Editing Leipzig (section)

===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.