Editing Sale, Victoria (section)

===Sports===
[[Australian rules football]], [[soccer]], [[basketball]] and [[cricket]] are the most popular sports in Sale. The Gippsland Regional Sports Complex hosts many other sports including basketball, [[association football|Association rules]] football, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, indoor soccer, aerobics, group fitness and gym.

The city has two [[Australian rules football]] teams, [[Sale Football Club|Sale]], competing in the [[Gippsland Football League]] and Sale City, who compete in the [[North Gippsland Football League]].

Sale was one of pioneering centres of [[soccer]] in Gippsland, with a rich history dating back to 1925, where the club played in the North Gippsland Soccer Association (alongside [[Newborough-Yallourn United SC|Yallourn SC]] and clubs from [[Maffra, Victoria|Maffra]], [[Glenmaggie, Victoria|Glenmaggie]] and Nambrok).,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lobley |first=Murray |date=2013-05-31 |title=History of the Yallourn SC, Episode 1 |url=http://www.virtualyallourn.com/stories/history-yallourn-soccer-club-ysc-episode-1by-murray-lobley/ |access-date=2023-09-12 |website=Virtually Yallourn |language=en-US}}</ref> with a league formed in 1926.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1926-05-26 |title=Soccer In The Country |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/274802337?searchTerm=North%20Gippsland%20Soccer%20Association |access-date=2024-09-12 |website= The Sun News-Pictorial |language=en-US}}</ref> The [[RAAF Base East Sale]] also later competed in the LVSL.

[[Sale United FC|Sale United]] currently plays in the [[Latrobe Valley Soccer League]] and was crowned as league champions in 1980, as well as Battle of Britain Cup champions in 1955. The club was also the home of future [[National Soccer League]] star [[Marcus Stergiopoulos]].

It is home to the Sale Sonics, a representative basketball team that competes in the Country Basketball League and is renowned for developing many elite [[Australian rules football]] and [[National Basketball League (Australia)|National Basketball League]] players including Billy Hughes, [[Jason Gram]], [[Scott Pendlebury]], [[Dylan McLaren]] and [[Rhys Carter]] .

The city is the home to two [[field hockey]] clubs in the [[East Gippsland Hockey Association]]. The Sale Hockey Club fields teams in juniors mixed under 13s, under 15s, and under 18s along with two women's teams, the Sale Cygnets and the Sale Swans, along with one open team. The under 18s and open teams were champions in the 2008 season.  The Wurruk Greyhounds are the Sale district's second hockey team, located in the satellite town [[Wurruk]].

Sale has a [[Thoroughbred racing in Australia|horse racing club]], the Sale Turf Club, which schedules around 21 race meetings a year including the Sale Cup meeting in October.<ref name="RaceClub">{{Citation | last = Country Racing Victoria | title = Sale Turf Club | url = http://www.countryracing.com.au/clubs/sale/ | access-date = 2010-09-02 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100920174945/http://countryracing.com.au/clubs/sale/ | archive-date = 2010-09-20 }}</ref>

The Sale Greyhound Racing Club holds regular [[Greyhound racing in Australia|greyhound racing]] meetings at the Sale Showgrounds. The Showgrounds hosted the first meeting on 6 February 1936 with newer tracks built in 1963 and 1982.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://historyofgreyhoundracing.com/history-of-the-sale-grc/|title=History of the Sale GRC|publisher=History of Greyhound Racing|access-date=15 March 2021}}</ref><ref name="dogs">{{Citation|last=Greyhound Racing Victoria |title=Sale |url=http://sale.grv.org.au/index.html |access-date=2009-04-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331093521/http://sale.grv.org.au/index.html |archive-date=March 31, 2009 }}</ref>

Golfers play at the course of the Sale Golf Club on Longford–Rosedale Road in neighbouring [[Longford, Victoria|Longford]].<ref name = "golf">{{Citation  | publisher= Golf Select | title = Sale | url = http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=319 | access-date = 2009-05-11 }}</ref>

Sale is also home to a baseball club whose baseball diamonds are located at Stephenson Park.
There are both junior and senior teams competing in the Latrobe Valley Baseball Association.