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

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

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

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

Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Articles

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

Info on in what category articles should be placed:

Templates

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

Notability

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

Sources

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

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:

99.4% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

95% 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

Open tasks

New articles

For a list of recently created football articles, see:

Requested articles

Articles currently under a review

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
ArticleStatusPeer ReviewFAC/FLC
List of UEFA Europa Conference League finalsCurrent FLCFLC
List of New England Revolution managersCurrent FLCFLC
Current good article nominations
ArticleStatusPeer ReviewGAN
Gedling Town F.C.Current GANGAN
John RudgeCurrent GANGAN
2014–15 Arsenal F.C. seasonCurrent GANGAN
Leon LeutyCurrent GANGAN
2008 North American SuperLiga finalCurrent GANGAN
Stadio OlimpicoCurrent GANGAN
Mino RaiolaCurrent GANGAN
Darren MooreCurrent GANGAN
New England Revolution in international competitionCurrent GANGAN
2024 EFL Trophy finalCurrent GANGAN
Gedling Miners Welfare F.C.Current GANGAN
Clara SchilkeCurrent GANGAN
Suicidal TourCurrent GANGAN
Articles currently undergoing peer review
ArticleStatusPeer ReviewRating
Nestory IrankundaPeer reviewPRGood article

Nominations for deletion and page moves

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/TemplateNomDate
Albert Tjåland (2nd nomination)AfD2024-04-30
Sirimongkol RattanapoomAfD2024-05-06
Isaac Álvarez (footballer)AfD2024-05-06
Christian Nanetti (2nd nomination)AfD2024-05-07
Ibrahim Babangida (footballer)AfD2024-05-10
Francis MensahAfD2024-05-12
List of MLS Cup broadcastersAfD2024-05-13
Abdullah Majrashi (footballer, born 1990)AfD2024-05-19
Mohammed Al-AbdooliAfD2024-05-19
Ziyad Al-MutairiAfD2024-05-19
Abdulellah JermanAfD2024-05-19
Tomáš ChovanecAfD2024-05-19
Vann TailameyAfD2024-05-19
Logan CousinsAfD2024-05-20
Lukáš JánošíkAfD2024-05-20
2022 Liga 1 U-14AfD2024-05-20
Ally RidgersAfD2024-05-20
FC GiffarnaAfD2024-05-20
FK Kozara (Sweden)AfD2024-05-20
BK SkottfintAfD2024-05-20
Damián van der VaartAfD2024-05-20
Arya Igami TarhaniAfD2024-05-20
Bivesh GurungAfD2024-05-20
Alexander FrankAfD2024-05-21
Valmir Nafiu (3rd nomination)AfD2024-05-22
Josue Danny Ortiz TrophyAfD2024-05-22
Gasper CrastoAfD2024-05-22
Jin In-cholAfD2024-05-24
Jo Hye-hyokAfD2024-05-24
Myong Song-cholAfD2024-05-24
2022 Liga 1 U-16AfD2024-05-24
Willian ForteAfD2024-05-25
Job BogmisAfD2024-05-25
Josef Kopecký (footballer)AfD2024-05-25
Judaism in association footballHistory of the Jews in association footballRM2024-05-19
James Wilson (English footballer)James Wilson (footballer, born 1995)RM2024-05-21
Alex Bone → ?RM2024-05-23
AFC Champions League -2AFC Champions League TwoRM2024-05-24
AFC President's CupAFC Challenge LeagueRM2024-05-24
Çorum F.K.Çorum FKRM2024-05-24
Category:Tokyo Musashino United FCCfD2024-05-06
Category:Arabian Gulf Futsal CupCfD2024-05-16
Template:FC Botoșani seasonsTfD2024-05-24
Template:FC Kagura ShimaneTfD2024-05-24
Template:FC Universitatea Cluj seasonsTfD2024-05-24

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

Article alerts

Today's featured article requests

Did you know

Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

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Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

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Featured article reviews

Featured topic removal candidates

Good article reassessments

Peer reviews

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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Recognised content

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

Previously reviewed articles

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

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

Similar WikiProjects

For other WikiProjects on other forms of football, see:

Descendent WikiProjects

External links

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