Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2021 International Friendlies
Everyone seems to think this is either useless and/or indiscriminate. I don't think it's either. In fact, if this 2021 version is the first of its kind on Wikipedia, I'm surprised. Assuming (and I may be wrong to do so, but in that case the article could probably be developed in that direction) this means only the ''official FIFA-sanctioned international friendlies'', that's certainly a very clearly defined and finite list of matches, selected to suit the teams' objectives and carefully scheduled to fit within the specified friendly windows and around each team's other commitments; these matches also count towards official player statistics etc. And if you search for 'international friendlies', you get hits from the likes of BBC Sport, ESPN, ''The Guardian'', etc., so clearly the term is used widely to refer to this set of matches. As for the argument that this information can be found elsewhere — sure, but that's true of most list-type articles; the whole point of lists is that they pull together information that is ''easier'' accessed as a list: if you know that, say, Luxembourg played a friendly against Israel in 2002, you can find that eg. in the article Luxembourg_national_football_team_results_(2000–2019), but what if you wanted to know ''who'' played friendlies against Israel that year, how easy would it be to find that information without a list like this? Finally, I don't think this is , as in "important only to a small population of enthusiastic fans": these are national teams we're talking about, not a bunch of mates playing Sunday morning footy in the park, with the matches televised and widely reported in the press. In short, I think this list is useful, the subject is notable, and with some improvements (mostly ensuring that only the official friendlies are included, and that the information is properly sourced) the article should stay. And similar articles should be created for earlier years
— User:DoubleGrazing, 07:25, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CRUFT (Wikipedia:Fancruft)