SOCCER PLAYER

Stiliyan Petrov

1979 - Today

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Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov (Bulgarian: Стилиян Альошев Петров, born 5 July 1979) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Petrov joined Celtic from CSKA Sofia in 1999, and won ten trophies in his time at Celtic Park, including four Scottish Premier League titles. In 2006, he moved to Aston Villa in the Premier League, along with his former manager Martin O'Neill. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stiliyan Petrov has received more than 989,123 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Stiliyan Petrov is the 4,834th most popular soccer player (up from 5,377th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Bulgaria (up from 262nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Bulgarian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 990k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Stiliyan Petrovs by language

Over the past year Stiliyan Petrov has had the most page views in the with 96,091 views, followed by Bulgarian (36,683), and Russian (6,774). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (159.89%), Galician (120.40%), and Simple English (120.07%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Stiliyan Petrov ranks 4,834 out of 21,273. Before him are Takuma Asano, Ray Kennedy, Oscar Calics, Michael Krohn-Dehli, André Gomes, and Károly Weichelt. After him are Víctor Aristizábal, Raúl Sánchez, Joël Matip, Bernard Casoni, Miguel Mejía Barón, and Marc Baecke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Stiliyan Petrov ranks 173. Before him are B. J. Novak, Kostas Katsouranis, Andriy Biletsky, Tim Howard, MyAnna Buring, and Daniel Cormier. After him are Jaime King, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Chris Klein, Sean Parker, Gabri García, and Jagmeet Singh.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Stiliyan Petrov ranks 244 out of 415. Before him are Zlatko Yankov (1966), Martin Petrov (1979), Khristo Markov (1965), Norair Nurikyan (1948), Boris Nikolov (1929), and Zhivko Gospodinov (1957). After him are Reneta Indzhova (1953), Ruja Ignatova (1980), Mikhail Zhelev (1943), Basri Dirimlili (1929), Ekaterina Karavelova (1860), and Mariya Gabriel (1979).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Bulgaria

Among soccer players born in Bulgaria, Stiliyan Petrov ranks 32. Before him are Georgi Naydenov (1931), Kiril Rakarov (1932), Simeon Simeonov (1946), Zlatko Yankov (1966), Martin Petrov (1979), and Zhivko Gospodinov (1957). After him are Basri Dirimlili (1929), Todor Diev (1934), Asparuh Nikodimov (1945), Kiril Metkov (1965), Aleksandar Kostov (1938), and Nikola Kovachev (1934).

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