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Canada has professional sports teams in eight sports across twenty leagues. Canadian teams compete in top-level American and Canadian-based leagues, including three of the four major professional sports leagues. Canada also has minor league teams competing in American and Canadian-based basketball, hockey, soccer, and baseball leagues.
Professional women's hockey has seen starts and stops. The Canadian Women's Hockey League did not pay salaries, but it did pay stipends and bonuses. [1] It folded in 2019. In 2020, the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL), the first women's league to pay salaries, expanded into Canada [2] —the Toronto Six were joined in 2022 by the Montreal Force as Canadian franchises.
Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada; Major professional sports teams in the United States and Canada; List of U.S. and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports teams; Prominent women's sports leagues in the United States and Canada; List of top level minor league sports teams in the United States by city
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
List of defunct professional sports leagues; List of developmental and minor sports leagues; Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada; List of professional sports teams in the United States and Canada; List of U.S. and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports teams; National Collegiate Athletic Association ...
Rugby football in Canada had its origins in the early 1860s, and over time, a unique code of football known as Canadian football developed. Both the Canadian Football League (CFL), the sport's top professional league, and Football Canada, the governing body for amateur play, trace their roots to 1882 and the founding of the Canadian Rugby Football Union (later reorganized as the Canadian Rugby ...
The major professional sports leagues, or simply major leagues, in the United States and Canada are the highest professional competitions of team sports in the two countries. Although individual sports such as golf, mixed martial arts, tennis, and auto racing are also very popular, the term is usually limited to team sports.
Women's sports organizations in Canada (3 C) Pages in category "Sports organizations of Canada" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.