Editing Samara (section)

==Sports==
[[File:Samara Arena.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Cosmos Arena]]  hosted the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]] games]]
Several sports clubs are active in the city:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Club !! Sport !! Founded !! Current League !! League<br />Tier !! Stadium
|-
|[[PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara|Krylia Sovetov]]
|[[Association football|Football]]
|1942
|[[Russian Premier League]]
|1st
|[[Cosmos Arena|Samara Arena]]
|-
|[[CSK VVS Samara (ice hockey)|CSK VVS Samara]]
|[[Ice Hockey]]
|1950
|[[Supreme Hockey League|VHL]]
|2nd
|Kristall Ice Palace
|-
|[[BC Samara|Samara]]
|[[Basketball]]
|1976
|[[Russian Basketball Super League 1]]
|2nd
|MTL Arena
|-
|Krylia Sovetov
|[[Beach Soccer]]
|2010
|[[Russian Beach Soccer Championships]]
|1st
|Volga Stadium
|-
|[[Dinamo-Samara]]
|[[Futsal]]
|2018
|[[Russian Futsal Super League]]
|1st
|MTL Arena
|}

Samara is also a popular venue for National and International [[Ice speedway]], and the City won the Russian Ice Speedway Premier League in 2012/13 season,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icespeedway.co.uk/russia.html |title=Russia |publisher=Icespeedway.co.uk |date= |access-date=2022-03-16}}</ref> meaning they will now compete in the Super League in the 2013/14 season. Samara is one of eleven cities hosting the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]] with 6 matches (4 Group Stage matches, 1 Round of 16 match, 1 Quarter-Final) which will take place in the newly built [[Cosmos Arena]] stadium.
The stadium's seating capacity is 45,000.

During the World Cup, the city hosted the FIFA Fan Fest on the Kuibysheva Square. Up to 20,000 fans were able to participate in the event at a time.

Three new training fields have been built in the city for the FIFA World Cup. Two major roads have been repaired before the championship: the airport road and Moskovskoye Highway.