Offside rule

Quality:

Offside - law in association football. Article “Offside rule” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Offside rule”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9081^st place) and edited by 1830 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2061 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #155 in June 2014
• Global: #711 in June 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #38 in June 2012
• Global: #360 in June 2018

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Offside (association football)		96.0644
2	Chinese (zh) 越位 (足球)		31.1339
3	Polish (pl) Spalony (piłka nożna)		30.6222
4	Greek (el) Παίκτης εκτός παιχνιδιού (Οφσάιντ)		29.9053
5	Estonian (et) Suluseis (jalgpall)		29.4143
6	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		26.8783
7	Italian (it) Fuorigioco (calcio)		25.5789
8	French (fr) Loi 11 du football		25.0386
9	Portuguese (pt) Impedimento (futebol)		24.8542
10	Arabic (ar) تسلل (كرة القدم)		24.0107

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Offside (association football)		5 550 532
2	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		2 457 768
3	Chinese (zh) 越位 (足球)		2 065 624
4	Japanese (ja) オフサイド (サッカー)		1 722 027
5	Polish (pl) Spalony (piłka nożna)		1 676 946
6	French (fr) Loi 11 du football		1 321 373
7	Vietnamese (vi) Luật việt vị (bóng đá)		1 165 249
8	Turkish (tr) Ofsayt		1 137 155
9	Arabic (ar) تسلل (كرة القدم)		974 058
10	Indonesian (id) Offside		860 412

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Offside (association football)		13 343
2	Vietnamese (vi) Luật việt vị (bóng đá)		4 474
3	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		4 349
4	French (fr) Loi 11 du football		3 748
5	Russian (ru) Положение вне игры (футбол)		2 677
6	Korean (ko) 오프사이드		2 666
7	Persian (fa) آفساید		2 103
8	Japanese (ja) オフサイド (サッカー)		1 728
9	Portuguese (pt) Impedimento (futebol)		1 677
10	Italian (it) Fuorigioco (calcio)		1 489

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Offside (association football)		459
2	Dutch (nl) Buitenspel (voetbal)		128
3	French (fr) Loi 11 du football		112
4	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		101
5	Polish (pl) Spalony (piłka nożna)		97
6	Hebrew (he) נבדל		77
7	Greek (el) Παίκτης εκτός παιχνιδιού (Οφσάιντ)		75
8	Russian (ru) Положение вне игры (футбол)		63
9	Portuguese (pt) Impedimento (futebol)		59
10	Italian (it) Fuorigioco (calcio)		57

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Slovak (sk) Ofsajd		4
2	Spanish (es) Fuera de juego		2
3	Italian (it) Fuorigioco (calcio)		2
4	Polish (pl) Spalony (piłka nożna)		1
5	Thai (th) การล้ำหน้า (ฟุตบอล)		1
6	Arabic (ar) تسلل (كرة القدم)		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) Ofsayd (futbol)		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Засада (футбол)		0
9	Catalan (ca) Fora de joc		0
10	Danish (da) Offside		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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