Editing Leuven (section)

== Sport ==
[[File:King Power at Den Dreef Stadion.jpg|thumb|Den Dreef Stadium]]
Leuven was voted European City of Sport for 2021, highlighted by hosting the [[2021 UCI Road World Championships|UCI Road World Championships]], which will follow several routes of the [[Grote Prijs Jef Scherens]], a yearly cycling race in and around Leuven. The city also hosts the start of the [[Brabantse Pijl]], a [[Classic cycle races|semi-classic]] race and the [[Cyclocross Leuven]] is a [[cyclo-cross]] race held each year in January.

The main [[football club (association football)|football club]] of the municipality is [[Oud-Heverlee Leuven]], successor of prior clubs [[Daring Club Leuven]] and [[K. Stade Leuven|Stade Leuven]]. Both the men's team and [[Oud-Heverlee Leuven (women)|OH Leuven women]] play at the highest level. The city's prime basketball team is the [[Leuven Bears]], they play their home games at the SportOase. Other known top-tier teams include [[IHC Leuven]] (ice hockey), [[KHC Leuven]] (field hockey), Leuven aquatics(waterpolo) and VC Haasrode-Leuven (volleyball). Daring Club Leuven Atletiek is one of the oldest athletics clubs in Belgium, where [[Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase|1964 Olympic gold medallist]] [[Gaston Roelants]] was a member.

There is also a GAA club in Leuven, the club is named, 'the Earls of Leuven', after the [[Flight of the Earls]]. The Earls of Leuven has become one of the most well-known GAA clubs in Europe, and is an affiliated University sports club. The city of Leuven has become the home of Collegiate Gaelic Games activity in Europe due to its organisation of the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Collegiate Games. This GAA club is part of a wider European league, [[Gaelic Games Europe]], which is in itself part of the global organisation, [[The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA)|The Gaelic Athletic Association]]