Editing Swansea (section)

==Sport==
{{Further|Swansea City A.F.C.|Swansea RFC|Ospreys (rugby union){{!}}Ospreys}}
[[File:New Morfa Stadium - geograph.org.uk - 32243.jpg|thumb|The Swansea.com Stadium, formerly known as the Liberty Stadium]]
Swansea City A.F.C. was founded in 1912 and is the city's main football association team. Originally playing at the [[Vetch Field]], they moved to the [[Swansea.com Stadium]] (then known as the Liberty Stadium) at the start of the 2005–06 season, winning promotion to League One in their final year at their old stadium. The team presently play in the [[English Championship]], after spending seven seasons in the English [[Premier League]]. The Football Association of Wales had decided that for the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign, Wales would play all of their home ties at either the [[Cardiff City Stadium]] or the Liberty Stadium.

Swansea has four association football clubs that play in the [[Welsh football league system]]: [[Swansea University F.C.]], [[Garden Village F.C.|Garden Village]], [[South Gower A.F.C.|South Gower]] and [[West End F.C.|West End]].

[[File:Swansea Cricket and Football Club - geograph.org.uk - 1485873.jpg|thumb|Swansea Rugby and Cricket Club]]

Swansea is home to Swansea Rugby Football Club (Swansea RFC), a founder member of the [[Welsh Rugby Union]] and one of the most important teams in the early history of Welsh [[rugby union]]. Playing out of [[St Helens Rugby and Cricket Ground]] the club not only produced several of the greatest Welsh rugby superstars, including [[Billy Bancroft]] and [[Billy Trew]], they also hosted national touring sides from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. Known as the ''All Whites'', Swansea kept a constant supply of players that filled the Welsh ranks in the early history of the game. In 1935 Swansea became the first club side to beat the [[New Zealand national rugby union team|All Blacks]].

In 2003, Swansea RFC merged with [[Neath RFC]] to form the ''Ospreys''. Swansea RFC remained at St Helen's in semi-professional form, but the Ospreys moved into the Liberty Stadium in Landore for the start of the 2005–06 season. Neath-Swansea rugby games used to be hotly contested matches, such that there was some debate about whether a team incorporating both areas was possible. The team came fifth in the [[Pro14|Celtic League]] in their first year of existence and topped that league in their second year. By 2012, they had won the league a then-record four times.

[[St Helens Rugby and Cricket Ground]] is the home of [[Swansea RFC]] and [[Glamorgan County Cricket Club]] have previously played matches there.<ref>{{cite web |title = Glamorgan First-Class Matches played on St Helen's, Swansea |publisher = Cricket Archive |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Glamorgan/Grounds/780_f.html |access-date = 27 June 2006 |url-status = dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515133143/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Glamorgan/Grounds/780_f.html
 |archive-date = 15 May 2007 |df = dmy-all}}</ref> In this ground, Sir [[Garfield Sobers]] hit six sixes in one over; the first time this was achieved in a game of [[first-class cricket]]. The final ball landed on the ground past the Cricketers' pub just outside the ground.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/homes/antiques/tm_headline=two-pieces-of-welsh-sporting-history-auctioned&method=full&objectid=18102661&siteid=50082-name_page.html | title=Two pieces of Welsh sporting history auctioned | publisher=icWales.co.uk |year=2006| access-date=27 July 2007 }}</ref> It is also the home of the tallest floodlight stand in Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Glamorgan/History/St_Helens/pictures/st_helens_6.jpg |title=Cricket archive |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107020047/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Glamorgan/History/St_Helens/pictures/st_helens_6.jpg |archive-date=7 November 2012}}</ref>

Swansea's [[rugby league]] side plays {{convert|13|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} from Swansea in the small town of [[Ystalyfera]]. They are known as the ''Swansea Valley Miners'', but were formed as the ''Swansea Bulls'' in 2002.

The [[Swansea Bowls Stadium]] opened in early 2008. The stadium hosted the World Indoor Singles and Mixed Pairs Championship in April 2008 and the Gravelles Welsh International Open Bowls Championships in 2009.