Editing Solingen (section)

==Sports==
===American football===
The {{ill|Solingen Paladins|de}} is an [[American football]] club which was founded in 2006.

===Association football===
Until its bankruptcy in 1990, [[SG Union Solingen]] was the main club, playing at the [[Stadion am Hermann-Löns-Weg]].

===Baseball===
The [[Solingen Alligators]] are a baseball and softball club from Solingen. The club was founded in 1991 and the first men's team was promoted to the first division of the Baseball Bundesliga for the 2003 season. It has played there in every season since, winning the league championship in 2006 and 2014. The club claims over 250 members.

===Chess===
The ''Schachgesellschaft Solingen e.V. 1868'' is best known for its chess team, which plays in the [[Chess Bundesliga|Schachbundesliga (Chess Bundesliga)]], the top tier of the German chess league system, and is the most successful club in German chess history, having won a record 12 national titles (1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1980/81, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1996/97 and 2015/16), three national cups (1986, 2006 und 2009) and 2 European cups (1976 and 1990).

===Handball===
In [[Team handball|handball]], Solingen's most successful team is ''[[Bergischer HC]]'', playing in the top-tier [[Handball-Bundesliga]] which they were promoted to for the second time in 2013, reaching 15th place in the [[2013–14 Handball-Bundesliga|2013–14 campaign]] and therefore staying in the top flight for a second consecutive season. ''BHC'' originates from a 2006 cooperation between the ''SG Solingen'' and rivals ''LTV Wuppertal'' from the nearby [[Wuppertal|city of the same name]]. The club advertises itself as a representative of the entire [[Bergisches Land]] region. The team plays its home games at both Solingen's ''Klingenhalle'' (2,600 seats) and Wuppertal's ''Uni-Halle'' (3,200 seats).