South Africa national soccer team is drawing 79x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

The South Africa national soccer team represents South Africa in men's international soccer and is run by the South African Football Association, the governing body for soccer in South Africa. Nicknamed Bafana Bafana, the team plays at various stadiums around the country. The team, a member of both FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF), is one of the most well-supported national sides in Africa, and are recognised by their traditional green and gold kits.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 8 edits to this article on 2026-06-11, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• 2026
• FIFA World Cup
• Players

What changed that day

The article lost 925 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 104 characters to 2026. See everything that changed on 2026-06-11 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.