Editing Kassel (section)

==Sports==
[[KSV Hessen Kassel|Hessen Kassel]] is the [[Association football|football]] club in the city, who plays in the [[Hessenliga]] after being relegated from the [[Regionalliga Südwest]] in the 2017/2018 season. The city's own football stadium, the [[Auestadion]] was built in 1953 and is able to hold 18,737 people. It is located in the south of Kassel at the quarter Südstadt, next to the Karlsaue.

Kassel has a long ice hockey tradition,<ref name="DW1">{{cite web|url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14912617,00.html|title=German hockey team skates from financial brink back to rink|work=[[Deutsche Welle]]|date=20 March 2011|access-date=21 March 2011}}</ref> but it was not until 1977 that the Kassel ice rink (Eissporthalle) opened on a private initiative. The [[Kassel Huskies]] were founding members of the [[Deutsche Eishockey Liga|DEL]] in 1994, belonging to the league from 1994 to 2006 and again from 2008 to 2010. In [[1996–97 DEL season|1997]], they were runners-up in the championship playoffs, losing to [[Adler Mannheim]], and reached the semi-finals on three more occasions. The Huskies ran into financial difficulties and dissolved in 2010.<ref name="DW1"/> The "Young Huskies", which is a junior and youth hockey club, decided to enter a men's team in the Hessenliga.<ref name="DW1"/> This is the fifth division and the lowest men's competition in the state of [[Hesse]].<ref name="DW1"/> The new club was expecting no more than 3,000 supporters for the first home game in the Hessenliga.<ref name="DW1"/> However, they had over 5,000 supporters come to watch.<ref name="DW1"/>