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A sports league is a group of individual athletes, sports teams or clubs who form a league to compete against each other and gain points in a specific sport.At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete periodically, at its most complex, it can be an international professional league making large amounts of money and involving dozens ...
Professional sports leagues are organized in numerous ways. The two most significant types are one that developed in Europe, characterized by a tiered structure using promotion and relegation in order to determine participation in a hierarchy of leagues or divisions, and a North American originated model characterized by its use of franchises, closed memberships, and minor leagues.
A sports league is a professional body that governs the competition of its teams. [clarification needed] They make the rules for competition and behavior and disciplines its members as necessary. This is done through a structure that varies by league.
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). [37] 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 ...
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).
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league composed of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).
Although they recently suffered a three-game skid, the Commanders are 8-5 on the year, despite some preseason sentiment that they would be among the worst teams in the league after finishing 4-13 ...
American League President and founder Ban Johnson, in center, surrounded by the portraits of the league's eight teams in 1907.. Originally a minor league known as the Western League, which existed from 1885 to 1899 with teams in mostly Great Lakes states, the league changed its name to the American League for the 1900 season and the next year developed into a second major league as a ...