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This page lists the milestones of WikiProject Football. It is hoped that the following will be recorded here for posterity –

• Project, sub-project, task force and child project creation dates
• Featured article milestones – 1st, 10th, 20th etc
• Featured list milestones – 1st, 10th, 20th etc
• Featured content milestones – x appeared on main page, total of featured content = 10, 20,
• Good article milestones
• Tagged article milestones – 500 articles, 1000, 5000, 10000, 15000 etc
• User milestones – 1st, 50th, 100th, 150th etc

• 9 June 2005 – Project created by User:Johan Elisson (original page), Johan had created Portal:Association football
  six days earlier.
• 7 July 2005 – IFK Göteborg
  becomes the project's first featured article.
• Main page
  .
• Wikipedia:WikiProject A-League which pre-dated WP:FOOTBALL, being created by User:Albinomonkey on December 20 2004 (original page
  ).
• 4 February 2006 – User:Kaiser23
  becomes the project's 50th member.
• Swedish football champions
  becomes the project's first featured list.
• Player project taskforce (original page
  ).
• Agony of Doha
  becomes the 30th football related Did you know? to appear on Wikipedia's main page.
• 21 May 2006 – User:Cs-wolves
  becomes the project's 100th member.
• 9 August 2006 – Portal:A-League was created by User:Daniel (original page
  ).
• 29 August 2006 – the assessment department
  was added to the project. Over 500 articles were supported at this stage.
• 31 August 2006 – User:Balerion
  becomes the project's 150th member.
• 13 September 2006 – Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
  becomes the project's tenth featured article.
• 31 September 2006
  – the project passes the 1,000 article milestone.
• 12 October 2006 – Premier League
  becomes the project's fifth featured article to appear on the Main page.
• WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia (original page
  ).
• 12 November 2006 – History of Bristol Rovers F.C.
  is the 40th football related DYK on the main page.
• 31 November 2006
  – the project passes the 5,000 article milestone.
• 14 December 2006 – User:Charruss2491
  becomes the project's 200th member.
• 28 January 2007 – List of Manchester United F.C. players
  becomes the project's tenth featured list.
• 13 March 2007 – User:Zanoni
  becomes the project's 250th member.
• 6 April 2007 – 7 football related articles were included in the Wikipedia:Version 0.5
  DVD release.
• 17 April 2007 – Francis Lee
  is the 50th football related DYK on the main page.
• 17 May 2007 – 18 football related articles were placed on the 2007 Wikipedia Selection for schools
• 30 May 2007 – User:Sebisthlm
  becomes the project's 300th member.
• 5 June 2007 – Itzik Zohar
  is the 60th football related DYK on the main page.
• 13 June 2007 – History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966)
  becomes the project's twentieth featured article.
• Main page
  .
• 31 June 2007 – the project passes the 10,000 article milestone.
• 23 July 2007 – Eddy Brown
  is the 70th football related DYK on the main page.
• 15 September 2007 – User:Heitz669
  becomes the project's 350th member.
• Ipswich Town F.C. seasons
  .
• 29 September 2007 – Harry Newbould
  is the 80th football related DYK on the main page.
• 31 September 2007
  – the project passes the 15,000 article milestone.
• 16 October 2007 – List of Gillingham F.C. players
  (a featured list) becomes the project's 50th article to achieve featured status. There were 27 featured articles and 23 featured lists on this date.
• Gillingham F.C. seasons becomes the project's 30th featured list, Denis Law
  is the first article to be de-featured.
• 14 December 2007 – Gary Willard
  is the 90th football related DYK on the main page.
• Featured picture
  .
• 13 January 2008
  – the project passes the 20,000 article milestone. There were 29 featured articles and 38 featured lists on this date.
• 24 January 2008 – Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C.
  becomes the project's 30th featured article.
• Leeds United A.F.C. seasons
  becomes the project's 40th featured list.
• 31 January 2008 – FC Mretebi Tbilisi
  is the 100th football related DYK on the main page.
• 12 February 2008 – User:GarethHolteDavies
  becomes the project's 400th member.
• 21 February 2008 – Game 39
  is the 110th football related DYK on the main page.
• featured topic
  .
• 10 March 2008 – York City F.C.
  becomes the project's third featured topic.
• football
  }} according to the latest WP1.0 statistics.
• 18 March 2008
  – the project passes the 25,000 article milestone.
• featured portal
  .
• 14 September 2008 – 911 articles were selected for inclusion on Wikipedia:Version 0.7 out of a possible 53,311 for the main project with more from subprojects and taskforces (see Wikipedia:0.7/0.7index/Football).
• 11 December 2008
  – Taskforce on Association Football variants created