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The market for professional sports in the United States is about $69 billion, roughly 50% larger than that of all of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa combined. [3] All these leagues enjoy wide-ranging domestic media coverage and, except for Major League Soccer, all are considered the preeminent leagues in their respective sports in the world.
MLS Next Pro is in the third tier of the United States men's soccer league system. It currently consists 29 teams: ten in the Southern United States, seven in the Western United States, six in the Midwestern United States, four in the Northeastern United States, and one each in Eastern and Western Canada.
The fifth biggest professional sports league is Major League Soccer (MLS), which will have 30 teams when the 2025 season begins. While soccer is very popular globally, it had struggled to become established in Canada and the United States with several professional leagues starting and folding before MLS was founded in 1996.
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), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
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 ...
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.
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.
State individual sport Outrigger canoe paddling (Heihei waŹ»a) [7] 1986 State team sport Maryland: Jousting [8] 1962 State sport Lacrosse [9] 2004 State team sport Massachusetts: Basketball [10] [11] 2006 Sport of the Commonwealth Volleyball [12] [13] 2014 Recreational and team sport of the Commonwealth Michigan: American Football [14] 1972 ...