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Wikipedia:WikiProject Football

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:

99.9% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

96.1% 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
Article Status Peer Review FAC/FLC/FGTC
Current good article nominations
Article Status Peer Review GAN
Beth Mead Current GAN GAN
Adrar Stadium Current GAN GAN
Frank Lampard Current GAN GAN
Jackie Stamps Current GAN GAN
Simon Olsson Current GAN GAN
Louis Tomlinson Current GAN GAN
Articles currently undergoing peer review
Article Status Peer Review Rating
New England Revolution in international competition Peer review PR Good 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/Template Nom Date
Fernando Fonseca (footballer, born 1993) AfD 2025-02-04
Nufan AfD 2025-02-15
Emil Kalous AfD 2025-02-19
Taku Morinaga AfD 2025-02-20
1st Gulf cup for Veteran Players AfD 2025-02-20
Khaldoun Ibrahim AfD 2025-02-21
Faisal Jassim AfD 2025-02-22
Ahmed Abid Ali AfD 2025-02-22
Stuart Youngman AfD 2025-02-23
Baba Sylla AfD 2025-02-24
Bahia (footballer, born 1997) AfD 2025-02-24
Jefferson Souza (footballer) AfD 2025-02-24
Pety AfD 2025-02-24
Higor (footballer, born 1998) AfD 2025-02-24
Montrose Works F.C. AfD 2025-02-24
Easton Rangers AfD 2025-02-25
Tomoki Menda AfD 2025-02-25
Shuhei Yamada AfD 2025-02-25
Naofumi Tanaka AfD 2025-02-25
Shoichiro Sakamoto AfD 2025-02-25
Ryuya Motoda AfD 2025-02-25
Riku Moriyasu AfD 2025-02-25
Kenya Takahashi AfD 2025-02-25
Naoki Ogawa AfD 2025-02-25
Kévin Le Bras AfD 2025-02-25
Shota Saito (footballer, born 1994) AfD 2025-02-25
Damien Marie AfD 2025-02-25
Gael Mabiala AfD 2025-02-25
Anton Demenshchin AfD 2025-02-25
Diego Faria AfD 2025-02-25
Koichi Ae AfD 2025-02-25
Tsutomu Fujihara AfD 2025-02-25
Naoki Hara AfD 2025-02-25
Kanchanathat Poomsri AfD 2025-02-25
2015 Central New York Classic AfD 2025-02-25
Andrey Almeida AfD 2025-02-26
Caitlin Robba AfD 2025-02-26
Uranio Pereira AfD 2025-02-26
Loun Srdanović AfD 2025-02-26
Konosuke Kusazumi AfD 2025-02-26
Gilsinho (footballer, born 1991) AfD 2025-02-26
Pedro Vitor (footballer, born February 1998) AfD 2025-02-26
João Arthur AfD 2025-02-26
Fernando Gomes (footballer, born 1993) AfD 2025-02-26
Lucas Caniggia AfD 2025-02-26
Universal Peace Foundation AfD 2025-02-26
Raphaël van Praag AfD 2025-02-27
Mount Everest Nepal (2nd nomination) AfD 2025-02-27
That Forward Center Died at Dawn AfD 2025-02-27
Fabrice Guérit AfD 2025-02-28
Sabita Rana Magar AfD 2025-02-28
Rashid Alhassan (footballer, born 2000) AfD 2025-02-28
Lexington SC - Louisville City Rivalry AfD 2025-02-28
Dave Lamont (footballer) AfD 2025-02-28
Richard O'Connor (footballer) (2nd nomination) AfD 2025-02-28
Non-League footballNon-league football RM 2025-02-16
Dunaújváros FCDunaújváros FC (1952) RM 2025-02-16
Biatorbágyi SEViadukt SE-Biatorbágy RM 2025-02-16
Sophia Wilson (soccer)Sophia Wilson RM 2025-02-22
Jan KorteJan Korte (footballer) RM 2025-02-23
2025 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship2025 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Qualifiers RM 2025-02-24
2025 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualificationTemplate:F2025 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Qualifiers RM 2025-02-24
Allan (footballer, born 2004)Allan Elias (footballer) RM 2025-02-25
Janine BeckieJanine Sonis RM 2025-02-25
PSV (women)PSV Eindhoven (women) RM 2025-02-25
Rochester New York FCRochester Rhinos RM 2025-02-26
Michelle Cooper (soccer)Michelle Cooper RM 2025-02-27

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

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Categories for discussion

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Requested moves

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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.

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.

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