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 (the one beginning play in 1960) and National Football League (the one beginning play in 1920) champions up to the first Super Bowl season, and then only Super Bowl champions since. Baseball championships include World Series champions since 1903. Basketball championships include those from the National Basketball Association; its forerunner, the Basketball Association of America; and the American Basketball Association (the one beginning play in 1967). Ice hockey championships include World Hockey Association champions and all teams who won the Stanley Cup since the end of the Challenge Cup era (ended March 1914[1]). Soccer championships are of the outdoor variety only and include those from the North American Soccer League (the one beginning play in 1968); its forerunners, the United Soccer Association and National Professional Soccer League; and Major League Soccer. Canadian football championships includes Grey Cup winners.
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 MLS Cup 2020
| Rank | City | MLB[2] | NBA/ABA[3] | NFL/AFL/AAFC[4] | NHL/WHA[5][6] | MLS/NASL[7] | CFL[8] | 6 Major Sports Championships |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York City | 35 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 5 | - | 61 |
| 2 | Boston | 10 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 0 | - | 40 |
| 3 | Chicago | 6 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | - | 32 |
| 4 | Los Angeles | 7 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | - | 31 |
| 5 | Detroit | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 0 | - | 22 |
| 5 | San Francisco Bay Area | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 3 | - | 22 |
| 7 | Philadelphia | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | - | 19 |
| 8 | Pittsburgh | 5 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | - | 18 |
| 9 | St. Louis | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | 14 |
| 10 | Washington, D.C. | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | - | 13 |
| 10 | Green Bay | - | - | 13 | - | - | - | 13 |
| 10 | Cleveland | 2 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | - | 13 |
| 13 | Baltimore | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 14 | Dallas | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 9 |
| 14 | Houston | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 9 |
| 16 | Minneapolis | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 7 |
| 16 | Kansas City | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | - | 7 |
| 16 | Miami | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | 7 |
| 19 | Denver | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 6 |
| 20 | San Antonio | - | 5 | - | - | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 20 | Cincinnati | 5 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 5 |
| 20 | Tampa Bay | 0 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 5 |
| 20 | Seattle | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 5 |
| 23 | Indianapolis | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 4 |
| 25 | Atlanta | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | 3 |
| 25 | Newark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 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 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| 27 | Buffalo | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 2 |
| 27 | Columbus | - | - | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | 2 |
| 34 | Akron | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| 34 | New Orleans | - | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 1 |
| 34 | Phoenix | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 1 |
| 34 | Providence | - | 0 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| 34 | Raleigh | - | 0 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 34 | Syracuse | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 34 | Tulsa | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 34 | San Diego | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 1 |
| 34 | Louisville | - | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 1 |
| NR | Charlotte | - | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 0 |
| NR | Jacksonville | - | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 |
| NR | Memphis | - | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NR | Nashville | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 |
| NR | Oklahoma City | - | 0 | - | - | - | - | 0 |
| NR | Orlando | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - | 0 |
| NR | Sacramento | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 0 |
| NR | Las Vegas | - | - | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 |
References
- https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/stanley-cup
- https://www.baseball-reference.com
- https://www.basketball-reference.com
- https://www.pro-football-reference.com
- https://www.hockey-reference.com
- https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/stanley-cup
- http://www.nasl.com/yearly-results
- https://www.cfhof.ca/grey-cup-winners/