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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

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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

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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

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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

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Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Articles

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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

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Info on in what category articles should be placed:

Templates

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

Notability

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

Sources

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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

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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:

96.2% 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

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Open tasks

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New articles

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For a list of recently created football articles, see:

Requested articles

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Articles currently under a review

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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
Serie A Player of the Month Current FLC FLC
Current good article nominations
Article Status Peer Review GAN
Beth Mead Current GAN GAN
Frank Lampard Current GAN GAN
Simon Olsson Current GAN GAN
Louis Tomlinson Current GAN GAN
1937 FA Cup final Current GAN GAN
Sam Hughes (footballer) Current GAN GAN
Big Six (Premier League) Current GAN GAN
Samantha Kane Current GAN GAN
Arthur Herbert Thompson Current GAN GAN
Juventus FC (women) Current GAN GAN
René Ressejac-Duparc Current GAN GAN
Pavel Mareš Current GAN GAN
Ollie Watkins Current GAN GAN
Articles currently undergoing peer review
Article Status Peer Review Rating

Nominations for deletion and page moves

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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
Alopua Petoa (3rd nomination) AfD 2025-06-04
Christelle Bedran AfD 2025-06-07
Ithamar Romanos AfD 2025-06-10
Syd Protheroe AfD 2025-06-13
Eli Lockaby AfD 2025-06-15
List of Samsunspor presidents AfD 2025-06-16
FC St. Louis AfD 2025-06-17
Shohei Kamada AfD 2025-06-17
Yuya Nakamura (footballer, born 1987) AfD 2025-06-17
Masahiro Iwata AfD 2025-06-17
Fernando de Noronha football team AfD 2025-06-17
Reid Schmitt (2nd nomination) AfD 2025-06-17
Luis Gonzalez (soccer, born 1989) AfD 2025-06-17
Damián Kachút AfD 2025-06-17
Jaden Heskey AfD 2025-06-17
Yuki Igari AfD 2025-06-18
Shohei Yanagizaki AfD 2025-06-18
César Zamora AfD 2025-06-19
Darren Amoo AfD 2025-06-19
Pinguim AfD 2025-06-19
Jeferson (footballer, born 1989) AfD 2025-06-19
Nilay van der Ploeg AfD 2025-06-19
Illinois ODP AfD 2025-06-19
Vitor Gava AfD 2025-06-20
Jindřich Stehlík AfD 2025-06-20
Brandon Barnes (soccer) AfD 2025-06-21
Eric Barnes (soccer) AfD 2025-06-21
Giuseppe Barone (2nd nomination) AfD 2025-06-21
Kyotaro Yamakoshi AfD 2025-06-21
Kyosuke Narita AfD 2025-06-21
Sillhövda AIK AfD 2025-06-21
Bennett Sneddon AfD 2025-06-21
Masato Sasaki (footballer, born 1992) AfD 2025-06-21
Edílson (footballer, born 1987) AfD 2025-06-21
Hiroki Morisaki AfD 2025-06-21
Justin Fojo AfD 2025-06-21
Sandor Bustamante AfD 2025-06-22
Houston Oldham AfD 2025-06-22
Hussain Kankouni AfD 2025-06-22
Ryuji Okada AfD 2025-06-22
Kazuki Egashira AfD 2025-06-22
List of Paris Saint-Germain FC (women) presidents AfD 2025-06-22
Kaladan Park AfD 2025-06-22
Maria Zubková AfD 2025-06-23
Oliver RyanOliver Ryan (footballer) RM 2025-06-08
Nuno Mendes (footballer, born 2002)Nuno Mendes RM 2025-06-09
John Brodie (footballer, born 1862)Jack Brodie RM 2025-06-11
2023–24 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round2023–24 UEFA Champions League qualifying RM 2025-06-17
Sporting CP (women's football)Sporting CP (women) RM 2025-06-17
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Margao)Fatorda Stadium RM 2025-06-19
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Kochi)Kaloor Stadium RM 2025-06-19
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Shillong)Polo Ground, Shillong RM 2025-06-19
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, DelhiNehru Stadium, Delhi RM 2025-06-19
1930–31 Yugoslav Football Championship1931 Yugoslav Football Championship RM 2025-06-22
1931–32 Yugoslav Football Championship1932 Yugoslav Football Championship RM 2025-06-22
1932–33 Yugoslav Football Championship1933 Yugoslav Football Championship RM 2025-06-22
Template:Chungju Hummel squad TfD 2025-06-18
Template:Senegal squad 2012 African Women's Championship TfD 2025-06-21
GoonersArsenal F.C. supporters +3 RfD 2025-06-06
Sa Aung Ko Ko RfD 2025-06-20
Gautam Butalia RfD 2025-06-22

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

Article alerts

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Today's featured article requests

Did you know

Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

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Categories for discussion

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Templates for discussion

Redirects for discussion

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Files for discussion

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

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Good article reassessments

Requests for comments

Requested moves

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Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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Recognised content

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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.

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Previously reviewed articles

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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

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

Similar WikiProjects

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For other WikiProjects on other forms of football, see:

Descendent WikiProjects

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