Wikipedia:WikiProject Football

Project dedicated to association football content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

Quick facts
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.
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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:

99.8% assessed (estimate: some more article talk pages may still need a banner)

   

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

95.9% 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.

More information Current featured content candidates, Article ...
Current featured content candidates
Article Status Peer Review FAC/FLC/FGTC
Current good article nominations
Article Status Peer Review GAN
Ollie Watkins Current GAN GAN
James Justin Current GAN GAN
Edmond Weiskopf Current GAN GAN
Byron Harrison Current GAN GAN
Mitchell Cole Current GAN GAN
Dino Maamria Current GAN GAN
Broadhall Way Current GAN GAN
Ahmed Al-Kaf Current GAN GAN
John Goddard (footballer) Current GAN GAN
Sam Longson Current GAN GAN
Eddie Odhiambo Current GAN GAN
2020–21 AC Monza season Current GAN GAN
2021–22 AC Monza season Current GAN GAN
1986 Intercontinental Cup Current GAN GAN
2019 Recopa Sudamericana Current GAN GAN
2015 Recopa Sudamericana Current GAN GAN
2016 Recopa Sudamericana Current GAN GAN
Ebenezer Harcourt Current GAN GAN
2015 Suruga Bank Championship Current GAN GAN
Bangladesh Football Federation Current GAN GAN
Billy Vigar Current GAN GAN
2015 Copa Libertadores finals Current GAN GAN
2014 Copa Sudamericana finals Current GAN GAN
2017 Supercopa Argentina Current GAN GAN
1997 Supercopa Libertadores finals Current GAN GAN
1996 Copa Libertadores finals Current GAN GAN
Liam Kelly (footballer, born 1995) Current GAN GAN
2016 Copa Argentina Final Current GAN GAN
2017 Copa Argentina Final Current GAN GAN
2019 Copa Argentina final Current GAN GAN
1996 Intercontinental Cup Current GAN GAN
Real Madrid CF's 1927 tour of the Americas Current GAN GAN
2021 Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional Current GAN GAN
2023 Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional Current GAN GAN
Articles currently undergoing peer review
Article Status Peer Review Rating
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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.
More information Article/Category/Template, Nom ...
Article/Category/Template Nom Date
Thijs Dekker AfD 2026-02-17
Club Real América AfD 2026-02-27
Dilan Qela AfD 2026-03-07
Makhlouf Naït Rabah AfD 2026-03-07
Zakaria Silini (2nd nomination) AfD 2026-03-07
Dominik Sollfrank AfD 2026-03-07
Franko Paul AfD 2026-03-07
Jonathan Dinzeyi AfD 2026-03-08
Jersey Select AfD 2026-03-08
Jurgita Mačikunytė AfD 2026-03-09
Fatemeh Pasandideh AfD 2026-03-09
Hein Zeyar Lin (3rd nomination) AfD 2026-03-09
Football at the 2015 Palarong Pambansa AfD 2026-03-09
M61 derby AfD 2026-03-10
Calvin Stewart AfD 2026-03-11
Kedie JohnsonKédie JohnsonKédie Johnson RM 2026-02-28
Dave SundayDave Sunday (footballer) RM 2026-03-06
DPR Korea Premier Football LeagueDPRK Premier Football League RM 2026-03-08
Category:Winnipeg Fury CfD 2025-12-07
National association football teams by association CfD 2026-01-31
Template:Gangjin Swans WFC squad TfD 2026-03-06
Template:Hwacheon KSPO WFC squad TfD 2026-03-06
Template:USL Championship club map TfD 2026-03-07
Template:2007 in Kenyan football TfD 2026-03-07
Template:YYYY in Australian soccer category header TfD 2026-03-09
America UnitedCanadian National Soccer League RfD 2026-02-18
Mardin 1969 SporMardinspor RfD 2026-03-12
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Old deletion nominations can be found in the archives:

Article alerts

Today's featured article requests

Did you know

Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

(66 more...)

Categories for discussion

(71 more...)

Templates for discussion

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Redirects for discussion

Files for discussion

Good article nominees

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Good article reassessments

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.

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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.

More information Failed featured content and Peer reviewed articles, Failed featured content candidates ...
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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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