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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?
  • ... 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

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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:

99.4% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

95.3% 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
Current good article nominations
Article Status Peer Review 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
René Ressejac-Duparc Current GAN GAN
Pavel Mareš Current GAN GAN
Ollie Watkins Current GAN GAN
James Justin Current GAN GAN
Edmond Weiskopf Current GAN GAN
2023 EFL League Two play-off final Current GAN GAN
Byron Harrison Current GAN GAN
1998–99 Manchester United F.C. season Current GAN GAN
Mitchell Cole Current GAN GAN
Dino Maamria Current GAN GAN
Broadhall Way Current GAN GAN
Ahmed Al-Kaf 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
François Duhamel AfD 2025-10-16
Dragiša Gudelj AfD 2025-10-18
Tony Jones (football commentator) AfD 2025-10-22
Destan Norman AfD 2025-10-22
Kenan Hot AfD 2025-10-22
Jonathan Bolanos (soccer) AfD 2025-10-23
Matt Bolduc AfD 2025-10-23
Jay Bolt AfD 2025-10-23
Hakim Karamoko AfD 2025-10-23
Marjan Belčev AfD 2025-10-23
Omar Rezgane AfD 2025-10-23
Kael-Florent Montout AfD 2025-10-23
Kabir Thaufiq AfD 2025-10-23
Thomas Saikhom AfD 2025-10-23
Angel Madzhirov AfD 2025-10-24
Ibuki Nagae AfD 2025-10-24
Yacine Babouche AfD 2025-10-24
Alex Varney AfD 2025-10-24
Dimitar Krushovski AfD 2025-10-25
Goce Markovski AfD 2025-10-25
Matt Brucker AfD 2025-10-25
Marc Godelman AfD 2025-10-25
Ryan Fessler AfD 2025-10-26
Gabe Threadgold AfD 2025-10-26
Safi Belghomari AfD 2025-10-26
Kifi Cabrera AfD 2025-10-26
Marvin Mariche AfD 2025-10-26
Aleksandar Mitushev AfD 2025-10-27
Krasimir Durchov AfD 2025-10-27
Mohamed Amroune (born 1989) AfD 2025-10-28
Lal Mohan Hansda AfD 2025-10-28
Kraig Bonanken AfD 2025-10-28
Jake Bond AfD 2025-10-28
Gour Naskar AfD 2025-10-28
Ostuni Calcio 24 AfD 2025-10-28
Sporting DelhiSC DelhiSC Delhi RM 2025-10-22
Michael Halliday (soccer)Michael Halliday (American soccer) RM 2025-10-25
Michael Halliday (footballer)Michael Halliday (Northern Irish footballer) RM 2025-10-25
Alexis Vega (Mexican footballer)Alexis Vega RM 2025-10-25
Johan Vásquez (footballer, born 1998)Johan Vásquez RM 2025-10-25
Argentine Primera DivisiónAFA Liga Profesional de Fútbol RM 2025-10-25
Fábio Carvalho (footballer, born 2002)Fábio CarvalhoFábio Carvalho RM 2025-10-28
Category:Ottawa Intrepid CfD 2025-10-03
Category:Association football player of the year awards by club CfD 2025-10-10
Category:Defunct football clubs in the Soviet Union CfD 2025-10-21
Category:Albert Swifts F.C. players CfD 2025-10-23
Template:Belarus national football team results TfD 2025-10-26
Pokal HervisSlovenian Football Cup RfD 2025-10-10
2026–27 AFC Champions League TwoAFC Champions League Two RfD 2025-10-24

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

Files for discussion

Featured article candidates

Good article nominees

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Good article reassessments

Requested moves

(14 more...)

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

(59 more...)

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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