User:Soccer-holic/Club notability criteria
{{Draft proposal}} Football club notability by country This page aims to give a short overview on currently applied notability criteria for association football clubs by country. Feel free to add countries if these are not yet present on the list below.
- England: Played at Level 10 or higher in the English football pyramid, or in the FA Cup, FA Vase or FA Amateur Cup.[1]
- France: Played at least at CFA 2 level – the current fifth tier in French football,[2] or reached the Round of 64 in the Coupe de France.[3]
- Germany: Any club which has played at least at an Oberliga level during a season (currently fifth-tier; the league has been at a higher level in the past) or in the DFB-Pokal, or any pre-World War II club which either spent at least one season in either a Gauliga division between 1933 and 1945 or participated in the final stages of the German football championship.
- Greece: Any club that has played in Football League 2 or higher, or appeared in the Greek Cup.
- Italy: Any club that plays in Serie D or higher,[4] or has appeared in the Coppa Italia.
- Portugal: Played in the Portuguese Third Division or higher, or appeared in the Taça de Portugal.
- Spain: Played in the Tercera División or higher, or appeared in the Copa del Rey.
Notes
[edit]- ^ See this AfD, which references 15 AfDs using this criteria.
- ^ http://www.fff.fr/competitions/php/championnat/championnat_classement.php?sa_no=2011&cp_no=264757&ph_no=1&gp_no=1
- ^ http://www.fff.fr/competitions/php/histo_cfra/histo_cfra.php?sa_no=2011&pj_no=1
- ^ http://www.lnd.it/index.php?page=home&ctl_level_id=21