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View of a night-time baseball game at Yankee Stadium between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. This is a list of professional and semi-professional sports teams based in the New York metropolitan area, including from New York City, Long Island, Lower Hudson Valley, Northern and Central New Jersey, and parts of Western Connecticut.
Numerous college sports teams play in the State of New York at all levels; the Division III State University of New York Athletic Conference and Empire 8 consist almost entirely of New York–based teams. The state of New York hosted the Olympic Winter Games in 1932 and 1980 in Lake Placid.
New York got a professional rugby team in 2019 with Rugby United New York (RUNY) at MCU Park as a member of Major League Rugby. RUNY was formed by James Kennedy and former WWE wrestler, John Layfield. New York and USA Rugby veteran Mike Tolkin was named head coach after previously coaching the USA national side and the local club side NYAC.
New York City has won the most professional sports championships of any American city. This is a list of cities in the United States that field or have fielded teams in North American men's professional sports leagues, showing the number of league championships each city has won. The championships won are recorded for the cities only, not the ...
Sports in New York's Capital District are very popular, and there is a rich history of professional teams and college athletics. The "major league" sport of the region is thoroughbred horse racing at the Saratoga Race Course , which has been held annually since 1863 with only a few breaks.
The New York Sirens are a professional ice hockey team based in the New York metropolitan area that competes in the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL). They are one of the six charter franchises of the league. The team plays its home games at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
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).
Sports Illustrated Stadium is New York metropolitan area's first professional soccer-specific stadium in the modern era of American soccer. The sport of soccer has a long history in New York City, beginning in the 1910s with the first iteration of the American Soccer League.