024-09-02
Template:CA Bordj Bou Arréridj squad TfD 2024-09-03
Template:K.V. Oostende squad TfD 2024-09-03

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

Article alerts

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Today's featured articles

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Redirects for discussion

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Recognised content

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Some of the articles supported by WikiProject Football have reached featured article or featured list status (FA and FL, respectively), meaning they are amongst the very best content in Wikipedia. They are listed below; a bold title indicates the article was "today's featured article" or "today's featured list" for the date listed. Also included here are articles that are featured article candidates (FAC) that failed, those that have undergone peer review (PR) as part of an effort to get them to FA status, and those that have achieved good article (GA) status, the next-highest level of quality.

Featured content

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