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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.

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.

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

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.

Guidelines and help pages for writing articles and other contributions.

Articles

Manual of style for a few common types of article:

• Club manual of style
• National team manual of style
• National association manual of style
• Competition manual of style
• League season manual of style
• Club season manual of style
• Country season manual of style
• Match manual of style
• Player manual of style
• Stadium manual of style

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:

• Category structure

Templates

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

• Template list

Notability

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

• WP:GNG Wikipedia's general notability guideline
• Notability guideline for players sport-specific guideline
  • Leagues that are fully professional to confer player and coach notability
• Notability guidelines for clubs (WikiProject guideline)
• Notability guidelines for leagues (WikiProject guideline)

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.

• Link collection
• Booklist

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:

The proportion of all articles with known importance is:

Article statistics

Football articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	22	53	114			190
FL		4	24	258			286
GA		58	299	588			945
B	17	226	620	757			1,620
C	18	289	2,875	6,296			9,478
Start	5	363	13,972	71,824		2,879	89,043
Stub		32	33,263	162,222		17,099	212,616
List	3	17	290	8,300		76	8,686
Category					85,455		85,455
Disambig					165		165
File					16,653		16,653
Portal					458		458
Project					283		283
Redirect				424	6,445		6,869
Template					23,732		23,732
NA				37	6		43
Other				20	435		455
Assessed	44	1,011	51,396	250,840	133,632	20,054	456,977
Unassessed				2	1	204	207
Total	44	1,011	51,396	250,842	133,633	20,258	457,184

New articles

For a list of recently created football articles, see:

• New articles

Requested articles

• Follow this link to go to the specific section of Wikipedia:Requested articles that lists the requested articles for football.

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.