Sports in Missouri
Missouri hosts a number of sports teams. Missouri is home to six major league professional sports teams — 3 in the St. Louis metro area, and three in the Kansas City metro area.
Missouri hosted the 1904 Summer Olympics at St. Louis, the first time the games were hosted in the United States.
The St. Louis Cardinals playing at Busch Stadium.
Major league sports teams
- MLB: Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals
- NFL: Kansas City Chiefs and St. Louis Rams
- NHL: St. Louis Blues
- MLS: Sporting Kansas City
Minor leagues
- World Team Tennis: Springfield Lasers
Baseball
- Springfield Cardinals (Class AA, Texas League)
- River City Rascals (O'Fallon) (Independent, Frontier League)
- Chillicothe Mudcats (Independent, M.I.N.K. League)
- Excelsior Springs Cougars (Independent, M.I.N.K. League)
- Farmington Firebirds (Independent, KIT League)
- Joplin Outlaws (Independent, M.I.N.K. League)
- Marysville Magpies (Independent, Jayhawk League)
- Nevada Griffins (Independent, M.I.N.K. League)
- Ozark Generals (Independent, M.I.N.K. League)
- St. Joseph Mustangs (Independent, M.I.N.K. League)
- Sedalia Bombers (Independent, M.I.N.K. League)
- St. Louis Tribe (Independent, MSBL National League)
- Sikeston Bulls (Independent, KIT League)
- Hannibal Cavemen (Prospect League) Kansas City T-bones (Kansas City)
Ice Hockey
Former professional teams
- National Football League:
- St. Louis Cardinals (moved from Chicago in 1960; moved to Tempe, Arizona in 1988 and are now the Arizona Cardinals)
- St. Louis All Stars (active in 1923 only)
- Kansas City (NFL) (Blues/Cowboys) (active 1924–1926, folded)
- St. Louis Gunners (independent team, joined the NFL for the last three weeks of the 1934 season and folded thereafter)
- National Hockey League:
- Kansas City Scouts (1974 expansion team, moved to Denver, Colorado in 1976 and became the Colorado Rockies, and would move again to Newark, New Jersey; now called the New Jersey Devils)
- St. Louis Eagles (1934 relocation of the original Ottawa Senators, folded after the 1934–35 season)
- Women's Professional Soccer:
- Saint Louis Athletica (franchise folded in June 2010)
Baseball
- Major League Baseball (American League):
- St. Louis Browns (moved from Milwaukee in 1902; moved to Baltimore, Maryland after the 1953 season and are now the Baltimore Orioles)
- Kansas City Athletics (moved from Philadelphia in 1955; moved to Oakland, California after the 1967 season and are now the Oakland Athletics)
- Negro National League:
- Kansas City Monarchs (Charter member of Negro National League, 1920. Played in Kansas City, MO, until being disbanded in 1965 after sending more players to Major League Baseball than any other Negro League team.)
Basketball
- National Basketball Association:
- St. Louis Bombers (charter BAA franchise in 1946, joined the NBA when it formed in 1949; ceased operations in 1950)
- St. Louis Hawks (moved from Milwaukee in 1955; moved to Atlanta in 1968 and are now the Atlanta Hawks)
- Kansas City Kings (moved from Cincinnati in 1972; moved to Sacramento in 1985 and are now the Sacramento Kings; prior to locating in Kansas City, they were known as the Cincinnati Royals)
- American Basketball Association
- Spirits of St. Louis, (franchise played its home games in St. Louis from 1974 through 1976; franchise folded when the ABA merged with the NBA):
- Continental Basketball Association:
- Teams in Kansas City and St. Louis