Wikipedia:WikiProject Football

Not to be confused with Wikipedia:WikiProject American football, Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian rules football, Wikipedia:WikiProject Canadian football, or Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League.

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?
  • ... that the name of a Portland soccer team refers both to sausages and long-distance goals? (12 March 2025)
  • ... that Radim Novák conceded a goal directly from a corner kick in the first match of the season, but his team went on to win the league? (13 March 2025)
  • ... that Comorian football club Djabal Club d'Iconi were deducted two points in the 2023–24 season after a player was found guilty of witchcraft? (13 March 2025)
  • ... that Jake Brown, although born with cerebral palsy, made dozens of appearances for the mainstream association football club Askam United? (21 March 2025)
  • ... that footballer Franco Mastantuono played youth tennis on a national-level? (16 June 2025)
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

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Assessment

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:

99.8% 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

Football articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 20 55 134 210
FL 3 24 270 297
GA 52 291 584 927
B 18 216 838 1,335 2,407
C 16 300 3,610 9,147 7 13,080
Start 6 353 16,269 88,621 2 527 105,778
Stub 31,034 158,328 18,332 207,694
List 3 12 331 10,447 1,767 12,560
Category 118,101 118,101
Disambig 181 181
File 23,394 23,394
Portal 458 458
Project 289 289
Redirect 6 605 11,041 11,652
Template 26,129 26,129
NA 10 10
Other 1 46 459 506
Assessed 44 956 52,459 269,517 180,064 20,633 523,673
Unassessed 20 1,211 1,231
Total 44 956 52,459 269,537 180,064 21,844 524,904
See also: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Football articles by quality log

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
Article Status Peer Review FAC/FLC/FGTC
1980–81 Gillingham F.C. season Current FAC FAC
List of international goals scored by Dimitar Berbatov Current FLC FLC
Current good article nominations
Article Status Peer Review GAN
James Justin Current GAN GAN
Byron Harrison Current GAN GAN
Mitchell Cole Current GAN GAN
Dino Maamria Current GAN GAN
Broadhall Way Current GAN GAN
Ahmed Al-Kaf Current GAN GAN
John Goddard (footballer) Current GAN GAN
Eddie Odhiambo Current GAN GAN
2020–21 AC Monza season Current GAN GAN
2021–22 AC Monza season Current GAN GAN
1986 Intercontinental Cup Current GAN GAN
2019 Recopa Sudamericana Current GAN GAN
2015 Recopa Sudamericana Current GAN GAN
2016 Recopa Sudamericana Current GAN GAN
Ebenezer Harcourt Current GAN GAN
2015 Suruga Bank Championship Current GAN GAN
Billy Vigar Current GAN GAN
2022 FIFA World Cup Group C Current GAN GAN
2015 Copa Libertadores finals Current GAN GAN
2014 Copa Sudamericana finals Current GAN GAN
2017 Supercopa Argentina Current GAN GAN
1997 Supercopa Libertadores finals Current GAN GAN
1996 Copa Libertadores finals Current GAN GAN
Liam Kelly (footballer, born 1995) Current GAN GAN
2016 Copa Argentina final Current GAN GAN
2017 Copa Argentina final Current GAN GAN
2019 Copa Argentina final Current GAN GAN
1996 Intercontinental Cup Current GAN GAN
1986 Copa Interamericana Current GAN GAN
Real Madrid CF's 1927 tour of the Americas Current GAN GAN
2021 Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional Current GAN GAN
2023 Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional Current GAN GAN
Southwell City F.C. Current GAN GAN
Marek Heinz Current GAN GAN
Marek Ujlaky (footballer, born 1974) Current GAN GAN
Articles currently undergoing peer review
Article Status Peer Review Rating

Nominations for deletion and page moves

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Football
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>
  • 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
Higher Education Commission FC AfD 2026-05-16
Keisuke Ota (footballer, born 1981) AfD 2026-05-27
Emmanuel Mahi Ebem Godfroid AfD 2026-05-29
BeritaSatu Sports AfD 2026-05-29
Peter Vaško AfD 2026-05-30
Darío Doherr AfD 2026-05-30
Serafín García AfD 2026-05-30
Jean José Razafimandimby AfD 2026-05-30
Peter Egharevba AfD 2026-05-31
Federico García (footballer) AfD 2026-05-31
Detius Muni AfD 2026-05-31
Stepan Kuntsevich AfD 2026-06-01
Flame United F.C. AfD 2026-06-01
ERCO-BRO Nationals F.C. AfD 2026-06-01
Leeward Islands Tournament AfD 2026-06-02
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.–Chelsea F.C. rivalry AfD 2026-06-03
Ligue Corse de Football AfD 2026-06-03
Mario Pacilli AfD 2026-06-04
Kawan → Kawan Gabriel da SilvaKawan Gabriel da Silva RM 2026-05-21
Vitinha (footballer, born February 2000) → Vitinha RM 2026-05-30
Roberto Lopes (footballer, born 1992) → Pico LopesPico Lopes RM 2026-06-02
Julián López (footballer, born 1987) → Julián López de LermaJulián López de Lerma RM 2026-06-03
Tim Payne (footballer) → Tim Payne RM 2026-06-03
Category:Campeonato Paranaense players CfD 2026-05-15
Category:Futsal clubs established in 1943 CfD 2026-05-30
Template:Indonesia squad 2006 Asian Games TfD 2026-05-20
Template:Indonesia squad 2014 Asian Games TfD 2026-05-20
Template:Indonesia squad 2018 Asian Games TfD 2026-05-20
Template:Indonesia squad 2022 Asian Games TfD 2026-05-20
Template:2027 USL season by team TfD 2026-05-20
Template:Netherlands Antilles squad 1973 CONCACAF Championship TfD 2026-05-28
Template:ZED FC matches TfD 2026-05-30
Template:New Caledonia Second Level TfD 2026-06-02

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

Article alerts

See also: WikiProject Deletion sorting/Football, where deletion nominations are sometimes listed.
For BLPPRODs, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Unreferenced BLPs/Full list.

Today's featured articles

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

Files for discussion

Miscellany for deletion

  • undated – User:TheSoccerBoy (talk · edit · hist) MfDed was closed; see discussion

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

(29 more...)

Featured article reviews

Requested moves

(9 more...)

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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Recognised content

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/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

For an up-to-date WikiProject Council directory listing for football, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Sports § Association football, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Task forces and sub-projects.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Article alerts are available, updated by AAlertBot. More information...

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