Editing Geneva (section)

== Sport ==
[[Ice hockey]] is one of the most popular sports in Geneva.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://popular-swiss-sports.all-about-switzerland.info/ |title=Popular sports in Switzerland |publisher=popular-swiss-sports.all-about-switzerland.info| access-date=10 July 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810184111/http://popular-swiss-sports.all-about-switzerland.info/| archive-date=10 August 2011| url-status=dead }}</ref> Geneva is home to [[Genève-Servette HC]], which plays in the [[National League (ice hockey)|National League]] (NL). They play their home games in the 7,135-seat [[Patinoire des Vernets]]. In 2008, 2010 and 2021 the team made it to the league finals but lost to the [[ZSC Lions]], [[SC Bern]] and [[EV Zug]] respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eliteprospects.com/team.php?team=260 |title=Genève-Servette |publisher=Eliteprospects.com| access-date=23 June 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629214752/http://www.eliteprospects.com/team.php?team=260| archive-date=29 June 2017| url-status=live }}</ref> The team eventually won its first championship in [[2022–23 National League (ice hockey) season|2023]]. They won game 7 at home against [[EHC Biel]] in a packed Patinoire des Vernets and with an estimated 7,000 more fans watching the game on a giant TV screen in front of the arena.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.letemps.ch/sport/hockey/geneveservette-champion-suisse-hockey-euphorie-ville|title=Genève-Servette est champion de Suisse de hockey, euphorie dans la ville |date=27 April 2023 |publisher=letemps.ch| access-date=12 November 2024}}</ref> The following season, the team went on to win the [[2023–24 Champions Hockey League|Champions Hockey League]] in February 2024. They won their first European title in a packed Patinoire des Vernets and with an estimated 5,000 more fans watching the game in a fanzone in front of the arena.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tdg.ch/geneve-servette-champion-deurope-de-hockey-reportage-aux-vernets-118269890165|title=Genève-Servette champion d'Europe de hockey, reportage aux Vernets |date=20 February 2024 |publisher=tdg.ch| access-date=12 November 2024}}</ref> Historically, the team was by far the most popular one in both the city and the canton of Geneva, drawing three times more spectators than the [[Association football|football]] team in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfl.ch/fr/statistiques-archives/challengeleague/spectateurs/ |title=Nombre de spectateurs 2016/17 (French) |publisher=[[Swiss Football League]]| access-date=24 June 2017| archive-date=29 June 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629025453/http://www.sfl.ch/fr/statistiques-archives/challengeleague/spectateurs/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hockeyarenas.net/?page=0700&c=eu&ctID=ch&atType=0&show=25&tdSaison=2017 |title=Attendance CH |publisher=Hockeyarenas.net| access-date=23 June 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805140841/http://www.hockeyarenas.net/?page=0700&c=eu&ctID=ch&atType=0&show=25&tdSaison=2017| archive-date=5 August 2017| url-status=live }}</ref> 

[[Association football|Football]] is also popular and the town is home to [[Servette FC]], a club founded in 1890 and named after a borough on the right bank of the [[Rhône]]. It is the most successful football club in [[Romandy]], and the third in Switzerland overall, with 17 league titles and 8 [[Swiss Cup]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Histoire du Servette FC |url=https://servettefc.ch/index.php/club/histoire}}</ref> The home of Servette FC is the 30,000-seat [[Stade de Genève]]. Servette FC plays in the [[Swiss Super League|Credit Suisse Super League]]. Its women's team, [[Servette FC Chênois Féminin]], plays in the top tier [[Swiss Women's Super League|AXA Women's Super League]]. They play their home games in the 4,000-seat Stade des Trois-Chêne. Its latest achievement is the Swiss championship title in [[2023–24 Swiss Women's Super League|2024]]. [[Étoile Carouge FC]] is another football team that currently competes in the second tier [[Swiss Challenge League|Challenge League]]. They play their home games in the 3,600-seat [[Stade de la Fontenette]].

Geneva is also home to a semi-pro [[basketball]] team, [[Lions de Genève]], 2013 and 2015 champions of the [[Swiss Basketball League]]. The team plays its home games in the Pavilion des Sports.

Additionally, Geneva is home to an amateur [[Rugby union|rugby]] team, Servette RC, that currently competes in the fourth tier of French rugby.

The Geneva Seahawks, established in 1986, are an amateur [[American football]] team that currently plays in the [[Nationalliga A (American football)|Nationalliga A]]. The Seahawks have reached the [[Swiss Bowl]] final six times winning the championship in 1991. The team currently plays home games at Vessy Sports Center.