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The player section of this notability guidance has been superseded by WP:Notability (sports), and is included below for information only as a record of the previous guidance that the Footy project came up with.

Players are deemed notable if they meet any of the criteria below:

1. Have played for a fully
   reliable source
   on a club by club basis for teams playing in leagues that are not recognised as being fully professional.
2. Have played in a competitive fixture between two fully professional clubs in a domestic, Continental or Intercontinental club competition.
3. Have played FIFA recognised senior international football or football at the Olympic games.
4. Pre-professional (amateur era) footballers to have played at the national level of league football are considered notable (no other level of amateur football confers notability).

Should a person fail to meet these additional criteria, they may still be notable under Wikipedia:Notability.

Per

Teams that have played in the national cup (or the national tier(s) of the league structure in countries where no cup exists or in the countries whose national cup does not include all teams who play in the national league(s)) generally meet

WP:GNG

criteria. Teams that are not eligible for national cups must be shown to meet broader WP:N criteria.

Country-specific criteria:

• England: Clubs that play or have played at step 6 of the
  WP:GNG
  criteria.

• Leagues whose teams are eligible for national cups are generally notable.
• Leagues that are a country's highest level are generally notable.
• Other leagues are assumed non-notable unless they can be shown to meet broader
  WP:N
  criteria.