United States cities with teams from four major league sports
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There are 12 United States metropolitan areas that are home to teams that compete in each of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Hockey League (NHL). These leagues are sometimes called the "Big Four", in reference to their prominent position in North American sports.
Only the country's two largest metropolitan areas—New York and Los Angeles—have at least two teams in each major sports league.
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Italicized teams play outside the city limits of the metropolitan area's core city or cities; the specific location is given in parentheses. The core city or cities of a metropolitan area are identified in this reference.
Cities or metro areas formerly with teams in all four leagues
Atlanta, Cleveland, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Phoenix formerly hosted teams in all four major sports leagues simultaneously. Kansas City and St. Louis currently have two teams each, while the other cities have three.
Atlanta had teams from all four sports (MLB’s Atlanta Braves, NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, and NHL’s Atlanta Flames) from 1972, when the expansion Flames began play, until 1980, when the Flames moved to Calgary.
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