Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject on Football, which focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Association football related articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 programme.
The rating system allows the project to monitor the quality of articles in our subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. It is also utilized by the Wikipedia 1.0 program to prepare for static releases of Wikipedia content. Please note, however, that these ratings are primarily intended for the internal use of the project, and do not necessarily imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.
2. How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
Just add {{WikiProject Football}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
3. Someone put a {{WikiProject Football}} template on an article, but it doesn't seem to be within the project's scope. What should I do?
Because of the large number of articles we deal with, we occasionally make mistakes and add tags to articles that shouldn't have them. If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the talk page of this department (or directly with the person who tagged the article).
4. Who can assess articles?
Any member of the football WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Editors who are not participants in this project are also welcome to assess articles, but should defer to consensus within the project in case of procedural disputes.
5. How do I rate an article?
Check the quality scale and select the level that best matches the state of the article; then, follow the instructions below to add the rating to the project banner on the article's talk page.
6. Can I request that someone else rate an article?
Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
8. Where can I get more comments about an article?
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10. Aren't the ratings subjective?
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Instructions
Quality assessment
An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Football}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.
The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Football}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject Football|importance=???}}
The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):
Article is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for articles that have achieved international notability within its subject or field.
Articles strictly related to the game: rules of the game, positions, confederations, etc.
Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article.
Any other player, manager or team. Football-related lists, season 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 importance to be assessed)
FIFA national football teams coloured by article class (25 December 2016)
Requests for assessment
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use Wikipedia:Peer review instead.
Sticking to C-class. The lead should summarize some points of the article. Also some parts are unreferenced. A peer review may help. FairyTailRocks 09:04, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Assessed to B-class. I assume that the offline sources are reliable and the "General" sources support the unsourced season. FairyTailRocks 10:24, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Full of references but assessed to C-class. His career statistics are unsourced, also his time with the two other clubs needs expansion. FairyTailRocks 10:24, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Juan Aurich - Improved the lead section, expanded the history section, added a colors and badge section and added a stadium section. A new assessment of the expansion of this article is welcomed. --MicroX (talk) 05:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Demoted to Start-class. It has a few references with almost the whole article may contain original research. FairyTailRocks 09:20, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
2014 New England Revolution season - I've been hard at work updating the New England Revolution's current season page. I know it's not some super article, but I believe it's above Stub level at this point. Could someone take a look at give it a new rating, thanks? Nsideris24 (talk) 21:54, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Graded as C-class. The article has quite a bit of information with proper sources, but it needs to be updated with the rest of the season (i.e. Month by Month only goes til May). Christiangamer7 (talk) 16:26, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Graded as a B-Class. This is a well written article that follows the six categories for a B-Class article. Some parts may need to be cleaned up such as the phrase "the second goal was a beautifully worked backheel finish." sounding 5oo much of opinion and not like an encyclopedic entry. Some more sources may be needed to be added before this goes on to be a GA or A-Class article. Christiangamer7 (talk) 07:10, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Upgrading it to C-Class. Although the article has a large amount of references, I personally feel the introduction needs to be shortened and the information inside of it should be made into its own section of the body of the article. I could see this becoming a B-Class article with just a bit more work on it. Christiangamer7 (talk) 07:10, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Not done. This one seems on the bubble between C and B, and could be a solid B with some modest improvements. There is very little info regarding his early MLS career. Cites are ok but there is room for improvement — I've tagged a few places. And the amount of WP:Proseline throughout the text is a bit much. Barryjjoyce (talk) 02:48, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Australia Cup - Improved the lead section, expanded the trophy section and added a history section. A new assessment of the expansion of this article is welcomed and would appreciate some feedback.--2nyte (talk) 00:39, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Not done. This article has certainly improved from the Stub that it was in 2014. The article looks to be at the upper end of the Start class, and could be bumped up to C-class following additional modest improvements. The overall length is a bit short, and nine references is ok but could use more. Barryjjoyce (talk) 03:08, 17 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, it certainly meets B-class now. Not far from GA-class, but it'll take quite a lot of work to get to FA. – PeeJay21:25, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Al-Shaab Stadium - I rebuilt the whole article after it was very poor, unorganized and most of it wasn't referenced. I added licensed photos, videos and backed the information with loads of references. I also brought a a lot of information from official responsible people. I hope it gets an assessment for quality scale and the importance one. Hashima20 (talk) 21:51, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Lucas Pratto - Article improved in the past month with new headings, sub-headings, new picture, stats and references. Also better writing and style in general. Requesting reassessment regarding Quality and Importance (player has participated for five-years in top-level leagues and has achieved moderate notability by winning awards). Felipe Bini (talk) 02:35, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Alessandro Del Piero - I know it has been assessed in the past and deemed underserving of an upgrade as the changes suggested were not made by other users, but I have cleaned up this article and am now looking to have this upgraded to GA class; I have actually fixed all the changes suggested - I have taken away most of the POV and flowery language, and I have expanded the article, also adding many more sources. Thanks! Messirulez (talk) 15:29, 25 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Not done. Article already listed as B-class. If you would like the article checked for a higher assessment, take it to WP:GA. C67903:41, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Stephane Sparagna - The article has been expanded to include up to date statistics as well as a description of his club career to date and his international experience. I am requesting that the article be reassessed and perhaps classed as a Start or C-class. Liam (talk 23:40, 12 December (GMT)
Belgium women's national football team - This article is still marked as "Stub"-class, but it has undoubtedly improved way beyond that! It has probably been C-class quality for a while already, and after many recent edits, I would be so bold as to say it may already be B-class. –Sygmoral (talk) 00:32, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Harry Beadles - Expanded this article quite a bit recently. Wondering if it's worthy of moving up to B-class. Any pointers on improving it would be very welcome as well. Kosack (talk) 09:07, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ludwig Augustinsson - Have created and worked on this page for a year now, I was wondering if there were chances of receiving a higher grade than C, since it was set when the article were with way less content. // Psemmler (talk) 12:48, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Francesco Totti - Hello. This article failed the GA review, but I was wondering if it were still good enough to be upgraded from C-class to B-class, as a few editors and I have cleaned up the prose and I have also added many more citations. I was also wondering if it should be upgraded from Mid to High-importance on the WikiProject Football's Importance scale. Thank you! Best regards, Messirulez (talk) 03:30, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sebastian Giovinco - While the article awaits a GA review, I was wondering if this article warranted an upgrade from C-class to B-class, as a few editors and I have cleaned up the prose and added many more citations. I'm not sure if it warrants an upgrade from Mid to High-importance on the WikiProject Football's Importance scale, but I was also wondering if it should be considered for one. Thank you! Best, Messirulez (talk) 14:27, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
1954 FIFA World Cup Final I have greatly expanded the article, adding inter alia historical context, background on the Hungarian and German 1954 football teams, material on team preparations and tactics, controversies, relevant developments after the match, as well as quotes and many citations. The article was rated "start" level quality before, I would be grateful for a review. Henry Kaspar (talk) 21:46, 14 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
As for the unsourced areas, I would be grateful for a little guidance. The only areas were this applied were, in my perception, the "path to the final, Hungary/West Germany" - which mostly lists opponents and results prior to the final, as documented on the main FIFA 1954 World Cup site - and "match - summary", which briefly retells what everyone can see on youtube. Still, I added a reference to the FIFA's 1954 World Cup site, and another to a youtube clip with the full TV coverage. Further sourced the claim that Germany's second goal would not have counted if the referee had called a foul.
There a couple of instances where the language may still be a tad loose and that I would have drafted differently, but I did not want to edit to heavily the work of previous authors out of respect for their efforts. Henry Kaspar (talk) 15:49, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. In order to achieve a higher rating, the most important things are citations and prose of wording. For a WP:GA class article, almost every sentence should have a source. The prose is also a big factor as it must be neutral and unbiased in its tone. I haven't read the article in detail, but if you feel the wording is too loose or too biased in areas, feel free to edit it; Wikipedia is a collective encyclopedia, no one owns anything. And if anyone objects, hash it out on the talk page. Also the lead could be more comprehensive of the whole article. That's what you would need for a GA nomination to probably pass. Regards, Vaselineeeeeeee★★★16:04, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks. I've taken this to heart, weeded out any remaining traces of loose language, and added more than another dozen or so references - such that every sentence that could possibly be challenged is now sourced. I also added a little to the lead, but would need to think what to sensibly include there. Cheers, HK Henry Kaspar (talk) 22:23, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Jeff Hendrick - Currently unassessed for some reason. I've done quite a bit of work on this article over the past 5 or 6 months, tidying up the prose, adding citations etc. The big thing it's missing is a picture but that can wait. I think it deserves a B-class Low-Importance rating as I'm quite happy with the current state of the article but happy to go with whatever is decided. Many thanks. Mórtas is Dóchas (talk) 15:22, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Jagiellonia Białystok I know this article has been reviewed before but I have made extensive additions to the article and added many sources. Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks! Matt918 (talk) 2:09, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
Jordan Cook - This article has been expanded considerably over the past eight months and should be reassessed as it is definitely no longer Start-Class. Thank you. LTFC 95 (talk) 10:33, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Done@Robby.is.on: Assessed as C-class. The lead could do with expanding and some more inline citations are required, particularly in the Rostov sections, to move up to B-class. Kosack (talk) 22:43, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
1887 FA Cup Final - I added a little bit of information. I'm not sure if it will be any better than 'start' class, but I'd like to know how I could improve it. Birdsgeek 1:20, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
CSV Apeldoorn After expanding the page I would like a re-assessment. I deleted the stub category. Apologies if that was wrong. Also pointers as to how to further improve are more than welcome. --Dutchy45 (talk) 06:42, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Enugu Rangers - I've significantly updated the history and references for this club and am interested to see where it currently stands and what further improvement is needed (comments welcome on its/my talk page too). SportingFlyertalk05:26, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Dundalk F.C., the page has been completely overhauled and brought up to date with citations from Irish Newspaper Archives added to all historical information. Hoping to ultimately achieve FA if possible - Cheers! Daniel Sexton, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
Oriel Park, the page has been overhauled and brought up to date with citations from Irish Newspaper Archives added to all historical information. Hoping to promote from start - Cheers! Daniel Sexton, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
2019 FFA Cup preliminary rounds, competition nearly completed, article tables not much more to add within a month. Beyond Stub Class?
2018 FFA Cup preliminary rounds, competition completed, hasnt been assessed since the default rating after article creation.
New York Generals, found this page as a stub with no sources. Recently performed a large edit on it, added several references and in-line citations. Think it may qualify for more than stub-class at this point. Thanks! JJonahJackalope (talk) 06:33, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
PAOK FC, performed a large edit on this page, added a lot of references, tables and tags. I'd be interested in a re-assessment and how to further improve it. Thanks! Abudabanas (talk) 18:12, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Sportbrüder Leipzig, changed from a stub into a full-blown article. Lots of citations added and over 7,000 characters added. I'm struggling to find more info. on the team at all, so just curious whether you think it appropriate to rate this as a B-class article or not. Thanks in advance! Allenthalben (talk) 02:43, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I think this would most probably be a C-class article.Because as you said there is not much info to be found on this article which I don't think would be substantial enough however I would be interested to here others take on this. Until then I have changed its rating to a C-class REDMAN 2019 (talk) 14:34, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the review. I've managed to find a bit more information by crawling through old newspapers, but I believe I've found all that I can now. I have taken a look at some B-class articles and they do seem to be substantially long, so I think I would agree with C for this. Allenthalben (talk) 04:15, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
2020 Beijing Sinobo Guoan F.C. season - Have been continuously editing the article as the season progresses and the article is now filled with more details than when it was originally assessed. Would love to get a quick assessment and see how it matches up to the standards. Thank you!
Senegalese Football Federation - This article has almost entirely been rewritten and sourced over the last 6 months, with its scope, details, media and references dramatically expanded, compared to the time of its previous rating. I would love to have the article graded to see how it fairs. Thanks! Fzzey08 (talk) 05:29, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
FC Santa Claus, I've updated this article quite a bit, from an article with 2 references to 30+, since every year around this time it naturally attracts significant attention, including from news sites. Not a stub class anymore. RedPatchBoy (talk) 18:53, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
PAS Giannina F.C. This article has been extensively edited in the previous weeks, and important content has been added. PAS Giannina is a top club playing on the Greek Super League 1. This club is regarded as one of the best in Greece and has very rich, "different" and interesting history, since its foundation, in 1966. PAS Giannina has participated on European games against notable teams, and has a very wide and very strong fanbase across Europe, Oceania, South America and Africa. It also has one of the best fanbases in Greece and a very atmospheric home stadium. With many world class and well known footballers having played for PAS Giannina, including Euro 2004 champion Giourkas Seitaridis, greek international Konstantinos Mavropanos, Zenit's legend Yuri Lodygin and many more. Last but not least, Ajax Amsterdam veterans recently visited Ioannina city, in order to participate on an exhibition match against the PAS Giannina veterans, a match also broadcasted by Ajax TV. After these edits, the clubs page has been renewed with tons of information, photos, categories, charts and graphics, similar to those of World class and famous clubs with great attention to detail. For these reasons, considering also the club's impact on the domestic league, on Europe, and the whole world, I believe that the importance of the page, should change from "Mid", to "High", according to the importance scale, and from class "Start", to at least class "GA", if not to class "A", according to the Quality scale, since we are talking about a complete article about a top club.
Manchester City F.C. 3–2 Queens Park Rangers F.C. - this article was only reviewed on 5th May, but a week or so later I added a significant chunk of text (including 36 unique web citations) to close off the main gap in what needed to be added to the article. I will also go one further and add that the gap I had left was in the aftermath impact for City, which is pretty much the main purpose of the article so I'd like to think that my addition carries some weight, at least in regards to getting this article reclassified. Honestly I've never paid much attention to article assessments before so I don't have a clear image of what it should be, but having perused the classifications I'd like to think it's at least worthy of a B-class now, if not perhaps just pushing an GA rating? Of course, if anyone can suggest extra content to add I'd be more than happy to do it, but right now - aside from wording/style/formatting changes - I literally cannot think of what I can add to this article to make it any better. Falastur2Talk19:41, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@REDMAN 2019: I've cleaned up those Better Citation Needed warnings. What's the next step? Also, sorry to trouble you but any chance of a review of my other nomination, below? Much appreciated! Falastur2Talk16:44, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Falastur2, if you want to bring the article to GA status then the next step would be to nominate it at WP:GAN, instructions can be found at WP:GAI. At first glance the article looks like it would pass but do have some concerns about a couple of the sources, specifically ones sourced by sbnation.com and imdb.com as they are considered to be generally unreliable. That would very likely be raised in a GA review but apart from that I would say go for it and good luck! REDMAN 2019 (talk) 12:39, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Done, This was a hard one, I having compared it against other similar B-class articles, I think this would just pass and have upped it as such. REDMAN 2019 (talk) 12:54, 10 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Barkley Miguel Panzo - Hi! I just found that Barkley Miguel Panzo has been using his Wikipedia page as a CV fo years and still uses it to fool various European football clubs[1]. Could you guys help me to either delete it or writing some paragraphs about his Wikipedia controversy that made him known.
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Request for review: Draft:ROVA Roșiori de Vede
Hello, dear reviewers! I would kindly like to request a review of my draft: Draft:ROVA Roșiori de Vede, which has been pending since April 7, 2025.
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Done Assessed as mid in line with "Players or managers that have participated at international level or in a top-level league.". --Christiangamer7 (talk) 07:49, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
Not done No change, was already assessed as start. --Christiangamer7 (talk) 07:49, 29 March 2024 (UTC)