Major League Lacrosse
Major League Lacrosse is a men's field lacrosse league consisting of six active teams in the United States. The league's inaugural season was in 2001, making MLL the oldest professional field lacrosse league in North America. Teams have played anywhere from ten to 16 games in a summertime regular season, with a four-team playoff for the championship trophy, the Steinfeld Trophy, named after founder Jake Steinfeld. League attendance peaked at 6,417 in 2011 and the 2019 average was 4,587.
The league is made up of the Chesapeake Bayhawks and New York Lizards, who competed in the first three championship games, with the Lizards winning two. The Philadelphia Barrage returned to the league in 2020 after an 11-seven hiatus. After moving from Bridgeport to Philadelphia, the Barrage won three championships in four years from 2004 to 2007. The Boston Cannons, the last of the six charter franchises to remain in its original market with its original name, won its first championship in 2011. For much of the league's history, the Denver Outlaws have been the only team west of the Mississippi River, being part of the league's ambitious westward expansion in 2006. Being owned by the Pat Bowlen family and the Denver Broncos, the Outlaws have been successful from the start, missing the postseason only once in 14 seasons, while claiming three championships in nine appearances. The Connecticut Hammerheads are the league's truly youngest franchise, and were set to play at Rafferty Stadium near Bridgeport in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic forced a shortened, quarantined season.
The current champion is the Boston Cannons, who defeated the Denver Outlaws at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland following a COVID-19-shortened 2020 season.
History
Founding (2001–2005)
Major League Lacrosse was founded in 1999 by Jake Steinfeld, Dave Morrow and Tim Robertson. Steinfeld is the creator of the Body By Jake line of exercise equipment and videos. Morrow is a former All-American lacrosse player at Princeton and the president of Warrior Sports. Tim Robertson is the son of televangelist Pat Robertson and the former CEO of The Family Channel.Steinfeld was a former lacrosse player at Cortland State, read an article about Dave Morrow. After reading the article, Steinfeld couldn't believe that with the excitement the sport of lacrosse has, there was not a professional outdoor league. Steinfeld said, "For years, America's top collegiate lacrosse players have not had the opportunity to play in a professional outdoor league at the conclusion of their collegiate careers. Those days are over with the creation of Major League Lacrosse."
The league held two separate drafts to stock the six teams for the 2001 season. The first draft took place in 2000 for post-collegiate players. A second draft was held on June 1, 2001, in Baltimore, Maryland, for players whose college eligibility had expired in 2001. Ryan Mollett of Princeton was selected first overall by the Rochester Rattlers. In addition, each team was assigned three franchise players to each team before the initial draft.
MLL began play in 2001 with six teams in the northeastern U.S. split into two divisions. The American Division included teams in Boston, Bridgeport, Connecticut, and on Long Island; the National Division included teams in Baltimore, New Jersey, and Rochester. All teams were owned by the league, which assigned three franchise players to each team before the initial draft.
The first MLL game took place on June 7, 2001, with the Baltimore Bayhawks defeating the Long Island Lizards 16–13 at Homewood field in Baltimore, Maryland. Chris Turner scored the first goal in MLL history.
The MLL played a 14-game regular season its first two years, then the schedule was cut to 12 games. After the first year, the league's playoff format had the top teams in each division advancing to the semifinals, with two wild card playoff spots going to the teams with the next-best records regardless of division.
The first MLL Championship Game saw the Long Island Lizards beat the Baltimore Bayhawks 15–11 in September 2001. The game was played at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Paul Gait was named the game's MVP.
Four out of the first five championship games were between the Long Island Lizards and the Baltimore Bayhawks. The Lizards won titles in 2001 and 2003, while the Bayhawks won in 2002 and 2005. The recently relocated Philadelphia Barrage beat the Boston Cannons 13-11 in 2004's final.
In 2003, New Balance became a "founding member" and major sponsor of MLL. New Balance founder and CEO, Jim Davis got very involved in the operation of the league, including providing financial support. Davis still owns the Dallas Rattlers.
In 2005, Andrew Goldstein became the first American male team-sport professional athlete to be openly gay during his playing career. Goldstein played goalie for the Long Island Lizards from 2005 to 2007, although he only appeared in two games in 2006.
Expansion and contraction (2006–2011)
MLL added four teams for the 2006 season, bringing the league's number of teams up to ten. The expansion markets were Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and San Francisco, extending the league across the country and into top media markets. MLL combined the original six teams into the Eastern Conference and put the new teams into the Western Conference.The Los Angeles Riptide were owned by the Anschutz Entertainment Group and played its home games at the Home Depot Center. Denver Broncos' owner Pat Bowlen brought the Denver Outlaws to an NFL stadium, Mile High. The other new franchises were the Chicago Machine and the San Francisco Dragons.
Despite winning championships in 2006 and 2007, Philadelphia didn't attract more than 2,500 fans to their games. So in 2008, the Barrage tested out new markets by playing all of its "home" matches in five other cities: Cary, North Carolina; Hillsboro, Oregon; Irving, Texas; St. Louis; and Virginia Beach. In addition, the Barrage's "home game" against the Cannons was played in Boston.
At the end of the 2008 season, four teams - Los Angeles, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and San Francisco - folded due to financial problems. Several of these teams suffered from poor attendance, San Francisco drew 2,808 per game and only 1,920 in New Jersey. This contraction forced the remaining six teams to form one conference.
The Rochester Rattlers won the 2008 Steinfeld Cup but like the Barrage, struggled at the gate. At the start of the 2009 season, a new ownership group in Toronto bought the rights to the Rochester franchise. The Toronto Nationals inherited the staff and players of the team, but the Rattlers' name and team colors were left in Rochester for the possibility of a future team. That same group of players went on to win another championship in 2009 playing for a different team in a different country.
The Chicago Machine played the entire 2010 season as a traveling team testing expansion markets for the league, before deciding that the franchise would be moving to Rochester and adopting the Rattlers name in 2011.
In 2010, the Bayhawks and Lizards met for the fifth time in the championship game. The Bayhawks prevailed 13–9, almost the same score as when they beat Long Island 15–9 five years earlier. The newly renamed Chesapeake Bayhawks went on to win two more championships in the next three years, in 2012 and 2013. Their five Steinfeld Cup trophies are the most in MLL history.
The league's attendance peaked at 6,417 per game in the 2011 season. The individual franchises had a wide range of local support. Denver lead the league in attendance, drawing 12,331 fans per game in 2011, while the relocated Hamilton Nationals had 1,214 people per game, one-tenth of Denver's attendance.
LXM Pro Tour
In late 2009, Kyle Harrison, Scott Hochstadt, Craig Hochstadt, Xander Ritz, and Max Ritz formed the LXM Pro Tour. The tour would feature two teams playing games across the country at special events involving the LXM Pro game and youth activities. The tour competed for players with the MLL as the more established league would not let players under contract play in other professional lacrosse events.On February 13, 2014, MLL announced a partnership with the LXM Pro Tour, a week after the league announced a new equipment deal with STX, a sponsor of one of the LXM Pro teams. The deal moved LXM to the MLL off-season and allowed players to participate in both MLL and LXM. However, LXM Pro didn't hold any tour stops after the announcement.
Southern trend (2012–2018)
During the early years of MLL, the league did not have any teams in the southeast. In January 2011, Commissioner David Gross announced that Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as Columbus, Ohio, were granted expansion teams for the 2012 season. The Ohio Machine and Charlotte Hounds opened play in April 2012, with both teams missing the playoffs in their inaugural season. With the expansion, the league grew to eight teams and expanded its schedule to fourteen games.In November 2013, the Hamilton Nationals folded and an expansion franchise was awarded to the Florida Launch for the 2014 season. The Launch inherited the Nationals roster. The Atlanta Blaze became the ninth MLL team in 2016. The Rattlers relocated from Rochester, New York, in 2018 to Dallas, Texas, and began play as the Dallas Rattlers in 2018.
Second contraction (2019 to present)
On April 1, 2019, just two months before the start of the season, the league announced that the Charlotte Hounds, Florida Launch, and Ohio Machine would not be playing in 2019. While the Hounds announced they would be back in 2021 under new ownership in a renovated stadium, the Launch and Machine effectively folded. The announcement dropped the league down to six teams, the fewest teams since 2011, and meant all remaining owners owned only one team. Jim Davis, owner of New Balance, had owned the Hounds, Launch, and Machine, but he now owns only the Dallas Rattlers.Returning from a two-year retirement, 44-year-old John Grant Jr. broke the record for career points scored during the 2019 season. Also in 2019, MLL saw its first goal by a Japanese player, Kohta Kurashima, who is also the first Japanese born player in MLL history. The Rattlers ceased operations after the 2019 season. and the staff and roster were shifted to an expansion team called the Connecticut Hammerheads. The Atlanta Blaze also ceased operations after the 2019 season and were replaced by a resurrected Philadelphia Barrage. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league announced they would play a week-long quarantined season in Annapolis at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium with no fans. Every team would play each other once before a four-team playoff as normal.
Rules
A Major League Lacrosse Field is 110 yards long and 60 yards wide. The game is 60 minutes long, divided into four fifteen minute quarters with 15-minute intermission at halftime, plus multiple 10-minute golden goal periods for regulation games ending in ties unless one team scores, which wins the game. Teams are required to dress twenty players, with ten players on the field at a time. MLL rules are based on NCAA rules with various changes. The most significant are a two-point goal line from each goal, a 60-second shot clock, the elimination of the restraining box, and allowing dive shots. The shot clock was originally 45 seconds before it was changed to 60 seconds for the 2005 season. From the inception of the league to 2008 there was a limit of three long-stick defensemen per team in order to promote scoring. Beginning in 2009, the league conformed to high school and college lacrosse rules and now allows four long–sticks per team on the field at any one time. 20 players dress for each regular season game.Teams
Current teams
| Team | City | Stadium | Capacity | Joined | Head coach |
| Boston Cannons | Quincy, Massachusetts | Veterans Memorial Stadium | 5,000 | 2001 | Sean Quirk |
| Chesapeake Bayhawks | Annapolis, Maryland | Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium | 34,000 | 2001 | TBA |
| Connecticut Hammerheads | Fairfield, Connecticut | Rafferty Stadium | 3,500 | 2020 | Bill Warder |
| Denver Outlaws | Denver, Colorado | Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium | 2,000 | 2006 | Tony Seaman |
| New York Lizards | Hempstead, New York | James M. Shuart Stadium | 11,929 | 2001 | B.J. O'Hara |
| Philadelphia Barrage | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 2001 | Spencer Ford |
On hiatus
| Team | City | Stadium | Capacity | Joined | Returning | Notes |
| Charlotte Hounds | Charlotte, North Carolina | American Legion Memorial Stadium | 10,500 | 2012 | 2021 | Inactive for 2019 and 2020 seasons |
Former teams
| Team | City | Joined | Folded | Notes |
| Atlanta Blaze | Atlanta, Georgia | 2016 | 2020 | |
| Chicago Machine | Chicago, Illinois | 2006 | 2010 | Played final season as a traveling team |
| Dallas Rattlers | Frisco, Texas | 2001 | 2020 | Originally Rochester Rattlers 2001–2008 and 2011–2017 |
| Florida Launch | Boca Raton, Florida | 2014 | 2019 | |
| Hamilton Nationals | Hamilton, Ontario | 2009 | 2013 | Toronto Nationals 2009–2010 |
| Los Angeles Riptide | Carson, California | 2006 | 2008 | |
| New Jersey Pride | Piscataway, New Jersey | 2001 | 2008 | Also played in Montclair and Bridgewater |
| Ohio Machine | Columbus, Ohio | 2012 | 2019 | |
| San Francisco Dragons | San Francisco, California | 2006 | 2008 | Played final season in San Jose |
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Championship games
Currently, the MLL Championship Game is played at a neutral site decided by the league. Teams qualify for the playoffs by finishing with one of the top four records during the regular season. Teams play in a semifinal to determine who plays in the Championship Game.| Season | Champion | Score | Runner-up | Venue | Location | Attendance | Game MVP |
| 2001 | Long Island Lizards | 15–11 | Baltimore Bayhawks | Kennedy Stadium | Bridgeport, CT | 6,745 | Paul Gait |
| 2002 | Baltimore Bayhawks | 21–13 | Long Island Lizards | Columbus Crew Stadium | Columbus, OH | 5,596 | Mark Millon |
| 2003 | Long Island Lizards | 15–14 | Baltimore Bayhawks | Villanova Stadium | Villanova, PA | 6,593 | Kevin Lowe |
| 2004 | Philadelphia Barrage | 13–11 | Boston Cannons | Nickerson Field | Boston, MA | 8,279 | Greg Cattrano |
| 2005 | Baltimore Bayhawks | 15–9 | Long Island Lizards | Nickerson Field | Boston, MA | 6,829 | Gary Gait |
| 2006 | Philadelphia Barrage | 23–12 | Denver Outlaws | The Home Depot Center | Carson, CA | 5,374 | Roy Colsey |
| 2007 | Philadelphia Barrage | 16–13 | Los Angeles Riptide | PAETEC Park | Rochester, NY | 5,288 | Matt Striebel |
| 2008 | Rochester Rattlers | 16–6 | Denver Outlaws | Harvard Stadium | Boston, MA | 8,481 | Joe Walters |
| 2009 | Toronto Nationals | 10–9 | Denver Outlaws | Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium | Annapolis, MD | 7,003 | Merrick Thomson |
| 2010 | Chesapeake Bayhawks | 13–9 | Long Island Lizards | Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium | Annapolis, MD | 6,445 | Kyle Hartzell |
| 2011 | Boston Cannons | 10–9 | Hamilton Nationals | Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium | Annapolis, MD | 5,027 | Jordan Burke |
| 2012 | Chesapeake Bayhawks | 16–6 | Denver Outlaws | Harvard Stadium | Boston, MA | 7,384 | Ben Rubeor |
| 2013 | Chesapeake Bayhawks | 10–9 | Charlotte Hounds | PPL Park | Chester, PA | 3,892 | John Grant Jr. |
| 2014 | Denver Outlaws | 12–11 | Rochester Rattlers | Fifth Third Bank Stadium | Kennesaw, GA | 8,149 | John Grant Jr. |
| 2015 | New York Lizards | 15–12 | Rochester Rattlers | Fifth Third Bank Stadium | Kennesaw, GA | 8,674 | Paul Rabil |
| 2016 | Denver Outlaws | 19–18 | Ohio Machine | Fifth Third Bank Stadium | Kennesaw, GA | 5,522 | Eric Law |
| 2017 | Ohio Machine | 17–12 | Denver Outlaws | The Ford Center at The Star | Frisco, TX | 7,543 | Marcus Holman |
| 2018 | Denver Outlaws | 16–12 | Dallas Rattlers | MUSC Health Stadium | Charleston, SC | 4,086 | Matt Kavanagh |
| 2019 | Chesapeake Bayhawks | 10–9 | Denver Outlaws | Dick's Sporting Goods Park | Denver, CO | 6,374 | Steele Stanwick |
| 2020 | Boston Cannons | 13-10 | Denver Outlaws | Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium | Annapolis, MD | No fans |
Performance by team
Italics indicates a defunct teamDraft
Every year, Major League Lacrosse holds a collegiate player draft. The collegiate player draft occurs prior to the league season. Only players who competed at the collegiate level and whose NCAA eligibility has expired in the previous season are eligible for the draft. The exact date, location, and number of rounds vary by year. The most recent MLL Collegiate Player Draft took place at the NASCAR Hall of Fame on March 8, 2019, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Face-off specialist Alex Woodall of Towson was selected first overall by the Ohio Machine.In addition, each off-season, MLL holds a supplemental player draft. The draft is held to expand a team's protected list to a pre-season active roster of 40 players. If players aren't selected, there are returned to the player pool.
MLL Collegiate Player Draft History
Attendance
Since 2006, overall league attendance has varied between 3,800 and 6,500 per game, peaking in 2011 and steadily decreasing to an all-time low in 2018. There has always been a great deal of disparity in attendance figures for different teams in the league. Playing at Invesco Field at Mile High, the Denver Outlaws have led the league in attendance all but one year of their existence. A significant portion of Denver's attendance is from one game each year. The Outlaws established a tradition of having a game on the Fourth of July that always attracts the biggest single-game attendance in the league. 31,644 people attended the game and watched fireworks afterward in 2015. The Fourth of July game has regularly attracted over 25,000 people. Outside of this special event game, Denver currently draws about 6,000 per game.| Season | Teams | Average attendance | High average | High Team | Low average | Low Team | Ref |
| 2006 | 10 | 4,295 | 11,634 | Denver | 2,202 | Chicago | |
| 2007 | 10 | 4,429 | 10,592 | Denver | 2,243 | Chicago | |
| 2008 | 10 | 4,515 | 10,853 | Denver | 1,920 | New Jersey | |
| 2009 | 6 | 5,557 | 10,127 | Denver | 2,569 | Chicago | |
| 2010 | 6 | 5,278 | 10,778 | Denver | 2,729 | Toronto | |
| 2011 | 6 | 6,417 | 12,331 | Denver | 1,214 | Hamilton | |
| 2012 | 8 | 5,609 | 9,648 | Boston | 1,838 | Hamilton | |
| 2013 | 8 | 5,069 | 9,466 | Denver | 1,991 | Rochester | |
| 2014 | 8 | 4,759 | 10,383 | Denver | 1,204 | Florida | |
| 2015 | 8 | 4,384 | 9,502 | Denver | 1,187 | Rochester | |
| 2016 | 9 | 4,268 | 9,390 | Denver | 1,456 | Rochester | |
| 2017 | 9 | 3,844 | 9,212 | Denver | 1,586 | Charlotte | |
| 2018 | 9 | 3,619 | 7,758 | Denver | 1,364 | Charlotte | |
| 2019 | 6 | 4,587 | 7,145 | Chesapeake | 1,739 | Atlanta |
League operations
The league is owned by Major League Lacrosse, LLC, which is controlled by the founders and the six franchises. The founders – Steinfeld, Morrow, Robertson, and Davis – control five of 14 ownership shares ; the nine franchises each have one ownership share. Davis owns two of the nine franchises and has a stake in two others.Atlanta Blaze owner Peter Trematerra sued Major League Lacrosse, LLC, Commissioner Gross, Jim Davis and several businesses controlled by the founders of the league in April 2017. Trematerra alleged that Gross provided inaccurate information about the profitability of the league in 2014, when Trematerra was considering buying an expansion franchise. The suit also claimed that because the league, some of its major sponsors, and Lax Sports Network were all controlled by the same people and entities, sponsorship and broadcast rights were sold for below market value.
In August 2017, the MLL accidentally exposed the confidential personal information of over 1,000 players, nearly everyone who has ever played in the league or tried out for a team. The information was stored in one excel spreadsheet that was publicly linked on the league's website for a day. It is unknown if any player experienced identity theft as a result of the incident.
| Name | Years | Title |
| Gabby Roe | 1999–2002 | Executive Director |
| Matthew Pace | 2002–2003 | Executive Director |
| David Gross | 2003–2004 | Chief Operating Officer |
| David Gross | 2004–2018 | Commissioner |
| Alexander "Sandy" Brown | 2018–present | Commissioner |
Headquarters:
- East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Secaucus, New Jersey
- Boston, Massachusetts
Television coverage
In 2017, Lax Sports Network was given exclusive rights to all 63 regular season games. Twitter streamed the semifinal games and CBS Sports Network broadcast the final.
On April 1, 2019, the league announced they had reacquired broadcast rights from Lax Sports Network. It was unclear where each team would broadcast its games, though the Cannons announced on March 28 that NBC Sports Boston would air all 16 of their games.
One day prior to the start of the 2019 season, the league announced that 12 games would be broadcast on Stadium and the network would air a weekly studio show.
Also in 2019, MLL re-partnered with the ESPN network. Weekly coverage was shown on ESPN+ and several games, including the league championship, were broadcast nationally on ESPN2. MLL saw their biggest television-reach in league history. The semi-finals and finals combined for 297 million total household viewers.
Major League Lacrosse would expand its relationship with ESPN for the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season. All 18 games will be available on the ESPN family of networks, including ESPN+. ESPN2 will broadcast two games on Sunday, July 19. A few days later, the partnership was expanded to TSN for Canadian viewers and ESPN Player to allow fans to watch from over 130 countries. The championship game will be broadcast on ESPN's flagship station on Sunday, July 26.