Editing Wakefield (section)

===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.