Editing Wakefield (section)

==Sport==
===Rugby===
[[File:Wakefield Trinity Wildcats hospitality suites (geograph 5814488).jpg|thumb|Belle Vue Stadium]]
[[Wakefield Trinity]] is a [[rugby league|Rugby League]] club currently playing in the Super League following promotion from the Championship in 2024. The club, founded in 1873, was one of the initial founders of the [[Rugby Football League|Northern Union]] after the split from the [[Rugby Football Union]] in 1895. The club plays at [[Belle Vue (Wakefield)|Belle Vue stadium]].<ref name="WTrinity">{{cite web |title=Wildcats |url=http://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/wildcats-history-c351.html |publisher=wakefieldwildcats.co.uk |access-date=21 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031130154/http://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/wildcats-history-c351.html |archive-date=31 October 2009}}</ref> Several local teams play in different leagues of the [[British Amateur Rugby League Association]], BARLA.
They include Wakefield City, Westgate Wolves, Crigglestone All Blacks, Kettlethorpe and Eastmoor Dragons.<ref name="BARLA">{{cite web |title=BARLA |url=http://www.barla.org.uk/Clubs/ |publisher=barla.org.uk |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313160950/http://www.barla.org.uk/Clubs/ |archive-date=13 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Rugby Union Football is played at [[Sandal RUFC]]<ref name="sandalrufc">{{cite web |title=Sandal rufc |url=http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/sandalrufc/?primary=theclub&secondary=history#_ |publisher=pitchero.com |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130021301/http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/sandalrufc/?primary=theclub&secondary=history#_ |archive-date=30 January 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> and was played by [[Wakefield RFC]] at [[College Grove (sports ground)|College Grove]] from 1901 to 2004 when the club ceased to play.
===Football===
Wakefield briefly had a football team in the city itself when [[Wakefield F.C.|Emley F.C.]] moved to play at Belle Vue, the ground of Wakefield Trinity, hoping to progress further up the football pyramid. However, fortunes soon declined with supporters abandoning the club and they moved out of Belle Vue, first to College Grove and then briefly to share with [[Ossett Town A.F.C.|Ossett Town]], ultimately, Wakefield FC folded in June 2014<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/afc-emley-blow--wakefield-wound-up-32051/ |title=Wakefield Wound Up |date=23 June 2014 |access-date=9 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110112234/http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/afc-emley-blow--wakefield-wound-up-32051/ |archive-date=10 November 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> with crowds in the low double figures by then. [[Emley A.F.C.|AFC Emley]] was founded to restore the club's original links with the village of Emley.<ref>[http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/afcemley/a/club-history-29996.html The History of AFC Emley] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107201403/http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/afcemley/a/club-history-29996.html |date=7 January 2017 }} A.F.C. Emley</ref> the fans who followed the old club soon went back to following the new (continuation of the old club) in Emley who have gone from strength to strength.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/sport/football/emley-afc-are-reunified-with-their-history-and-achievements-3757493|title=Emley AFC are reunified with their history and achievements}}</ref> 

In 2019 a new club [[Wakefield A.F.C.]] was formed by a consortium including former professional player [[Chris Turner (footballer, born 1958)|Chris Turner]] and played in the [[Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior Football League]], in 2021 the club was bought by VO2 capital. Playing at Barnsley and [[Featherstone Rovers|Featherstone]], the club had not played in the City which bears their name until moving to share the rugby ground with [[Wakefield Trinity]] in 2023,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wakefieldafc.com/2021/07/01/vo2-capital-completes-investment-in-wakefield-afc/|title=VO2 Capital Completes Investment in Wakefield AFC |website=wakefieldafc.co.uk|accessdate=19 November 2023}}</ref> however, this arrangement only lasted 1 season before Wakefield moved back out of the city and back to [[Featherstone Rovers|Featherstone]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ncefl.org.uk/news/nceldivisionone/2024/6269-wakefieldafcreturntomillenniumstadium/ | title=Wakefield AFC return to Millennium Stadium | website=www.ncefl.org.uk | date=11 August 2024}}</ref> leaving the city of Wakefield without a senior football club yet again and therefore remains the largest settlement in the UK without its own football club.
===Other Sports===
Wakefield Hockey Club and Slazenger Hockey Club (based in [[Horbury]]) are [[field hockey]] clubs that compete in the [[Men's England Hockey League]], the [[North Hockey Association|North Hockey League]] and the [[Yorkshire Hockey Association|Yorkshire & North East Hockey League]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wakefieldhockeyclub.co.uk/ |title=Wakefield Hockey Club |access-date=4 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/clubs/wakefield-hc|title=England Hockey – Wakefield Hockey Club |access-date=4 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://slazengerhc.co.uk/|title=Slazenger Hockey Club |access-date=4 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/clubs/slazenger-hc|title=England Hockey – Slazenger Hockey Club |access-date=4 October 2024}}</ref>

Wakefield Sports Club at College Grove also has the Yorkshire Regional Hockey Academy, Wakefield Bowls Club and Wakefield Squash Club on the same site.<ref name="WSC">{{cite web |title=Wakefield Sports Club |url=http://www.wakefieldsportsclub.co.uk/ |publisher=wakefieldsportsclub.co.uk |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090929152828/http://www.wakefieldsportsclub.co.uk/ |archive-date=29 September 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The Wakefield Archers meet at QEGS in Wakefield or at Slazengers Sports Club, Horbury and has archers shooting Olympic re-curve bows, compound bows and longbows.<ref name="Archery">{{cite web |title=The Wakefield Archers |url=http://www.thewakefieldarchers.com/modules/news/ |publisher=thewakefieldarchers.com |access-date=21 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627024124/http://www.thewakefieldarchers.com/modules/news/ |archive-date=27 June 2009}}</ref>
Thornes Park Athletics Stadium is home to Wakefield Harriers A.C. Members [[Martyn Bernard]] and [[Emily Freeman]] competed in the Beijing Olympics.<ref name="WAC">{{cite web |title=Wakefield Harriers AC |url=http://www.wakefield-harriers.co.uk/ |publisher=wakefield-harriers.co.uk |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327214421/http://www.wakefield-harriers.co.uk/ |archive-date=27 March 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>
Local teams Newton Hill and Wakefield Thornes are members of the Leeds-West Riding Cricket League.<ref name="lwrcl">{{cite web |title=lwrcl |url=http://lwrcl.org.uk/ |publisher=lwrcl.org.uk |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130195721/http://lwrcl.org.uk/ |archive-date=30 November 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>

There is a {{convert|100|acre|km2|adj=on}} watersports lake at [[Pugneys Country Park]] catering for non-powered watersports such as canoeing, sailing and windsurfing.<ref name="Pugneys">{{cite web |title=Pugneys |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/ParksAndOpenSpaces/PugneysCountryPark/About.htm |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=22 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526204405/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/ParksAndOpenSpaces/PugneysCountryPark/About.htm |archive-date=26 May 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> Golf clubs include the municipal course at Lupset and the private Wakefield Golf Club at Sandal.<ref name="Golf">{{cite web |title=Golf |url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/LeisureFacilities/GolfCourses/default.htm |publisher=Wakefield Council |access-date=25 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620003305/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CultureAndLeisure/LeisureFacilities/GolfCourses/default.htm |archive-date=20 June 2009}}</ref>

The racing team [[United Autosports]] are based in Wakefield and competes in the [[FIA World Endurance Championship|World Endurance Championship]], [[ELMS]] and [[IMSA SportsCar Championship|IMSA]].<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.unitedautosports.com/about|publisher=United Autosports |access-date=10 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250219142231/https://www.unitedautosports.com/about|archive-date=19 February 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>