List of U.S. cities by number of professional sports championships
This is a list of cities in the United States that field or have fielded teams in North American men's professional sports leagues, showing the number of league championships each city has won. The championships won are recorded for the cities only, not the individual franchises. When a team relocates to a new city, the number of championships won in the prior city remain with that city.
Championships counted are only from the dominant league or leagues in each of the five major North American team sports — football, baseball, basketball, ice hockey and soccer.
Football championships include All-America Football Conference, American Football League and National Football League champions up to the first Super Bowl season, and then only Super Bowl champions since. Baseball championships include champions from the 1914 and 1915 Federal League ; American League and National League champions from the start of baseball's modern era — defined as 1893 by the Society for American Baseball Research — up to the first modern World Series season ; the 1903 World Series champion; the American League and National League champions in 1904 ; and then only World Series champions since. Basketball championships include those from the National Basketball Association; its forerunner, the Basketball Association of America; and the American Basketball Association. Ice hockey championships include World Hockey Association champions and all teams who won the Stanley Cup since the end of the Challenge Cup era. Soccer championships are of the outdoor variety only and include those from the North American Soccer League ; its forerunners, the United Soccer Association and National Professional Soccer League; and Major League Soccer.
Cities that can claim no titles have been excluded from these rankings unless they are currently represented in at least one of the five major leagues, in which case they have a zero total.
Table
Current through Super Bowl LIVRank | City | modern major baseball | NBA/ABA | AAFC/NFL/AFL | Stanley Cup/WHA | MLS/NASL | 5 Major Sports Championships |
1 | New York City, Long Island and East Rutherford, New Jersey | 38 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 64 |
2 | Boston/Foxborough/Chestnut Hill/Quincy/Lynn/New Bedford, Massachusetts/Pawtucket, Rhode Island | 14 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 44 |
3 | Chicago/Naperville/Bridgeview | 8 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 34 |
4 | Los Angeles/Carson/Monterey Park/Pasadena/Torrance/Anaheim | 6 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 29 |
5 | Detroit/Pontiac | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 22 |
6 | San Francisco Bay Area | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 22 |
7 | Philadelphia/Chester | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 20 |
8 | Pittsburgh | 7 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 19 |
9 | St. Louis | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 |
10 | Washington, D.C./Landover, Maryland/Fairfax, Virginia | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
10 | Green Bay | - | - | 13 | - | - | 13 |
10 | Cleveland | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
13 | Baltimore | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
14 | Dallas/Arlington/Frisco/Irving/University Park/Southlake | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
14 | Houston | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
16 | Minneapolis/St.Paul/Bloomington | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
16 | Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
16 | Miami/Sunrise/Ft. Lauderdale | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
19 | Denver/Commerce City/Lakewood | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
20 | San Antonio | - | 5 | - | - | 0 | 5 |
20 | Cincinnati | 5 | - | 0 | - | 0 | 5 |
20 | Indianapolis | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | - | 5 |
20 | Seattle | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
24 | Atlanta/Jonesboro | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
24 | Newark/Harrison | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | - | 3 |
24 | Tampa/St. Petersburg | 0 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
27 | Canton | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 |
27 | Milwaukee | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 2 |
27 | Portland | - | 1 | - | 0 | 1 | 2 |
27 | Rochester | - | 1 | 0 | - | 1 | 2 |
27 | Salt Lake City/Sandy | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
27 | Buffalo/Orchard Park | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | 2 |
33 | Akron | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
33 | New Orleans | - | 0 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
33 | Phoenix/Glendale | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 1 |
33 | Providence | - | 0 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
33 | Raleigh | - | 0 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
33 | Syracuse | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
33 | Columbus | - | - | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
33 | Tulsa | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
33 | Louisville | - | 1 | 0 | - | - | 1 |
NR | Charlotte | - | 0 | 0 | - | - | 0 |
NR | Jacksonville | - | - | 0 | - | 0 | 0 |
NR | Memphis | - | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 |
NR | San Diego | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NR | Nashville | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NR | Oklahoma City | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 |
NR | Orlando | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 |
NR | Sacramento | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 |
NR | Las Vegas/Henderson/Paradise/Whitney | - | - | 0 | 0 | - | 0 |