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This is a WikiProject advice page on notability. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how notability may be interpreted within their area of interest.

An advice page has the status of an essay and is not a formal Wikipedia policy or guideline, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

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Note that past AfD closures made prior to the development of these criteria (5/2/2008) cannot be used as precedents for keeping articles. Any future changes to the criteria must be proposed and debated at WP:FOOTY.

Player notability

The player section of this notability guidance has been superseded by WP:Notability (sports), and is included below for information only as a record of the previous guidance that the Footy project came up with.

Players are deemed notable if they meet any of the criteria below:

Have played for a fully professional club at a national level of the league structure. This must be supported by evidence from a reliable source on a club by club basis for teams playing in leagues that are not recognised as being fully professional.
Have played in a competitive fixture between two fully professional clubs in a domestic, Continental or Intercontinental club competition.
Have played FIFA recognised senior international football or football at the Olympic games.
Pre-professional (amateur era) footballers to have played at the national level of league football are considered notable (no other level of amateur football confers notability).

Should a person fail to meet these additional criteria, they may still be notable under Wikipedia:Notability.

Club notability

Per Wikipedia:Notability (sports)#Teams, teams are required to meet the general notability guideline. The following guidance may indicate at what level teams generally have enough coverage to meet the GNG.

Teams that have played in the national cup (or the national level of the league structure in countries where no cup exists) generally meet WP:GNG criteria. Teams that are not eligible for national cups must be shown to meet broader WP:N criteria.

Country-specific criteria:

England: Clubs that play or have played at step 6 (level 10), or in the FA Cup, FA Trophy, FA Amateur Cup or FA Vase generally meet WP:GNG criteria.

League notability

Leagues whose members are eligible for national cups are generally notable.
Leagues that are a country's highest level are generally notable.
Other leagues are assumed non-notable unless they can be shown to meet broader WP:N criteria.

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 ==Club notability==
 '''Per [[Wikipedia:Notability (sports)#Teams]], teams are required to meet the [[WP:GNG|general notability guideline]]. The following guidance may indicate at what level teams ''generally'' have enough coverage to meet the GNG.'''
-:Teams that have played in the national cup (or the national level of the league structure in countries where no cup exists), including qualifying rounds, generally meet [[WP:GNG]] criteria. Teams that are not eligible for national cups must be shown to meet broader WP:N criteria.
+:Teams that have played in the national cup (or the national level of the league structure in countries where no cup exists) generally meet [[WP:GNG]] criteria. Teams that are not eligible for national cups must be shown to meet broader WP:N criteria.
 Country-specific criteria:
 *England: Clubs that play or have played at step 6 (level 10), or in the FA Cup, FA Trophy, FA Amateur Cup or FA Vase generally meet [[WP:GNG]] criteria.