Editing Geleen (section)

==Sports and events==
* The soccer club [[Fortuna Sittard|Fortuna '54]], was the former soccer club of Geleen.
* Geleen has a professional ice hockey team called the [[Geleen Eaters]].
* The handball club [[Vlug en Lenig]] is from Geleen.
* The pop and rock festival [[Pinkpop]], the oldest and longest running annual dedicated pop and rock music festival in the world,<ref name="Pollstar">{{cite news |last=Gammon |first=John |date=17 June 2011 |title=Six In A Row For Pinkpop |url=http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=771453 |location=London, U.K. |publisher=[[Pollstar]] |access-date=13 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813184357/http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=771453 |archive-date=13 August 2014 }}</ref><ref name="VPRO 1">{{cite web |url=http://www.geschiedenis24.nl/nieuws/2010/mei/Pinkpop-is-langstlopende-popfestival-ter-wereld.html |title=Pinkpop is langstlopende popfestival ter wereld |language=nl |trans-title=Pinkpop is longest running pop festival in the world |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=18 May 2010 |website=geschiedenis.vpro.nl/ |publisher=[[VPRO]] independent Dutch [[Netherlands Public Broadcasting|public broadcaster]] |access-date=13 August 2014}}</ref> also has its roots in Geleen. It was held there from 1970 until 1986. This festival was held in the [[Burgemeester Damen Sportpark]], which includes the sports centre Glanerbrook. The nearby swimming pool was popular with the artists, who enjoyed themselves backstage.
* In Geleen there's a yearly town [[fair]] (one week after [[Whitsun]]).
* Stage 5 of Eneco [[Tour of Benelux]] a [[road bicycle racing]] and part of the [[UCI ProTour]] finished in Geleen on August 16, 2013.