Editing Fukuoka (section)

==Sports==
[[File:FUKUOKA DOME.JPG|thumb|[[Fukuoka PayPay Dome]]]]
[[File:Level5_Stadium_02.JPG|thumb|[[Level-5 Stadium]]]]

Fukuoka is the home of the [[Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks]], one of Japan's top professional [[baseball]] teams. Threatened with bankruptcy and forced by its creditors to restructure, former owner [[Daiei]] sold the Hawks to [[Softbank Group]] in 2004. After the sale to Softbank, the Hawks have become one of the most successful teams in [[Nippon Professional Baseball|NPB]], winning 6 [[Japan Series]] title in 8 years. Their home stadium is the [[Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka]].

Fukuoka is home to a professional [[association football|football]] team, [[Avispa Fukuoka]].

Annual sporting events include:
*The All Japan Judo Category Championships are held in early April.
*The [[Kyushu ekiden]], beginning in [[Nagasaki]] and ending in Fukuoka, the world's longest [[relay race]], held in October. (Defunct)
*The November [[honbasho|tournament]] of professional [[Sumo]] is held at the [[Fukuoka Convention Center|Fukuoka Kokusai Center]].

Fukuoka has hosted the following sporting events:
*[[Fukuoka Marathon]] from 1947 through 2021.
*[[1983 Asian Volleyball Championship for Women]]
*[[1995 Summer Universiade]]
*[[1997 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships]]
*[[1998 Women's Volleyball World Championship]]
*[[1999 Asian Basketball Championship]]
*[[2001 World Aquatics Championships]].
*[[2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships]].
*Fukuoka International Women's [[Judo]] Championships from 1983 to 2006.
*[[2013–14 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final]]
*[[2023 World Aquatics Championships]]

===Sports teams and facilities===
{|class=wikitable
|-
! scope="col" | Club
! scope="col" | Sports
! scope="col" | League
! scope="col" | Venue
! scope="col" | Established
|-
| [[Kyuden Voltex]]
| [[Rugby union|Rugby]]
| [[Top League]]
| [[Level-5 Stadium]]
| 1951
|-
| [[Coca-Cola Red Sparks]]
| [[Rugby union|Rugby]]
| [[Top League]]
| Sawayaka Sports Park
| 1966
|-
| [[Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks]]
| [[Baseball]]
| [[Pacific League]]
| [[Fukuoka PayPay Dome]]
| 1989 (year of relocation from [[Ōsaka]] as Daiei Hawks, changed to current name from 2005)
|-
| [[Avispa Fukuoka]]
| Association football
| [[J. League]]
| [[Hakata no mori stadium|Level-5 Stadium]]
| 1995 (year of relocation from [[Fujieda, Shizuoka]] as Fukuoka Blux, changed to current name from 1996)
|-
| Fukuoka J-Anclas
| Association football
| [[L. League|Nadeshiko League]]
| Level-5 Stadium
| 1986 (as Fukuoka Jogakuin High School football club, changed to a senior club team and participated Nadeshiko League Div. 2 from 2006)
|-
| [[Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka]]
| [[Basketball]]
| [[B.League]]
| Accion Fukuoka
| 2007
|-
| [[Otonari Fukuoka Suns|Fukuoka Suns]]
| [[American Football]]
| [[X-League (Japan)|X-League]]
| [[Hakata-ku, Fukuoka]]
|2017
|}