Sports in Missouri
Missouri hosts a number of sports teams. Missouri is home to five major league professional sports teams — two in the St. Louis metropolitan area, and three in the Kansas City metropolitan 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
| Club | Sport | League |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Chiefs | American Football | National Football League |
| Kansas City Royals | Baseball | Major League Baseball |
| Sporting Kansas City* | Soccer | Major League Soccer |
| St. Louis Blues | Ice hockey | National Hockey League |
| St. Louis Cardinals | Baseball | Major League Baseball |
- * — Team represents a location in the state but play their home games outside the state boundaries.
Minor leagues
| Club | Sport | League |
|---|---|---|
| FC Kansas City | Women's Soccer | National Women's Soccer League[lower-alpha 1] |
| Kansas City Blues | Rugby | USA Rugby Division 1 |
| Kansas City Comets | Indoor Soccer | Major Arena Soccer League |
| Kansas City Mavericks | Ice hockey | ECHL |
| Kansas City Power | Australian Rules Football | USAFL |
| Kansas City Rogues | Rugby | USA Rugby Division 3 |
| Kansas City Storm | American Football - Women | United Women's Football Association |
| River City Rascals | Baseball | Frontier League |
| Springfield Cardinals | Baseball | Texas League |
| Springfield Lasers | Tennis | World TeamTennis |
| Saint Louis FC | Soccer | United Soccer League |
| Swope Park Rangers[lower-alpha 2] | Soccer | United Soccer League |
- ↑ The NWSL is not a minor league in a competitive sense, as it is the top level of U.S. women's soccer. However, women's club soccer does not reach a level of interest comparable to that of any traditional men's major league.
- ↑ Unlike their parent club of Sporting Kansas City, the Rangers play on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Former teams
Teams which are no longer in Missouri
| Club | Sport | League |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Athletics (moved from Philadelphia in 1955; moved to Oakland, California after the 1967 season and are now the Oakland Athletics) | Baseball | Major League Baseball |
| 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) | Basketball | National Basketball Association |
| 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) | Ice Hockey | National Hockey League |
| Sporting Kansas City (moved home games to Kansas City, Kansas in 2008; still have front office and practice facilities in Kansas City, Missouri) | Soccer | Major League Soccer |
| St. Louis Browns (moved from Milwaukee in 1902; moved to Baltimore, Maryland after the 1953 season and are now the Baltimore Orioles) | Baseball | Major League Baseball |
| St. Louis Cardinals (moved from Chicago in 1960; moved to Tempe, Arizona in 1988 as the Phoenix Cardinals and now play in Glendale, Arizona as the Arizona Cardinals) | American Football | National Football League |
| St. Louis Hawks (moved from Milwaukee in 1955; moved to Atlanta in 1968 and became the Atlanta Hawks) | Basketball | National Basketball Association |
| St. Louis Rams (moved from Anaheim, California in 1995; moved back to Los Angeles in 2016 and resumed the team's former identity of Los Angeles Rams) | American Football | National Football League |
Defunct
| Club | Sport | League |
|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Blues/Cowboys (active 1924–1926, folded) | American Football | National Football 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.) | Baseball | Negro National League |
| Kansas City Sizzlers | Basketball | Continental Basketball Association |
| Saint Louis Athletica (franchise folded in June 2010) | Women's Soccer | Women's Professional Soccer |
| 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) | Basketball | American Basketball Association |
| St. Charles Chill (folded in 2014 after one season) | Ice Hockey | Central Hockey League |
| St. Louis All Stars (active in 1923 only) | American Football | National Football League |
| St. Louis Bombers (charter BAA franchise in 1946, joined the NBA when it formed in 1949; ceased operations in 1950) | Basketball | National Basketball Association |
| St. Louis Eagles (1934 relocation of the original Ottawa Senators, folded after the 1934–35 season) | Ice Hockey | National Hockey League |
| St. Louis Gunners (independent team, joined the NFL for the last three weeks of the 1934 season and folded thereafter) | American Football | National Football League |
See also
References
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