Editing Chelmsford (section)

===Sport===
[[Essex County Cricket Club]] is one of the 18 [[first-class cricket|first-class]] county clubs that make up the [[County cricket|English domestic cricket structure]], representing the county of Essex. The club is based at the [[County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford|County Ground]] in New Writtle Street close to the city centre.

[[Chelmsford City F.C.|Chelmsford City Football Club]] plays in the [[National League South]]. The club's home ground is at the Chelmsford Sport and Athletics Centre, Melbourne Park, which it shares with Chelmsford Athletic Club. Chelmsford is one of the largest settlements in England without a [[Football League]] team. The city is home to the Chelmsford Sunday League, of which there are five divisions consisting of teams from around the area. The former ground of the club{{which|date=December 2019}} the [[New Writtle Street Stadium]] hosted [[Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom|greyhound racing]] which was one of two venues to do so. The other was at Springfield on local farmland on Pump Lane corner which took place during April 1949.{{clarify|date=December 2019}} The racing at both was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the [[National Greyhound Racing Club]]) and they were known as flapping tracks, which was the nickname given to independent tracks.<ref>{{cite book|last=Barnes|first=Julia|title=Daily Mirror Greyhound Fact File, page 413|year=1988|publisher=Ringpress Books|isbn=0-948955-15-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://greyhoundracingtimes.co.uk/?s=chelmsford|title=Chelmsford|work=Greyhound Racing Times}}</ref>

The [[Chelmsford R.F.C.|Chelmsford Rugby Football Club]] was established in 1920 and for the last 40 years has been playing rugby at Coronation Park in Timpsons Lane. As of 2016 the club has over 300 members and fields up to five senior teams each week. The club as of 2016 plays in the [[London 1 North]] league, the sixth tier of English rugby. In addition to the senior teams, there are 150 youth members providing teams from under 6's to under 17's. [[Chelmsford Hockey Club]] is a men's and ladies' field hockey club based in the city. It fields eight men's teams and five ladies' teams every weekend.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} The Ladies' 1st XI compete in the [[Women's England Hockey League|English Hockey League]] Conference East as of July 2016.

'''Chelmsford Swimming Club''' has been running for over 100 years and is located in the '''Riverside Ice and Leisure''' building in Chelmsford.<ref>{{cite news|title=Metropolitan Districts|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19496904|access-date=16 May 2015|publisher=The Brisbane Courier|date=13 November 1906|quote=The Chelmsford Swimming Club held a carnival in the Manly Baths.}}</ref> Based in the same building are the [[Chelmsford Chieftains]], an ice hockey team that plays in the [[English National Ice Hockey League]]. The club promotes the use of junior players and local players from the Chelmsford and Essex area.


[[Horse racing]] has been run at two separate venues using the name Chelmsford, neither actually in the city centre itself. The sport originally took place at [[Chelmsford Racecourse]], at [[Galleywood]], from the 18th century until its closure in 1935.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hawkins|first1=Ted|title=Galloping Galleywood|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/articles/2008/04/24/galleywood_race_course_feature.shtml|publisher=BBC|access-date=2 March 2015}}</ref> A new racecourse was established at [[Great Leighs]] in 2008 and subsequently changed its name to [[Chelmsford City Racecourse]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Racing back at 'Great Leighs'|url=http://www.racehorseowners.net/en/news/index.cfm/2015fixtures|website=racehorseowners.net|access-date=2 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090342/http://www.racehorseowners.net/en/news/index.cfm/2015fixtures|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Since 2014 the city has held a [[marathon]]. Starting and ending in the city centre, the marathon takes in the city itself and the surrounding environs. The 2014 edition had over 1000 participants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Chelmsford-marathon-2015-start-Shire-Hall/story-26236352-detail/story.html|title=Chelmsford marathon 2015 will start from Shire Hall|access-date=21 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730170612/http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Chelmsford-marathon-2015-start-Shire-Hall/story-26236352-detail/story.html|archive-date=30 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Chelmsford campus of [[Anglia Ruskin University]] has many sports teams and facilities.