Major professional sports teams of the United States and Canada
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This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Canadian Football League (CFL),
Est. represents the first year the team played in its current media market. For brevity, only the most recent names for teams that have had multiple nicknames in their current media market are listed. Future expansion teams whose inaugural seasons are confirmed are also included in this list.
- ^ The Hurricanes did not play in Raleigh until 1999, when the venue now known as PNC Arena opened. The team, as planned, played its first two North Carolina seasons in Greensboro.
- ^ The Panthers played their inaugural 1995 season on the campus of Clemson University in South Carolina while the venue now known as Bank of America Stadium was being completed in Charlotte.
- ^ The team did not play in Nashville until 1998. When relocating the franchise from Houston to Nashville, owner Bud Adams originally planned for the team to play both the 1997 and 1998 seasons in Memphis as the Tennessee Oilers during the construction of what is now known as Nissan Stadium. Low attendance led Adams to move the team to Nashville a year earlier than planned, playing in Vanderbilt Stadium until the new venue was completed for the 1999 season.
See also
[edit]- Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada
- List of professional sports leagues
- List of defunct sports leagues
- List of American and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises
- List of professional sports teams in the United States and Canada
- List of top level minor league sports teams in the United States by city
- List of soccer clubs in the United States by city
References
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The NHL becomes the first of the four major North American professional sports leagues to put a team in Las Vegas.
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