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Sport in Slovakia is influenced by its climate and geography; popular summer sports include football, tennis, volleyball, swimming, cycling and hiking, popular winter sports include skiing and snowboarding. [1] The most watched sports in Slovakia are football, ice hockey and tennis.
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Slovan Bratislava competes in the top Slovak league Women's Extraliga, and Inter Bratislava in Men's Extraliga. ŠKP (Športový Klub Polície - Police Sports Club) Bratislava is a handball club. Its women's handball team, founded in 1993, plays in the Women's Handball International League, which is a joint Czech and Slovak top handball league. [5]
The following is a list of football stadiums in Slovakia, ordered by capacity. The minimum required capacity is 1,000. The largest football stadium by capacity in Slovakia is the 22,500-capacity Tehelne Pole in Bratislava. Stadiums in bold are part of 2024-25 Slovak First Football League.
[1] [2] [3] Slovakia qualified to the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 2010, where the side upset perennial power Italy and lost in the Round of 16. [4] Since independence, they qualified for the UEFA European Championship for their first time in 2016. Football is the most popular sport in the Slovak Republic.
The Slovak mountains provide very good conditions for pursuing this sport, and ski-alpinism fans recommend Jasenská dolina in the Veľká Fatra Mts., the area of Chopok and Ďumbier in the Low Tatras, Malá Studená dolina and Veľká Studená dolina and Skalnatá dolina in the High Tatras, Roháče and Žiarska dolina in the Western Tatras ...
The following is a list of indoor arenas in Slovakia with capacity of at least 2,000 spectators. Most of the arenas in this list are for multi use proposes such as individual sports , team sports as well as cultural and political events.
Slovakia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1994, and has sent athletes to compete in every Games since then. Prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, Slovak athletes competed for Czechoslovakia at the Olympics. Slovak athletes have won a total of thirty three medals at the Summer Olympic Games, mostly in slalom canoeing.