Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Templates

This page is part of the WikiProject on Football and is intended to be used as a guide on template standardization.

Navigational boxes (navboxes)
This is a system for allowing all navigational boxes related to football organisations to be placed on any page without having to have them as separate boxes, thus making it simple to, for example (unrealistic as it may be), group into one navbox the listing of the teams in the FA Premier League with the listing of the Asian football federations and the Man Utd infobox, together with standard links for Swedish football. Standard colours for header rows, standard methods for listing teams, and other standardizations have been introduced to make these boxes look good when combining several different pieces.

Under Wikipedia guidelines for external links and navigation templates, navboxes should not include any external links. A link to a team's official site should be given within an article's infobox or in its External links section, but not in the navbox.

They should not be used for squad lists or manager histories or for other similar uses. These should use the templates outlined at below.

Clubs
For squad lists in club articles, use the following templates:


 * football squad start
 * football squad player
 * football squad mid
 * football squad end

For instructions on how to use these templates, see Template talk:Football squad player

Players
For most major clubs and national teams, there are navboxes for the current squad that can be inserted at the foot of a player's biography. See Category:Association football squad templates for a full list.

To create a new squad template (having first checked there isn't one already) use the following templates:


 * Football squad in conjunction with:
 * Football squad2 player
 * Football squad manager

For instructions on how to use these templates, see Template:Football squad/doc and Template talk:Football squad.

Managers
For most major clubs and national teams, there are navboxes for the current squad that can be inserted at the foot of a player's biography. See Category:Football manager history templates for a full list.


 * Football manager history should be used in conjunction with:
 * Football manager list entry
 * Football manager last

Timesavers
The following templates are used with subst to save writing the entire link.

All such templates should be substituted. For example, use, which will produce.
 * fc - Creates a link in the format of
 * efs - Creates a link in the format of
 * nft - Creates a link in the format of
 * nfa - Creates a link to national football associations, in custom formats, for example Netherlands or Iran
 * footin - Creates a link in the format of Football in
 * nft rank – Used for FIFA Rankings and Elo Ratings in national football team articles.

Others

 * International football competition statistics – For use with the statistics article of an international tournament

Stub notices
Listed below are the specific stub notices that can be used for stub articles.

There are also region-specific versions of many of the above templates. Refer to WP:STUBSORT for details.

Talk page templates
These should be only used on talk pages.

Barnstars
Used to recognise users as being particularly useful to the WikiProject. These should be places on user talk pages.