List of U.S. cities by number of professional sports championships

This is a list of cities in the United States that field teams in North American professional sports leagues, showing the number of league championships each city has won. The "four major leagues" comprise Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League.

Table

Rank City MLB champions NBA champions NFL champions NHL champions 4 major leagues champions overall MLS champions AFL champions MLL champions NLL champions
1 New York 35 2 7 11 55 0 - - -
2 Boston 8 17 3 6 34 0 - - -
3 Chicago 5 6 8 4 23 1 - - -
4 Detroit 4 3 4 11 22 0 - - -
5 Los Angeles 6 11 2 1 20 2 - - -
6 Philadelphia 7 4 3 2 16 0 - - -
7 Pittsburgh 5 - 6 3 14 0 - - -
8 Green Bay - - 13 - 13 0 - - -
- San Francisco Bay Area 5 1 7 0 13 2 3 - -
- St. Louis 11 1 1 0 13 0 - - -
11 Baltimore 3 1 4 - 8 0 - - -
12 Cleveland 2 0 5 - 7 0 - - -
- Dallas 0 1 5 1 7 0 - - -
- Minneapolis-Saint Paul 2 5 0 0 7 0 - - -
- Washington, D.C. 1 1 5 0 7 4 - - -
16 Cincinnati 5 - 0 - 5 0 - - -
- Miami 2 1 2 0 5 0 - - -
18 Denver 0 0 2 2 4 1 2 - 1
- Houston 0 2 2* - 4 2 - - -
- San Antonio - 4 - - 4 0 - - -
20 Buffalo - - 2* 0 2 - 0 0 4
- Kansas City 1 - 1 - 2 1 - - -
- Milwaukee 1 1 0 0 2 0 - - -
- Tampa 0 0 1 1 2 0 - - -
24 Atlanta 1 0 0 0 1 0 - - -
- Indianapolis - 0 1 - 1 0 - - -
- New Orleans - 0 1 - 1 0 - - -
- Phoenix 1 0 0 0 1 0 - - -
- Portland - 1 - - 1 0 - - -
- Raleigh 0 0 0 1 1 0 - - -
- Rochester 0 1 0 - 1 - - 1 2
- Seattle 0 1 0 0 1 0 - - -
- Syracuse - 1 - - 1 0 - - -
Cities below have not yet won championships in the four major leagues.
Columbus - - - 0 0 1 0 0 0
Salt Lake City - - - - 0 1 0 0 0
Orlando - 0 - - 0 0 2 0 0
Albany - - - - 0 0 1 0 0
Grand Rapids - - - - 0 0 1 0 0
Spokane - - - - 0 0 1 0 0
Sacramento - - - - 0 0 0 0 0

† — Does not include the AFL or NFL Championships won during the same seasons that the AFL–NFL Super Bowl was played prior to the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger

* — pre-Super Bowl AFL championships

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