Wikipedia:WikiProject Football

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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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Articles[edit]

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[edit]

Info on in what category articles should be placed:

Templates[edit]

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

Notability[edit]

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

Sources[edit]

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[edit]

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:

98.6% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

94.3% 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[edit]

Open tasks[edit]

New articles[edit]

For a list of recently created football articles, see:

Requested articles[edit]

Articles currently under a review[edit]

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
1914 FA Cup final Current FAC FAC
1878 FA Cup final Current FAC FAC
List of UEFA Europa Conference League finals Current FLC FLC
List of FIFA Women's World Cup finals Current FLC FLC
List of New England Revolution seasons Current FLC FLC
Emirates Cup Current GTC GTC
2004–05 Arsenal F.C. season Current GTC GTC
Current good article nominations
Article Status Peer Review GAN
Child abuse in association football Current GAN GAN
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. Current GAN GAN
Gedling Town F.C. Current GAN GAN
John Rudge Current GAN GAN
2014–15 Arsenal F.C. season Current GAN GAN
Reiss Nelson Current GAN GAN
Leon Leuty Current GAN GAN
2008 North American SuperLiga final Current GAN GAN
Mino Raiola Current GAN GAN
1918 Copa del Rey final Current GAN GAN
Darren Moore Current GAN GAN
The Invincibles (English football) Current GAN GAN
Articles currently undergoing peer review
Article Status Peer Review Rating
Arena Corinthians Peer review PR C-class
Stadio Olimpico Peer review PR C-class

Nominations for deletion and page moves[edit]

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>
  • Once you have nominated an article for PROD or AfD, it is considered polite to inform the article's creator of the decision so that they have a chance to contest the deletion if need be. Templates for informing article creators can be found in the tag links above.
Article/Category/Template Nom Date
Hassan Houbeib AfD 2024-03-07
Choi Hyon-chol AfD 2024-03-20
Choi Won-nam AfD 2024-03-20
Kim Ho-gun AfD 2024-03-20
Alister De Bellotte AfD 2024-03-20
Casiano Mba AfD 2024-03-21
Prabath Ruwan AfD 2024-03-21
Kristoffer Jørgensen AfD 2024-03-22
Armel Oroko AfD 2024-03-23
Jorge Laguna AfD 2024-03-23
Leonel Pérez (footballer) AfD 2024-03-23
Sanders Saurajen AfD 2024-03-24
Ryo Nakano AfD 2024-03-24
Lázaro Reyes AfD 2024-03-25
Yorky Arriagada AfD 2024-03-25
Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament final +3 AfD 2024-03-25
List of FIFA Club World Cup broadcasters (2nd nomination) +5 AfD 2024-03-25
Carrie Staley (English footballer) AfD 2024-03-25
Derick Sequeira AfD 2024-03-25
Rhonard García AfD 2024-03-25
Richard Kell (footballer) AfD 2024-03-25
Ron Bean AfD 2024-03-26
Peter Antoniou AfD 2024-03-27
Chon Byong-ju AfD 2024-03-27
Ha Jung-won AfD 2024-03-27
Jaroslav Kravárik AfD 2024-03-27
2024 OFC Nations Cup2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup RM 2024-03-13
2024 NWSL Expansion Draft2024 NWSL expansion draft RM 2024-03-17
Misr StadiumNew Administrative Capital Stadium RM 2024-03-23
FIFA Arab CupArab cup RM 2024-03-23
Marta (footballer)Marta RM 2024-03-23
France Olympic football teamFrance national under-23 football team RM 2024-03-23

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

Article alerts[edit]

Did you know

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Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

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Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Featured article candidates

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

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Good topic candidates

Featured topic removal candidates

Peer reviews

Requested moves

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Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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Recognised content[edit]

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[edit]

Previously reviewed articles[edit]

This section lists articles that have gone through an external peer review. This includes articles that have been through a peer review, or a featured article or featured list nomination but were deemed to have failed to meet the criteria at the time. It also lists those articles were previously featured but subsequently de-listed due to a featured article review.

Vital articles[edit]

Some of the articles supported by WikiProject Football have been selected as Wikipedia's "vital articles". They are listed here.

Similar WikiProjects[edit]

For other WikiProjects on other forms of football, see:

Descendent WikiProjects[edit]

External links[edit]

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