Editing Oldham (section)

== Sport ==
[[File:Boundary Park.jpg|thumb|[[Boundary Park]] is Oldham's main sports stadium, and is used by [[Oldham Athletic A.F.C.]] and [[Oldham RLFC]]]]
[[Oldham R.L.F.C.|Oldham Rugby League Football Club]] was established in 1876 as Oldham Football Club.<ref name="Oldham Beyond" /> Renamed in 1997 to Oldham R.L.F.C., it has achieved several club honours during its history, winning the [[Rugby Football League Championship]] five times and [[Challenge Cup]] three times.<ref name="Oldham Rugby">{{cite web |url=http://www.orl-heritagetrust.org.uk/HTML%20docs/Club_honours.htm |publisher=orl-heritagetrust.org.uk |access-date=11 November 2007 |title=Club Honours |archive-date=14 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114212154/http://www.orl-heritagetrust.org.uk/HTML%20docs/Club_honours.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> They played at [[Watersheddings]] for years before joining Oldham Athletic A.F.C. at [[Boundary Park]] until 2010 when they moved to Oldham Borough's previous ground, [[Whitebank Stadium]].<ref name="Oldham Rugby" />

[[Oldham Athletic A.F.C.|Oldham Athletic Association Football Club]], known as The Latics, was founded in 1895 as Pine Villa Football Club.<ref name="oldhamathletic-hist">{{cite web |title=History – Oldham Athletic |url=https://www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/club/club-history/ |website=www.oldhamathletic.co.uk |access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref> Oldham Athletic have achieved both league and cup successes, particularly under [[Joe Royle]] in the 1990s.<ref name="Oldham Beyond" /> They were [[Football League]] runners-up in the [[1914–15 in English football|last season before the outbreak]] of the [[First World War]], but were relegated from the [[Football League First Division|First Division]] in 1923. They reached the [[Football League Cup|League Cup]] final in 1990 and won the [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] title in 1991, ending 68&nbsp;years outside the top flight. They secured their top division status a year later to become founder members of the new [[Premier League]],<ref name="Bandage Bridge" /> but were relegated after [[1993–94 in English football|two seasons]] despite reaching that year's [[FA Cup]] semi-finals. A long slow fall through the divisions followed this relegation, until they established the unwanted record of being the first ever former Premier League club to lose their Football League status at the end of the 2021–22 season. As of the [[2022–23 in English football|2022–23 season]] they play in the [[National League (division)|National League]], the fifth tier of the English football pyramid.<ref name="efl">{{cite web |title=EFL Official Website – Oldham Athletic |url=https://www.efl.com/clubs-and-competitions/sky-bet-league-two/clubs/oldham-athletic/ |website=www.efl.com |access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref>

[[Oldham Borough F.C.|Oldham Borough]] was established in 1964 as Oldham Dew FC, and after many years playing under the name of Oldham Town changed its name to Oldham Boro in 2009, finally becoming known as Oldham Borough just months before it folded. The team played in the [[North West Counties Football League]] before going out of existence in 2015, just over fifty years after it was founded.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/oldhamborofc |title=Oldham Boro Football Club |access-date=20 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201816/http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/oldhamborofc/ |archive-date=3 March 2016 }}</ref>

Oldham Netball Club's senior team is the 2019–2020 national league division 1 champion<ref name="netballpremier">{{cite web |title=2019/20 Premier League 1 – Table and Results |url=https://www.englandnetball.co.uk/competitions/premier-leagues/premier-league-1/ |website=England Netball |access-date=17 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413023501/https://www.englandnetball.co.uk/competitions/premier-leagues/premier-league-1/ |archive-date=13 April 2021}}</ref> and has won seven out of the last eight titles. Former players include England's most capped player [[Jade Clarke]].<ref name="netballjade">{{cite web |title=Where it all Began: Jade Clarke |url=https://www.englandnetball.co.uk/where-it-all-began-jade-clarke/ |website=England Netball |access-date=17 July 2021 |date=19 July 2019}}</ref>

Oldham has league cricket teams with a number of semi-professional league clubs including [[Oldham Cricket Club|Oldham CC]], and [[Werneth Cricket Club|Werneth CC]], both playing in the [[Greater Manchester Cricket League]] (GMCL).<ref name="gmcl">{{cite web |title=Greater Manchester Cricket League (GMCL) |url=https://www.crichq.com/organisations/731/clubs |website=www.crichq.com |access-date=17 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210717172435/https://www.crichq.com/organisations/731/clubs |archive-date=17 July 2021}}</ref> Oldham CC was one of the founding members, in 1892, of the  [[Central Lancashire Cricket League]], which closed in 2015.<ref name="cricketpundit">{{cite web |title=Oldham Cricket Club |url=https://www.sportspundit.com/cricket/teams/2306-oldham-cricket-club |website=Sports Pundit |access-date=17 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="mchugh">{{cite news |last1=McHugh |first1=Keith |title=Thanks for the memories |url=https://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/13/local-sport-news/93974/thanks-for-the-memories |access-date=17 July 2021 |work=www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk |date=11 September 2015}}</ref>

The Manchester [[Fencing]] Centre in Oldham opened in 2015 in the former Osborne Mill, and at {{convert|17,000|sqft}} was said to be "the largest centre of its kind".<ref name="roue">{{cite news |last1=Roue |first1=Lucy |title=En Garde! Largest fencing centre opens in Oldham |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/en-garde-largest-fencing-centre-10621704 |access-date=17 July 2021 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=20 December 2015 |language=en}}</ref> The Marshall Fencing Club trains there, under head coach and Commonwealth games medallist Stuart Marshall, and in 2019 won six gold medals at eight national ranking events.<ref name="fencingwins">{{cite news |title=Oldham fencing club celebrates six gold medals in eight national events |url=https://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/142/community-news/125637/oldham-fencing-club-celebrates-six-gold-medals-in-eight-national-events |access-date=17 July 2021 |work=www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk |date=24 January 2019}}</ref>