Editing Stavanger (section)

===Sport and recreation===
[[File:Vinking FK Stadion IMG 20230724 205302.jpg|thumb|[[Viking Stadion]] in 2023]]
[[File:Stavanger Oilers vs Ilves 4 October 2022 1.jpg|thumb|[[Stavanger Oilers]] has won seven Norwegian championship titles]]
The largest local [[football (soccer)|football]] club in Stavanger is [[Viking FK]], one of the most successful football clubs in Norwegian history, having won a total of eight [[Eliteserien|league]] titles and five [[Norwegian Football Cup]] titles. The club plays its home matches at [[SR-Bank Arena]], which was opened in 2004.

After a short stint in the second-tier division, [[OBOS-ligaen]], in the 2018 season, Viking FK was once again promoted to the top-tier Eliteserien, and is to date the club with the most seasons at the highest level of Norwegian football, along with Trondheim rival [[Rosenborg BK]]. Their best performance in Europe is reaching the group stage of the [[2005–06 UEFA Cup]], where they placed 4th in a group of 5.

[[FK Vidar]], another local football club, plays in [[Norwegian Third Division|3. divisjon]] as of April 2025, the fourth tier on the men's football league pyramid.

[[Stavanger Oilers]] is the only western team in the top Norwegian [[ice hockey]] league, [[Fjordkraftligaen]]. It has won a total of seven Norwegian championship titles. The club plays its home matches at [[DNB Arena (Stavanger)|DNB Arena]], which was opened in 2012. They have once progressed past the group stage in [[Champions Hockey League]], which was in the [[2015–16 Champions Hockey League|2015–16 season]].

The [[team handball|handball]] team Stavanger Håndball plays in the Norwegian second division.

Stavanger was the host of the 2009 [[beach volleyball]] SWATCH FIVB World Championships.

The [[Sørmarka Arena]] is an indoor multi-purpose ice rink used for (inter)national ice speed skating competitions.

Stavanger is known to have been one of several available starting points in the 1931, 1935, and 1937 editions of the [[Monte Carlo Rally]]. In the 1937 edition the top 3 all started from Stavanger.

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!Club!!Sport!!Founded!!League!!Venue!!Head coach(es)
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|[[Viking FK]]
|[[Association football|Football]]
|1899
|[[Eliteserien]]
|[[SR-Bank Arena]]
|[[Bjarte Lunde Aarsheim]]<br />[[Morten Jensen (football coach)|Morten Jensen]]
|-
|[[Stavanger Oilers]]
|[[Ice hockey]]
|2000
|[[Fjordkraftligaen]]
|[[DNB Arena (Stavanger)|DNB Arena]]
|[[Todd Bjorkstrand]]
|}