Editing Forfar (section)

==Local sport==
===Football===
The town is home to semi-professional [[association football|football]] club [[Forfar Athletic F.C.|Forfar Athletic]], who are members of the [[Scottish Professional Football League]] and currently play in [[Scottish League Two|League Two]] and two [[Scottish Junior Football Association|SJFA]] clubs, [[Forfar West End F.C.|Forfar West End]], and [[Forfar United F.C.|Forfar United]], who both currently play in the [[Midlands Football League]]. Forfar Athletic's ground, [[Station Park, Forfar|Station Park]], plays host to matches featuring [[Dundee United F.C.|Dundee United]] Reserves.

Youth and women's football is available in the town, with Forfar Boys F.C (boys only), Lochside Boys F.C<ref>http://www.lochsideboysfc.co.uk {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130712120546/http://lochsideboysfc.co.uk/ |date=12 July 2013 }}</ref> (boys only) and [[Forfar Farmington F.C.|Forfar Farmington F.C]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forfarfarmington.com/|title=Forfar Farmington Football Club – North East's Girl's & Women's Football since 1984}}</ref> (boys, girls and women). All the clubs have SFA Quality Mark Award at some level.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

===Rugby league===
Forfar has a [[Scottish National League (rugby league)|National League]] rugby league team, the [[Strathmore Silverbacks]], who share Inchmacoble Park as their home ground with the local rugby union team.

===Rugby union===
Rugby Union is represented in the town by [[Strathmore RFC|Strathmore Rugby Football Club]], who play their home games at Inchmacoble Park, beside Forfar Loch. The club has men's and ladies' teams.

===Golf===
The Forfar Golf Club,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forfargolfclub.co.uk/ |title=Home |website=forfargolfclub.co.uk}}</ref> founded in 1871, has the fourth oldest 18 hole course in the world, and is the first club to have an 18-hole course from inception and inauguration. The course was designed by [[Old Tom Morris|Tom Morris Snr]], and in 1926 alterations recommended by five time [[Open Championship]] winner [[James Braid (golfer)|James Braid]] were implemented. The letter with Braid's recommendations is on display in the clubhouse.

The Forfar Golf Club has hosted the [[Scottish PGA Championship]] twice, once in 1932 and again in 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forfargolfclub.co.uk/course-2/history/|title = History}}</ref>

===Cricket===
Strathmore Cricket Club,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://strathmorecc.intheteam.com/modules/page/page.aspx?type=home&mid=12181&pmid=0 |title=Strathmore Cricket Club |access-date=13 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713050232/http://strathmorecc.intheteam.com/modules/page/page.aspx?type=home&mid=12181&pmid=0 |archive-date=13 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> founded in 1862, has played at Lochside Park since 1873.

===Other sports and facilities===
The town has a dedicated community campus. 

There is a skatepark near the Forfar loch. Forfar has an ice rink which was built in the early 1990s and this is home to the local curling club.

There are three [[Bowls|bowling]] clubs in Forfar: Forfar Bowling Club, Canmore Bowling Club and Forfar Indoor Bowling Club. Both Forfar Bowling Club and Canmore Bowling Club have outdoor bowling greens.

Forfar Loch is home to Forfar Sailing Club.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://forfarsailingclub.org.uk/portal/ |title=FORFAR SAILING CLUB - Home |access-date=2007-10-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070912055917/http://forfarsailingclub.org.uk/portal/ |archive-date=12 September 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Angus Gliding Club operates at Roundyhill, between Glamis and Kirriemuir.