Cape Verde national football team saw 231x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

The Cape Verde national football team, recognised as Cabo Verde by FIFA, represents Cape Verde in men's international football, and is controlled by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. Nicknamed Blue Sharks, the national team played its first match on 19 April 1978 against Guinea, a match they lost 0–1. Following the federation's affiliation with the Confederation of African Football and FIFA in 1982, the national team entered Africa Cup of Nations qualification for the first time in 1992 and made its first FIFA World Cup qualification appearance in 2003. Cape Verde plays the majority of its home matches at the Estádio Nacional de Cabo Verde. They qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 2013. Since then, they also appeared in the 2015, 2021 and 2023 tournaments, reaching the quarter-finals in 2013 and 2023.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 30 edits to this article on 2026-06-15, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026
• Record against other nations
• FIFA World Cup
• History
• Competitive record
• Current squad

What changed that day

The article grew by 2,549 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,811 characters to 2026. See everything that changed on 2026-06-15 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.