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Canadian football

Canadian sport in which opposing teams of twelve players attempt to score by advancing a ball by running, passing and kicking
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Canadian football

Summary

Canadian football ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,581 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Canadian football is in the country of Canada[2].
  • Canadian football is a type of gridiron football[3].
  • Canadian football's Commons category is recorded as Canadian football[4].
  • Canadian football's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Canadian football[5].
  • Canadian football's Commons gallery is recorded as Canadian football[6].
  • Canadian football's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as sport=canadian_football[7].
  • Canadian football's maximum number of players is recorded as {'amount': '+24'}[8].
  • Canadian football's different from is recorded as soccer in Canada[9].
  • Canadian football's practiced by is recorded as Canadian football player[10].

Body

Definition and Type

Canadian football is a type of gridiron football[3].

Why It Matters

Canadian football ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,581 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · MuzikMachine · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → Canadian football player
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P3095]]: [[Q140291511]]"
  2. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → Canadian football player
    Country → Canada
    Subclass of → gridiron football
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007283205205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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