Editing Lviv (section)

== Sport ==
Lviv was an important centre for sport in Central Europe and is regarded as the birthplace of Polish [[Association football|football]]. Lviv is the Polish birthplace of other sports. In January 1905 the first Polish [[ice hockey|ice-hockey]] match took place there and two years later the first [[ski jumping|ski-jumping]] competition was organised in nearby [[Slavske|Sławsko]]. In the same year, the first Polish basketball games were organised in Lviv's gymnasiums. In autumn 1887 a gymnasium by Lychakiv Street (pol. ''ulica Łyczakowska'') held the first Polish [[track and field]] competition with such sports as the [[long jump]] and [[high jump]]. Lviv's athlete Władysław Ponurski represented Austria in the [[1912 Summer Olympics|1912 Olympic Games]] in [[Stockholm]]. On 9 July 1922 the first official [[rugby union|rugby]] game in Poland took place at the stadium of Pogoń Lwów in which the rugby team of Orzeł Biały Lwów divided itself into two teams – "The Reds" and "The Blacks". The referee of this game was a Frenchman by the name of Robineau.

=== Association football ===
[[File:EURO 2012 Lvov clock.jpg|thumb|A clock in Lviv on Prospekt Svobody (Freedom Ave.), showing time to start of EURO 2012. Opera and Ballet Theatre in background]]
The first known official goal in a Polish football match was scored at Pogoń Lwów on 14 July 1894 during the Lwów-Kraków game. The goal was scored by [[Włodzimierz Chomicki]] who represented the team of Lviv. In 1904 Kazimierz Hemerling from Lviv published the first translation of the rules of football into Polish and another native of Lviv, Stanisław Polakiewicz, became the first officially recognised Polish referee in 1911 the year in which the first [[Polish Football Association|Polish Football Federation]] was founded in Lviv.

The first Polish professional football club, [[Czarni Lwów]] opened here in 1903 and the first stadium, which belonged to Pogoń, in 1913. Another club, [[Pogoń Lwów]], was four times football champion of Poland (1922, 1923, 1925 and 1926). In the late 1920s, as many as four teams from the city played in the Polish Football League (Pogoń, Czarni, Hasmonea and Lechia). [[Hasmonea Lwów|Hasmonea]] was the first Jewish football club in Poland. Several notable figures of Polish football came from the city including [[Kazimierz Górski]], [[Ryszard Koncewicz]], [[Michał Matyas]] and [[Wacław Kuchar]].

In the period 1900–1911 opened the most famous football clubs in Lviv. Professor [[Ivan Bobersky]] has based in the Academic grammar school the first Ukrainian sports circle where schoolboys were engaged in track and field, football, boxing, hockey, skiing, tourism and sledge sports in 1906. He organised the "Ukrainian Sports circle" in 1908. Much its pupils in due course in 1911 formed a sports society with the loud name "Ukraine" – the first Ukrainian football club in Lviv.<ref>[http://www.boberskiy.org.ua/indexe.html "Ivan Bobersky – training of the first teachers of physical training is connected to his name."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718175536/http://www.boberskiy.org.ua/indexe.html |date=18 July 2018 }}.</ref>

Lviv now has several major professional football clubs and some smaller clubs. Two teams from the city, [[FC Rukh Lviv]] and [[FC Lviv]], currently play in the [[Ukrainian Premier League]], the top level of football in the country. [[FC Karpaty Lviv]], founded in 1963, has historically been the largest club in the city. At the end of the [[2019–20 Ukrainian Premier League]] season, Karpaty was expelled from the league for failing to appear to two games.<ref>[https://zik.ua/ru/news/sport/karpaty_oficialno_isklyucheny_iz_upl_974152 Karpaty Lviv are officially excluded from the UPL (Львовские "Карпаты" официально исключены из УПЛ)] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718052108/https://zik.ua/ru/news/sport/karpaty_oficialno_isklyucheny_iz_upl_974152|date=18 July 2020 }}. ZIK. 9 July 2020</ref> They currently play in the [[Ukrainian Second League]], the third level of Ukrainian football.

=== Stadia ===
*[[Ukraina Stadium]], which was leased to FC Karpaty Lviv until 2018.
*[[Arena Lviv]] is a brand-new football stadium that was an official venue for [[UEFA Euro 2012|Euro 2012]] Championship games in Lviv. Construction work began on 20 November 2008 and was completed by October 2011. The opening ceremony took place on 29 October, with a vast theatrical production dedicated to the history of Lviv.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/history/news/0254-0d7d294b28ab-8c0a222ec278-1000--music-and-fireworks-as-arena-lviv-opens-doors/ |title=UEFA EURO 2016 |work=[[UEFA]] |date=29 October 2011 |access-date=31 March 2020 |archive-date=6 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606010522/https://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=1706984.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Arena Lviv is the home ground of [[FC Lviv]], and played host to [[Shakhtar Donetsk]] between 2014 and 2016 due to the ongoing [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|war in Donbas]].
*[[Army Sports Club Stadium (Lviv)|SKA Stadium]], football and [[motorcycle speedway]] stadium, which holds 23,040 spectators.

=== Other sports ===
Lviv's chess school enjoys a good reputation; such notable grandmasters as [[Vasyl Ivanchuk]], [[Leonid Stein]], [[Alexander Beliavsky]], [[Andrei Volokitin]] used to live in Lviv.<ref>[http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5548 "Lviv&nbsp;– the chess capital of Ukraine"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722010540/http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5548 |date=22 July 2011 }}.</ref> Grandmaster [[Anna Muzychuk]] lives in Lviv.

[[Lviv Speedway]] is a motorcycle speedway team based at the SKA Stadium.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/first/4ec50330.html|script-title=uk:ФК "Львів" повертається до рідного міста  |trans-title=FC Lviv returns to its native city|publisher=ua-football.com |date=19 November 2011|access-date=19 November 2011|language=uk}}</ref>

Lviv [[Lviv bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics|made a bid]] to host the [[2022 Winter Olympics]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1016812/lviv-officially-enters-race-to-stage-2022-winter-olympics-and-paralympics |title=Lviv officially enters race to stage 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics |date=5 November 2013 |website=www.insidethegames.biz |access-date=7 March 2022 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002121132/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1016812/lviv-officially-enters-race-to-stage-2022-winter-olympics-and-paralympics |url-status=live }}</ref> which was withdrawn in June 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apnews.com/general-news-d65cf71209c8479084ceda139ee46449 |title=Ukraine's Lviv withdraws bid for 2022 Winter Games |date=30 June 2014 |website=AP News |access-date=19 December 2024 }}</ref>