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Los Angeles had teams from all four major sports play within its city limits from 2016, when the NFL's Rams moved to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, until 2020, when they moved into a new stadium in Inglewood. Los Angeles now has three major sports teams playing within city limits: the Lakers, Dodgers, and Kings.
The following list contains all urban areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the six major leagues. The number of teams in the Big Four leagues (B4) (NFL, [2] MLB, [3] NBA, [4] and NHL [5]) and the Big Six leagues (B6) (aforementioned leagues plus MLS [6] and CFL) [7] are included in the table below.
All four major sports leagues have launched a network of their own—NBA TV in the U.S. in 1999 and in Canada in 2001, the NFL Network in 2003, the NHL Network in Canada in 2001 and in the U.S. in 2007, and the MLB Network in 2009. All networks remain in operation today except for the Canadian NHL Network, which was shut down shortly before the ...
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), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
More teams are set to start play in the coming years, but several MLS affiliates will leave after the 2022 season for MLS Next Pro. Major League Soccer pulled most of its lower-level affiliates from the USL system in the early 2020s in preparation for MLS Next Pro, a new third-level league that launched in 2022. Of the 21 teams playing in the ...
Major League Rugby is a men's rugby union league with twelve teams: six in the south, four in the west each, and one in the midwest and northeast each. As of its 2020 season , the average salary for a player was $10,000–$25,000.
When a team relocates to a new city, the number of championships won in the prior city remain with that city. Championships counted are only from the top-tier/dominant league or leagues in each of the four major North American team sports — American football, baseball, basketball, and ice hockey.
Washington, D.C. is one of 13 cities in the United States with teams from the primary four major professional men's sports and is home to two major professional women's teams. [65] The Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball are the most popular sports team in the District, as of 2019. [66] They play at Nationals Park, which opened in 2008.