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:

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

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

96% 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
2009–10 Notts County F.C. season Current FAC FAC
Teddy Wynyard Current FAC FAC
2004–05 Gillingham F.C. season Current FAC FAC
List of Major League Soccer seasons Current FLC FLC
List of Chivas USA managers Current FLC FLC
Current good article nominations
Article Status Peer Review GAN
Darren Moore Current GAN GAN
New England Revolution in international competition Current GAN GAN
Gedling Miners Welfare F.C. Current GAN GAN
Warren Zaïre-Emery Current GAN GAN
Beth Mead Current GAN GAN
Adrar Stadium Current GAN GAN
Articles currently undergoing peer review
Article Status Peer Review Rating
Thomas Tuchel 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 ]'s list of association football-related deletions. ~~~~</small>
*<small>Note: This discussion has been included in ]'s list of association football-related page moves. ~~~~</small>
*<small>Note: This discussion has been included in ]'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
PS Klabat Jaya Sakti AfD 2024-11-15
List of Serie A broadcasters (2nd nomination) AfD 2024-11-21
Ryuolivier Iwamoto AfD 2024-11-21
Brayan Velásquez AfD 2024-11-22
Johanne Guillou AfD 2024-11-25
Kanta Nagakawa AfD 2024-11-25
Carlos Utrilla AfD 2024-11-26
Mardan Blue Star FC AfD 2024-11-26
Chand FC Layyah AfD 2024-11-26
Bruno Bogojević AfD 2024-11-26
Cherdsak Chaiyabutr AfD 2024-11-26
Sky Sport Serie A AfD 2024-11-27
2009–10 FC Nistru season AfD 2024-11-28
Piotr Bartkowiak AfD 2024-11-28
Daniel Jara (2nd nomination) AfD 2024-11-28
Pavol Zemanovič AfD 2024-11-29
Alejandro Muñóz AfD 2024-11-30
Shingo Shibata AfD 2024-11-30
Teppei Uesugi AfD 2024-11-30
List of Saint Louis Athletica players AfD 2024-12-01
San Diego Pumitas AfD 2024-12-01
Alabama Spirit AfD 2024-12-01
Vincenzo Patrick Guglielmelli AfD 2024-12-02
Jonh González AfD 2024-12-02
Félix Rodríguez (Mexican footballer) AfD 2024-12-02
Luis Torres (footballer, born 1992) AfD 2024-12-02
George Silva AfD 2024-12-02
Městský fotbalový stadion Miroslava ValentyMiroslav Valenta Municipal Football Stadium RM 2024-10-28
November 2024 Amsterdam attacks2024 Amsterdam football riot RM 2024-11-09
Paris Saint-Germain AcademyParis Saint-Germain Youth Academy RM 2024-11-12
1. Wiener Neustädter SC (2008)1. Wiener Neustädter SC RM 2024-11-25
Category:FK Rabotnički players CfD 2024-11-24
Wokingham TownWokingham Town F.C. RfD 2024-11-30
UEFA Euro 2028 squadsUEFA Euro 2028 RfD 2024-12-01

Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

Article alerts

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Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

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Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Featured article candidates

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

Featured topic removal candidates

Requests for comments

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.