SOCCER PLAYER

Steph Houghton

1988 - Today

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Stephanie Jayne Darby (née Houghton, , born 23 April 1988), commonly known as Steph Houghton, is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains Women's Super League club Manchester City. Known for her leadership and commitment, Houghton is widely regarded as one of the best centre-backs in the world.At club level, Houghton started at Sunderland in her native North East England, before moving on to Leeds Carnegie in 2007, where she won the FA Women's Premier League Cup. In 2010, she joined Arsenal Ladies, where she won the FA WSL on two occasions and is a two-time winner of the FA Women's Cup and three-time winner of the FA WSL Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steph Houghton has received more than 1,399,799 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Steph Houghton is the 19,395th most popular soccer player (down from 17,430th in 2019), the 8,365th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 7,527th in 2019) and the 1,179th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 19.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Steph Houghtons by language

Over the past year Steph Houghton has had the most page views in the with 198,791 views, followed by German (2,328), and Chinese (1,676). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (158.97%), Basque (75.45%), and Egyptian Arabic (45.86%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Steph Houghton ranks 19,395 out of 21,273. Before her are Teden Mengi, Shingo Shibata, Yusuke Takeda, Yuya Onoe, Masaki Miyasaka, and Takashi Sawada. After her are Ryunosuke Okamoto, Seiko Yamanaka, Masanori Abe, Yohei Iwasaki, Ryo Shinzato, and Rafael dos Santos Franciscatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Steph Houghton ranks 1,504. Before her are Mira Rai, Tatsuro Okuda, Stephen Henderson, Jefferson, Ryusei Morikawa, and Maja Salvador. After her are Kota Morimura, Taylor Ritzel, Akira Takase, Boka, Shunsuke Iwanuma, and Tatsuya Murao.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Steph Houghton ranks 8,365 out of 8,785. Before her are Liam Ridgewell (1984), John Bostock (1992), Danny Alexander (1972), Nathan Ellington (1981), Ruel (2002), and Teden Mengi (2002). After her are Paddy Barnes (1987), Scott McKenna (1996), Jessica Garlick (1981), Jem Karacan (1989), Callum McManaman (1991), and Chelsie Giles (1997).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Steph Houghton ranks 1,179. Before her are Kerrea Gilbert (1987), Efe Sodje (1972), Liam Ridgewell (1984), John Bostock (1992), Nathan Ellington (1981), and Teden Mengi (2002). After her are Scott McKenna (1996), Jem Karacan (1989), Callum McManaman (1991), Paul Hartley (1976), Ben Johnson (2000), and Joe Morrell (1997).

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