Editing Leipzig (section)

==Sports==
There are more than 300 sport clubs in the city, representing 78 different disciplines. Over 400 athletic facilities are available to citizens and club members.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/freizeit/sport/tradition/sportlich/02544.shtml |title=Das Leipziger Sportangebot aktuell |publisher=leipzig.de |access-date=2 December 2010 |language=de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228223928/http://www.leipzig.de/de/buerger/freizeit/sport/tradition/sportlich/02544.shtml |archive-date=28 February 2008}}</ref>

===Football===
[[File:Leipzig stadium.jpg|thumb|The [[Red Bull Arena (Leipzig)|Red Bull Arena]] from above. Home of RB Leipzig.]]
[[File:BrunoPlacheStadion.JPG|thumb|[[Bruno-Plache-Stadion]] is the home stadion of [[1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig]].]]
The [[German Football Association]] (DFB) was founded in Leipzig in 1900. The city was the venue for the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]] draw, and hosted four first-round matches and one match in the round of 16 in the [[Zentralstadion (Leipzig)|central stadium]].

[[VfB Leipzig]] won the first national Association football championship in 1903. The club was dissolved in 1946 and the remains reformed as SG Probstheida. The club was eventually reorganized as football club 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig in 1966. 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig has had a glorious past in international competition as well, having been champions of the [[1965–66 Intertoto Cup]], semi-finalists in the [[1973–74 UEFA Cup]], and runners-up in the [[1986–87 European Cup Winners' Cup]].

[[Red Bull]] took over a local 5th division football club [[SSV Markranstädt]] in May 2009, having previously been denied the right to buy into [[FC Sachsen Leipzig]] in 2006. The club was renamed [[RB Leipzig]] and came up through the ranks of German football, winning promotion to the [[Bundesliga]], the highest division of German football in 2016.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Christoph |last=Ruf |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,631450,00.html |title=Buying Its Way to the Bundesliga – Red Bull Wants to Caffeinate Small football Club |journal=Spiegel Online International |date=19 June 2009 |access-date=2 December 2010 |archive-date=28 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128034741/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,631450,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The club finished runners-up in its first-ever Bundesliga season and made its debut in the [[UEFA Champions League]] in 2017 and the Semi-Final in 2020.

RB Leipzig won the [[DFB-Pokal]] football cup twice, in 2022 and 2023. 

List of Leipzig men and women's football clubs playing at state level and above:

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|- bgcolor="#efefef"
! class="unsortable"|Club
! Founded
! class="unsortable"|League
! Level
! class="unsortable"|Home ground
! Capacity
|-
|align=left|[[RB Leipzig]]||2009||align=left|[[Bundesliga]]||1||align=left|[[Red Bull Arena (Leipzig)|Red Bull Arena]]||47,069
|-
|align=left|[[RB Leipzig affiliated teams#Women's football|RB Leipzig (women)]]||2016[[#fn 1|<sup>1</sup>]]||align=left|[[2. Frauen-Bundesliga]]||2||align=left|Sportanlage Gontardweg||1,300
|-
|align=left|[[1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig]]||2003||align=left|[[Regionalliga Nordost]]||4||align=left|[[Bruno-Plache-Stadion]]||7,000
|-
|align=left|[[BSG Chemie Leipzig (1997)|BSG Chemie Leipzig]]||1997[[#fn 2|<sup>2</sup>]]||align=left|[[Regionalliga Nordost]]||4||align=left|[[Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark]]||4,999
|-
|align=left|[[Inter Leipzig|FC International Leipzig]]||2013||align=left|[[NOFV-Oberliga Süd]]||5||align=left|Sportpark Tresenwald||1,500
|-
|align=left|[[Roter Stern Leipzig]]||1999||align=left|[[Landesklasse]] Sachsen Nord||7||align=left|Sportpark Dölitz||1,200
|-
|}
Note 1: The RB Leipzig women's football team was formed in 2016 and began play in the 2016–17 season.<br />
Note 2: The club began play in the 2008–09 season.

===Ice hockey===
Since the beginning of the 20th century, [[ice hockey]] has gained popularity, and several local clubs established departments dedicated to that sport.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sportmuseum-leipzig.de/Ablage-Zeitung/4-2001/seite-5_A.htm |title=Was einst mit dem Krummstab begann ... Zur Geschichte des Eishockeysports in der Region Leipzig |author=Fritz Rudolph |publisher=sportmuseum-leipzig.de |access-date=2 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115042649/http://www.sportmuseum-leipzig.de/Ablage-Zeitung/4-2001/seite-5_A.htm |archive-date=15 January 2010}}</ref>

===Handball===
[[SC DHfK Leipzig Handball|SC DHfK Leipzig]] is the men's handball club in Leipzig and were six times (1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965 and 1966) the champion of East Germany handball league and was winner of [[EHF Champions League]] in 1966. They finally promoted to [[Handball-Bundesliga]] as champions of [[2. Handball-Bundesliga|2. Bundesliga]] in 2014–15 season. They play in the [[Arena Leipzig]] which has a capacity of 6,327 spectators in [[Handball-Bundesliga|HBL]] games but can take up to 7,532 spectators for handball in maximum capacity.

[[Handball Club Leipzig|Handball-Club Leipzig]] is one of the most successful women's handball clubs in Germany, winning 21 domestic championships since 1953 and 2 [[Women's EHF Champions League|Champions League]] titles. The team was however relegated to the third tier league in 2017 due to failing to achieve the economic standard demanded by the league licence.

===American football===
[[Leipzig Kings]] is an [[American football]] team playing in the [[European League of Football]] (ELF), which is a planned professional league, that is set to become the first fully professional league in Europe since the demise of [[NFL Europe]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Football-Comeback des Jahres: Hamburg Sea Devils und Frankfurt Galaxy starten in der ELF |url=https://www.ran.de/american-football/elf/elf-news/football-comeback-des-jahres-hamburg-sea-devils-und-frankfurt-galaxy-starten-in-der-elf-116073 |access-date=9 March 2021 |date=9 March 2021 |website=ran.de |language=German }}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The Kings will start playing games against teams from Germany, Spain and Poland in June 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Neues Hamburger Footballteam spielt im Stadion Hoheluft |url=https://www.abendblatt.de/sport/article231587759/Neues-Hamburger-Footballteam-spielt-im-Stadion-Hoheluft.html |publisher=Hamburger Abendblatt |access-date=17 February 2021 |language=German |date=17 February 2021 |archive-date=17 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217163437/https://www.abendblatt.de/sport/article231587759/Neues-Hamburger-Footballteam-spielt-im-Stadion-Hoheluft.html |url-status=live }}</ref> They play their home games at [[Alfred-Kunze-Sportpark]].

=== Speedway ===
The [[Motodrom am Cottaweg]] is a [[motorcycle speedway]] stadium on the west side of the Neue Luppe, located on the Cottaweg road.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.leipzig.de/freizeit-kultur-und-tourismus/sport/sportstaettenbelegung/detailseite/detailseite/sportobjekt-motodrom |title=Sportobjekt Motodrom |website=Stadt Leipzig |access-date=12 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://foursquare.com/v/motodrom-am-cottaweg/59cf732aa2a6ce3947a1df44 |title=Motodrom Am Cottaweg |website=Four Square |access-date=12 February 2024}}</ref> The venue is used by the speedway club called Motorsport Club Post Leipzig e.V.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mcpostleipzig.de/ |title=MC Post auf der Motorrad Messe Leipzig |website=MC Post Leipzig |access-date=12 February 2024 |archive-date=16 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240216210834/https://www.mcpostleipzig.de/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and held the [[German Individual Speedway Championship|East German Speedway Championship]] in 1978 and a qualifying round of the [[Speedway World Team Cup]] in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/ |title=Speedway World Cup |website=International Speedway |access-date=12 February 2024 |archive-date=5 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205143344/http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

===Other sports===
[[File:Markkleeberger See Wildwasseranlage2.jpg|thumb|The artificial whitewater course [[Kanupark Markkleeberg]] at Markkleeberger See]]
From 1950 to 1990 Leipzig was host of the Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur (DHfK, German College of Physical Culture), the national sports college of the GDR.

Leipzig also hosted the [[Fencing]] World Cup in 2005 and hosts a number of international competitions in a variety of sports each year.

Leipzig made a bid to host the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]. The bid did not make the shortlist after the International Olympic Committee pared the bids down to 5.

[[Markkleeberger See]] is a new lake next to [[Markkleeberg]], a suburb on the south side of Leipzig. A former [[Coal mining|open-pit coal mine]], it was flooded in 1999 with groundwater and developed in 2006 as a tourist area. On its southeastern shore is Germany's only pump-powered [[artificial whitewater]] slalom course, Markkleeberg Canoe Park (Kanupark Markkleeberg), a venue which rivals the [[Eiskanal]] in [[Augsburg]] for training and international canoe/kayak competition.

Leipzig Rugby Club competes in the German Rugby Bundesliga but finished at the bottom of their group in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leipzig-rugby.de/ |title=Rugby Club Leipzig e.V. |work=leipzig-rugby.de |access-date=27 May 2013 |archive-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410193747/https://www.leipzig-rugby.de/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Leipzig hosted the [[2015 Men's Indoor Hockey World Cup|Indoor Hockey World Cup]] in 2015. All matches were played in [[Leipzig Arena]], with the Netherlands coming out victorious in both the men's and women's tournaments.

On [[May 1|1 May]] every year, the opening of the [[horse racing]] season is celebrated in Leipzig's [[Racecourse Scheibenholz]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Galop in Scheibenholz |url=https://www.leipzig.travel/en/event/aufgalopp-im-scheibenholz |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=leipzig.travel |language=en}}</ref>