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 Washington University in St. Louis, the first time the games were hosted in the United States.

Major league sports teams

Club Sport League
Kansas City Chiefs American football National Football League
Kansas City Royals Baseball Major League Baseball
Sporting Kansas City* Soccer Major League Soccer
St. Louis Blues Ice hockey National Hockey League
St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Major League Baseball
St. Louis City SC (from 2023) Soccer Major League Soccer
* — Team represents a location in the state but plays its home games outside the state boundaries.

Teams in other top-level leagues

Club Sport League
KC NWSL* Soccer National Women's Soccer League
* — Team represents a location in the state but plays its home games outside the state boundaries.

Minor leagues

Club Sport League
Club Atletico Saint Louis Soccer National Premier Soccer League
Demize NPSL Soccer National Premier Soccer League
Kansas City Blues Rugby USA Rugby Division 1
Kansas City Comets Indoor soccer Major Arena Soccer League
Kansas City Mavericks Ice hockey ECHL
Kansas City Monarchs[lower-alpha 1] Baseball American Association
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
River City Rascals Baseball Frontier League
Springfield Cardinals Baseball Texas League
Springfield Lasers Tennis World TeamTennis
St. Louis Ambush Indoor soccer Major Arena Soccer League
St. Louis BattleHawks American football XFL
St. Louis Lions Soccer USL League 2
Sporting Kansas City II[lower-alpha 2] Soccer USL Championship
  1. The Monarchs, renamed from T-Bones after the 2020 season, play home games on the Kansas side of the metropolitan area.
  2. Like their parent club of Sporting Kansas City, SKC2 plays on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan area, currently sharing Children's Mercy Park with Sporting.

Former teams

Teams which are no longer in Missouri

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 home games 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 Anaheim, California 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

Defunct

Club Sport League
FC Kansas City (folded in 2017 and roster transferred to Utah Royals FC; not related to the current KC NWSL, though it inherited the roster of Utah Royals FC after that team folded in 2020) Women's soccer National Women's Soccer 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 moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1956 after sending more players to Major League Baseball than any other Negro league team. The area's current American Association team renamed itself "Monarchs" in honor of this team shortly before the 2021 season.) Negro league baseball Negro National League

Negro American League

Kansas City Phantoms Indoor football Champions Indoor Football
Kansas City Sizzlers (moved to Topeka as the Topeka Sizzlers in 1986) Basketball Continental Basketball Association
Missouri River Otters (franchise folded in 2006) Ice hockey United Hockey League
Saint Louis Athletica (franchise folded in June 2010) Women's soccer Women's Professional Soccer
Saint Louis FC (folded after the 2020 season) Soccer USL Championship
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
St. Louis Giants/Stars (1906–1931) Negro league baseball Negro National League

College sports

There are five NCAA Division I teams in the state, of which the only with a Football Bowl Subdivision program is the Missouri Tigers. Fourteen schools play in NCAA Division II, with nine in the Great Lakes Valley Conference and five in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.

TeamCityDivisionPrimary
conference
Kansas City RoosKansas City NCAA Division I Summit League
Missouri TigersColumbia NCAA Division I Southeastern Conference
Missouri State Bears and Lady BearsSpringfield NCAA Division I Missouri Valley Conference
Saint Louis BillikensSt. Louis NCAA Division I Atlantic 10 Conference
Southeast Missouri RedhawksCape Girardeau NCAA Division I Ohio Valley Conference
Central Missouri Mules and Jennies Warrensburg NCAA Division II MIAA
Drury Panthers Springfield NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley
Lincoln Blue Tigers Jefferson City NCAA Division II MIAA
Lindenwood Lions St. Charles NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley
Maryville Saints St. Louis NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley
Missouri S&T Miners Rolla NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley
Missouri Southern Lions Joplin NCAA Division II MIAA
Missouri Western Griffons St. Joseph NCAA Division II MIAA
Northwest Missouri State Bearcats Maryville NCAA Division II MIAA
Rockhurst Hawks Kansas City NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley
Southwest Baptist Bearcats Bolivar NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley
Truman Bulldogs Kirksville NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley
UMSL Tritons St. Louis NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley
William Jewell Cardinals Liberty NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley
Fontbonne Griffins Clayton NCAA Division III St. Louis
Washington University Bears St. Louis NCAA Division III University Athletic Association
Webster Gorloks Webster Groves NCAA Division III St. Louis
Westminster Blue Jays Fulton NCAA Division III St. Louis

See also

References

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