Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lackluster CFL television ratings in the United States during the 1982 NFL strike seemed to bolster this argument. A proposal by Bill Tatham to have his Arizona Outlaws and possibly other teams of the moribund United States Football League enter the CFL after the league suspended operations saw little interest in both leagues. [1]
Rank League Sport Country(ies) Season Tier Level Teams [a] Matches / Games / Events Rev. (€ mil) Rev. / team (€ mil) Rev. / match (€ thousands) Ref. 1 National Football League (NFL) American football United States: 2023: 1: 32: 285: 19,299 [b] 603: 67,716 [1] 2 National Basketball Association (NBA) Basketball United States Canada ...
Grey Cup Canadian Football Championships since 1909. Minor: Liga de Fútbol Americano Profesional (LFA), 2016–2020; 2022– United Football League (UFL), 2024– Formed from merger of XFL (2020) and United States Football League (2022)
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). Est. represents the ...
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.
Major League Soccer is the top-level men's professional soccer league in the United States. As of the league's 2025 season, MLS has 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada. The league began play in 1996, its creation a requirement by FIFA for awarding the United States the right to host the 1994 World Cup.
Major League Soccer in the United States was founded in 1993, and has been active since 1996. Of the 12 metro areas with all Big Four teams, only Detroit lacks an MLS team. Media/television market rankings are based on the official government designation from the Code of Federal Regulations. [8]
Major League Soccer is in the first tier of the United States men's soccer league system. It currently consists 29 teams: nine in the Southern United States, seven in the Western United States, six in the midwestern United States, four in the northeastern United States, two in Eastern Canada, and one in Western Canada.