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The fifth biggest professional sports league is Major League Soccer (MLS), which will have 30 teams when the 2025 season begins. While soccer is very popular globally, it had struggled to become established in Canada and the United States with several professional leagues starting and folding before MLS was founded in 1996.
The first major-league sports team in Texas was also an NFL franchise—the Dallas Texans, which joined the league in 1952. The team's first game, however, proved to be a harbinger for the season—a 24–6 loss in front of fewer than 18,000 fans in the then-75,000-seat Cotton Bowl. Home attendance continued to slump, dropping to 10,000 for a ...
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The Athletes Unlimited Softball League is a women's fastpitch softball league with four, currently geographically-neutral teams, that'll be assigned home grounds in its 2026 season. As of its 2025 season , the average salary for a player will be $40,000–45,000, with salaries up to $75,000 achievable through bonus payments .
The following list contains all metropolitan 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) and the big six leagues (B6), and the city's teams in the National Football League (NFL), [2] Major League Baseball (MLB), [3] the National Basketball ...
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).
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If the American Basketball Association (1967–1976) were considered a major professional sports league, three more cities would be former four-sport metropolises. Pittsburgh —home to the MLB Pirates , the NFL Steelers , and the NHL Penguins —also hosted the ABA's Pittsburgh Condors , originally called the Pipers, in 1967 and from 1969 ...