Editing Newfoundland and Labrador (section)

==Sports==
[[File:Mile one stadium.jpg|thumb|[[Mary Brown's Centre]] (formerly Mile One Centre) is an indoor arena in St. John's.]]
Newfoundland and Labrador has a somewhat different sports culture from the rest of Canada, owing in part to its long history separate from the rest of Canada and under British rule. [[Ice hockey]], however, remains popular; though operations ceased in April 2024, a minor league professional team called the [[Newfoundland Growlers]] of the [[ECHL]] played at [[Mary Brown's Centre]] (formerly Mile One Centre) in St. John's from the 2018–19 to 2023–24 seasons. The area had an intermittent [[American Hockey League]] presence with the [[St. John's Maple Leafs]] then [[St. John's IceCaps]] until 2017, and the [[Newfoundland Senior Hockey League]] had teams around the island. After the departure of the [[St. John's Fog Devils]] in 2008, Newfoundland and Labrador has been the only province in Canada to not have a team in the major junior [[Canadian Hockey League]]. However, this is set to change in 2025, with the [[Acadie–Bathurst Titan]] scheduled to relocate to St. John's to become [[Newfoundland Regiment (ice hockey)|Newfoundland Regiment]] in the [[QMJHL]].

[[Hurling]] and other [[Gaelic games]] have a very long history in the Province<ref>O’Grady, Brendan (2004). Exiles and Islanders: The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island. MQUP. Page 56.</ref> and continue to be played.<ref name="irishtimes.com">[http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/generation-emigration/teaching-irish-in-newfoundland-the-most-irish-place-outside-ireland-1.2575366%3fmode=amp Teaching Irish in Newfoundland, the most Irish place outside Ireland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624104436/https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/generation-emigration/teaching-irish-in-newfoundland-the-most-irish-place-outside-ireland-1.2575366?mode=amp |date=June 24, 2020 }}, by Sinéad Ní Mheallaigh, ''The Irish Times'', March 16, 2016.</ref>

[[Association football]] (soccer) and [[rugby union]] are both more popular in Newfoundland and Labrador than the rest of Canada in general. Soccer is hosted at [[King George V Park]], a 6,000-seat stadium built as Newfoundland's national stadium during the time as an independent dominion. [[Swilers Rugby Park]] is home of the [[Swilers RFC]] rugby union club, as well as the [[Atlantic Rock]], one of the four regional teams in the [[Canadian Rugby Championship]]. Other sports facilities in Newfoundland and Labrador include [[Pepsi Centre]], an indoor arena in Corner Brook; and [[St. Patrick's Park]], a baseball park in St. John's.

[[Gridiron football]], be it either [[American football|American]] or [[Canadian football|Canadian]], is almost non-existent; it is the only Canadian province other than [[Prince Edward Island]] to have never hosted a [[Canadian Football League]] or [[CIS football|Canadian Interuniversity Sport]] game, and it was not until 2013 the province saw its first amateur teams form.

[[Cricket]] was once a popular sport. The earliest mention is in the ''Newfoundland Mercantile Journal'', Thursday September 16, 1824, indicating the St. John's Cricket Club was an established club at this time.<ref name="cancricket">{{cite web|url=http://www.canadacricket.com/nlcricket/?page_id=4|title=History – Cricket Newfoundland and Labrador|website=canadacricket.com|access-date=June 22, 2017|archive-date=July 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701180318/http://www.canadacricket.com/nlcricket/?page_id=4|url-status=live}}</ref> The St. John's Cricket club was one of the first cricket clubs in North America. Other centres were at [[Harbour Grace]], [[Twillingate]] and [[Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador|Trinity]]. The heyday of the game was the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, at which time there was league in St. John's, as well as an interschool tournament. John Shannon Munn is Newfoundland's most famous cricketer, having represented Oxford University. After the first World War, cricket declined in popularity and was replaced by soccer and baseball. However, with the arrival of immigrants from the [[Indian subcontinent]], cricket is once again gaining interest in the province.<ref name="cancricket" />

In 2024 Newfoundland and Labrador became the shirt sponsors of [[Barrow A.F.C.]], an association football (soccer) team located in North West England.