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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).
The first Major League Baseball team in Canada was the Montreal Expos, who began play in 1969. In 2005, they moved to Washington, D.C., and became the Washington Nationals. The Toronto Blue Jays, who began play in 1977, became the first team outside the United States to win the World Series in 1992 and 1993.
Hockey remains much more popular in the northern states of the U.S. closer to Canada, such as the Upper Midwest (8 NHL teams), New England and the New York to Washington area (5 NHL teams), than in the rest of the United States. The NHL has more Canadian teams (seven) than MLB, MLS, the NBA, and the NFL combined (five).
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.
MLB team(s) NBA team(s) NFL team(s) NHL team(s) Total teams Greater Boston: Massachusetts: 10 1960 Boston Red Sox: Boston Celtics: New England Patriots (Foxborough, Massachusetts) Boston Bruins: 4 Chicago metropolitan area: Illinois: 3 1966 Chicago Cubs Chicago White Sox: Chicago Bulls: Chicago Bears: Chicago Blackhawks: 5 Dallas–Fort Worth ...
English: Map of Cities in the United States and Canada with at least one team in the MLB, MLS, NBA, NFL or NHL, August 2021 Deutsch: Karte der Städte in den USA und Kanada, in denen mindestens eine Mannschaft in der MLB , MLS , NBA , NFL oder NHL spielt, Stand: August 2021
GOBankingRates used Forbes’ data to find the (1) notable owners, (2) 2020 team value, (3) purchase price and (4) year of purchase for every team in all three leagues analyzed.
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 individual franchises.