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In addition to the major sports leagues, there are several other highest-level professional sports leagues in the United States. These leagues usually lack TV contracts for popular network TV or mainstream cable channels, draw more modest attendance, and generally pay significantly lower salaries than the major sports leagues.
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 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.
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).
This list attempts to show those sports leagues for which all players and teams are paid to play. In other words, these players can be considered to play their chosen sport as their profession . Some leagues do not pay well enough to allow players to use them as their primary or only source of income, but because the players are paid, it is ...
There are 12 United States cities (along with their corresponding metropolitan areas) with teams competing in each of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, and the National Hockey League.
Cricket leagues in the United States (2 C, 11 P) Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada (6 C, 4 P) Defunct professional sports leagues in the United States (7 C, 120 P)
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.