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The A's plan to move from Oakland to Las Vegas would leave the city with no major league sports teams. [4]) If the American Basketball Association (1967–1976) were considered a major professional sports league, three more cities would be former four-sport metropolises.
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.
The championships won are recorded for the cities only, not the individual franchises. 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 ...
The most recent market to receive a new "Big Four" team is Salt Lake City, Utah, which saw the NHL's Utah Hockey Club make their debut for the 2024-25 season. The largest urban area without a team in one of the big four leagues is the 30th-ranked Austin region, though it has a Major League Soccer team—Austin FC.
In the history of championships in major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada (which include the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL), a city/metropolitan area has been home to multiple championships in a season 19 times, most recently in 2020 when the Tampa Bay Lightning won the 2020 Stanley Cup and Tampa Bay Buccaneers won Super Bowl LV.
This is a list of cities in the United States and Canada that field or have fielded teams in the five North American major professional sports leagues, showing the number of league championships each city has won. The championships won are recorded for the cities only, not the individual franchises.
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. [8]
For 2023, four cities hosted regular-season games, each hosting two teams. The USFL and XFL merged after their 2023 seasons to form the current United Football League. The merged league features teams from four former XFL markets, three former USFL markets, and one market that had teams in both leagues.