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Expansion of major sports leagues in the United States and Canada

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In 2021, the NFL announced that they were planning on holding more regular season games outside of the United States in the near future, with Canada being one of the countries they were hoping to hold a game in, in addition to increasing the regular season schedule from 16 games to 17 games for each
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American football is the member of the top four major league sports with the least international exposure. The NFL has attempted to promote its game worldwide by scheduling selected pre-season games since 1976 in Mexico, Europe, Australia, and Japan. The NFL had promoted the game abroad through
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in Vancouver — both venues have had experience hosting NFL preseason games in the past, with Montreal hosting games in 1988 and 1990 and Vancouver hosting one in 1998 — expressed a desire to host a regular season game down the road shortly after the announcement was made.
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games. Early professional soccer activity was concentrated almost entirely on an East Coast corridor from Baltimore to Boston, though a series of leagues located solely within the St. Louis metropolitan area also served as de facto major leagues for periods.
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was the main means of intercity transportation. As a result, virtually all major league teams were concentrated in the northeastern quarter of the United States, within roughly the radius of a day-long train ride. No MLB teams existed south or west of
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in London every year since 2007. Preliminary talks to expand the NFL season with each team playing one game overseas was curtailed because the expansion was not approved in labor negotiations. The 2013 season was the first of four years in which the
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The NHL's national footprint is a relatively recent situation. Historically, the league was concentrated in the northeast, with no teams south of New York City or west of Chicago from 1935 until 1967. The league expanded its footprint westward in a
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teams. The San Francisco franchise would be one of three AAFC teams admitted to the NFL after the AAFC's demise in 1949. Baseball would not extend west until 1958 in the move of both New York-based National League franchises, the
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joining the Jaguars in taking a home game to London. The league openly acknowledged "that all three franchises are dissatisfied with their current stadium situations", although it noted that the Falcons were preparing to build
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As travel and settlement patterns changed, so did the geography of professional sports. With the arguable exception of the western hockey teams which competed for the Stanley Cup in the early 20th century and the independent
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Cities that no longer host major professional teams, but formerly hosted basketball (in red), football (in blue), hockey (in orange), or baseball teams (in yellow). Cities that hosted teams from multiple sports have a green
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has been the dominant professional sports league in Canada, and was first established in Canada in 1917. Some US-based leagues, like MLB, MLS, and the NBA, have awarded franchises to Canadian cities, though outside of
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in the early 2010s, mainly because they collect most of their revenues in Canadian dollars but pay their player salaries in U.S. dollars. As a result, the NHL returned to Winnipeg for the 2011–12 season, with the
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in Halifax. The CFL is the only major league that has ever had a presence in the Maritimes; it suspended its maritime operations after 2013 because of declining attendance. In 2015, the CFL commenced
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over a three-year period between 1993 and 1995, all in medium-sized markets that lacked an NFL team at the time (of the six markets, three had other major league franchises at the time), and played
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or suburban Toronto, the league currently opposes those efforts and has actively blocked efforts to relocate teams to Hamilton. In addition to full-time teams, the NHL, through its
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are the oldest US-based franchise in the NHL, having played in the league since 1924. When the WHA and NHL merged, the NHL inherited teams in three Canadian cities,
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Some of the Big Four sports leagues have looked to expand their revenues by playing overseas games in attempt to develop a wider international fan base.
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of less than 70,000, by far the smallest market to host major professional football in the modern era. (Fort McMurray is in close proximity to
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played one home game at Wembley Stadium, and the league held a second game that did not involve the Jaguars at Wembley in 2013. Jaguars owner
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in Toronto. The Bills were drawing about 15,000 Canadian fans per game during the time the Toronto Series ran, and the Bills' then-owner,
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The NFL is the only one of the major leagues to not have any teams based in any Canadian city; the closest teams to Canada are the
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football team of the 1930s and 1940s, there were no major league teams in the far west until after World War II. The first
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became prominent, the major sports leagues have expanded or franchises have relocated to service these communities.
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In October 2013, the NFL announced that three games would be played at Wembley in the 2014 season, with the
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teams existed from coast to coast in all four sports, but rarely played outside of their home region for
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featuring four NBA teams and four Euroleague clubs, with the first competition taking place in 2006.
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in Mexico City between the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals drew a crowd of over 103,000 to
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allowed these franchises to compete with teams in larger cities for some time. However, the teams in
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remain in their original city, or in Canada—the other two teams relocated to the U.S. in the 1990s. (
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In the 1950s and 1960s, selected NFL teams would travel north to Canada to play a CFL team in
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part of its market; roughly 10 percent of the team’s season ticket holders are from the
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List of American and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises
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In 2005, the NFL held its first regular-season game outside the United States. The
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was established in 1917 in Canada with four hockey clubs in three Canadian cities (
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Professional sports leagues as known today evolved during the decades between the
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who began play in 1969. In 2005, they moved to Washington, D.C. and became the
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The NHL was initially based entirely in eastern Canada, with teams in Toronto,
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to Los Angeles, while the NHL would not have a west coast presence until it
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were eventually moved to larger media markets in the U.S., respectively
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in the future; while there have been efforts to bring an NHL team to
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promotion, hosts a preseason game in a select small town each year.
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expansion of major sports leagues in the United States and Canada
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one regular-season game each year and sporadic pre-season games
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has occurred throughout the twentieth century for all of the
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has teams in all seven current NHL markets, in addition to
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List of defunct and relocated National Hockey League teams
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The first Major League Baseball team in Canada was the
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at season's end with teams from western Canada and the
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National Football League franchise moves and mergers
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Index

Expansion of North American major sports leagues
major professional sports leagues
Expansion of major sports leagues in the United States and Canada is located in the United States
Greensboro
Anderson
Waterloo
Providence
Sheboygan
Omaha
Syracuse
Rochester
Ft Wayne
Quad Cities
Akron
Canton
Dayton
Duluth
Evansville
Hartford
Kenosha
Louisville
Muncie
Racine
Toledo
Decatur
Portsmouth
Pottsville
Hamilton
Quebec
Troy

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