Sport in the Australian Capital Territory

They are Australia's most successful Super Rugby franchise having won the competition three times, and reaching the playoffs on several occasions.

Canberra United FC competes in the A-League Women (formerly known as the W-League), and have won a championship (2011–12) and two minor premierships (2011–12 and 2013–14).

As an addition to the 2009 sporting calendar an international Asian Cup qualifier was scheduled between Australia and Kuwait at Canberra Stadium.

Players developed through the system are then eligible to play for the Country Origin team and the New South Wales Blues at representative level.

Australian Football League clubs have irregularly played matches at Manuka Oval since 2001 although there is still no official Canberra-based AFL team.

The ACT Men's Amateur Basketball Association was formed on the initiative of Kel McGrath, the first Life member, the then director-general of the Australian Forestry School in the early 1950s with RMC Duntroon, the YMCA and the Australian Forestry School forming the nucleus of the embryo competition.

The first interstate league in which Canberra (ACT) participated was the South Eastern Conference formed in 1967 until 1972.

1979 saw the creation of the Canberra Cannons was a National Basketball League team, one of the 10 founding clubs it competed between 1979 and 2002 when recurrent financial and management woes finally saw the teams demise, to be later resurrected as the Hunter Pirates and later still as the Singapore Slingers before finally disappearing from sight.

The Capitals gained entry to the WNBL in 1985, the year in which they won the NSW Club Championship and the Australian Women's Basketball Conference premiership defeating Dandenong 61–59.