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The Sacramento Kings of the NBA (shown playing at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento) are the state capital’s only major professional sports team. There are many professional sports teams based in California, participating in sports such as baseball, American football, soccer, basketball, ice hockey, lacrosse, and ultimate.
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 National Football League (NFL) has had a long and complicated history in Los Angeles, the second-largest media market in the United States. Los Angeles became the first city on the West Coast to host an NFL team when the Cleveland Rams relocated to Los Angeles in 1946; they played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1946 until 1979.
The NFL uses several other stadiums on a regular basis in addition to the teams' designated regular home sites. In England, two London venues – Wembley Stadium and from 2016 to 2018 the Twickenham Stadium then the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – are contracted to host a combined four games per season, as part of the NFL International Series ...
Prior to the NFL, Los Angeles had multiple teams in the American Football League. The Los Angeles Wildcats , also called "Wilson Wildcats", were a traveling team for the first AFL in 1926. The Los Angeles Bulldogs were members of AFL II (1937) and a minor AFL (1939) before joining the Pacific Coast Professional Football League.
According to USA TODAY Sports research, only 269 men have worked as a full-time head coach for an NFL team since 1970, the first season after the NFL-AFL merger. ... California, Ohio or Pennsylvania.
The NFL dominates the list of the 50 most valuable sports franchises in the world, with 29 of the 32 teams earning their way onto Forbes' 2024 list.
American football teams in the San Francisco Bay Area (11 C, 6 P) College football teams in California (43 C, 1 P) Defunct American football teams in California (49 C, 31 P)