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.

Missouri is represented by five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, the Chiefs of the NFL, Sporting KC of MLS, and the Blues of the NHL.

Major league sports teams

* — Team represents a location in the state but play their home games outside the state boundaries.

Club	Sport	League
FC Kansas City	Women's Soccer	National Women's Soccer League
Kansas City Blues	Rugby	USA Rugby Division 1
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
Missouri Comets	Indoor Soccer	Major Arena Soccer League
Missouri Mavericks	Ice hockey	ECHL
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	Soccer	United Soccer League

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 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 Los Angeles 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

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

By state / territory

Midwest	Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North Dakota Ohio South Dakota Wisconsin

Northeast	Connecticut Delaware Maine Maryland Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Rhode Island Vermont Washington, D.C.

South	Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia

West	Alaska Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Idaho Montana Nevada New Mexico Oregon Utah Washington (state) Wyoming

Territories	American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands

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