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Ohio is home to major professional sports teams in baseball, basketball, football, hockey, volleyball, and soccer.The state's major professional sporting teams include: Cincinnati Reds (Major League Baseball), [1] Cleveland Guardians (Major League Baseball), [2] Cincinnati Bengals (National Football League), [3] Cleveland Browns (National Football League), [3] Cleveland Cavaliers (National ...
No Ohio city can claim five-sport (or four-sport) status, but the state itself can via Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus sports teams with the Columbus Crew and FC Cincinnati. The debut of MLS's Toronto FC in 2007 gave Toronto five major professional sports teams, although its football team plays in the Canadian Football League.
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.
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.
Washington, D.C. has four major professional men's sports teams and two major professional women's teams. The Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball are the most popular sports team in the District, as of 2019. [65] They play at Nationals Park, which opened in 2008.
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).
Major leagues tend to place franchises only in the largest, most populated metropolitan areas. [according to whom?] Most major league teams are in metropolitan areas having populations of more than 2 million. All but 12 continental U.S. metropolitan areas with a population of more than 1 million host at least one major sports franchise.
Cleveland facilities have hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game six times, the NBA All-Star Game three times, and the United States Figure Skating Championships four times. The city hosted the Gravity Games, an extreme sports series, from 2002 to 2004, and the Dew Action Sports Tour Right Guard Open in 2007.