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This is a list of professional sports leagues by revenue.Individual sports are not included. The "Season" column refers to the sports league season for which financial data is available and referenced, which is usually not the most recently completed season of competition.
The NHL is the fifth-highest grossing professional sport league in the world by revenue, after the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the Premier League (PL). [10] The league's headquarters have been in Manhattan since 1989, when the head office moved from Montreal. [11]
The Canadian Football League (CFL), a much smaller league (9 teams), was founded in 1958 and is popular in Canada. All six of these leagues draw 15,000 or more fans in attendance per game on average as of 2015. This list includes a ranking by teams in the Big Four (B4) and a separate ranking including MLS and CFL teams called the Big Six (B6).
Today, the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada are Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL) and the National Hockey League (NHL). [1] These four leagues are also commonly referred to as the Big Four. Each is the richest professional club competition ...
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).
North American 3 Hockey League (1970) – formerly the Central States Hockey League; Independent junior leagues. British Columbia Hockey League (1961) Can-Am Junior Hockey League (2022) Eastern Hockey League (EHL and EHL Premier) (2013) Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League (2006) Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League (1970) National Junior Hockey ...
A partial view of the Green Monster at Fenway Park, with standings for the American League East division at the end of the 2007 Major League Baseball season. In sports, standings, rankings, or league tables group teams of a particular league, conference, or division in a chart based on how well each is doing in a particular season of a sports league or competition.
The American Hockey League (AHL) is a 32-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL). [38] Since the 2010–11 season, every team in the league has an affiliation agreement with an NHL team. Twenty-six AHL teams are located in the ...