Sports
- Association football club FC Ural Sverdlovsk Oblast plays in the Russian First Division.
- Futsal club MFK Viz-Sinara Yekaterinburg are the current Russian champions and the champions of UEFA Futsal Cup in 2008.
- Women basketball club UMMC Ekaterinburg are the current Russian champions and the champions of EuroLeague Women in 2003.
- Ice hockey club Avtomobilist plays in the Kontinental Hockey League.
- Bandy club SKA Sverdlovsk is one of the classical teams in which The King of Bandy, Nikolay Durakov played.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)