Sport Chek is the largest Canadian retailer of sporting clothing and sports equipment, with 191 stores throughout Canada as of 2020. It is the only national big box sporting goods retailer in Canada, although it is absent in the

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and

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, while

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and

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are served by its sister brand

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instead. Its parent company,

FGL Sports FGL Sports Ltd. is a Canadian sporting goods retailer based in Calgary, Alberta. It operates under these corporate banners: ''Sport Chek'', ''Atmosphere'' (renamed from ''Coast Mountain Sports''), ''Sport Mart'' (all stores closed as of March 20 ...

, also owns over a dozen sporting brands. In 1999, a ''Sport Supercenter'' flagship store was opened on the top level of the

Londonderry Mall Londonderry Mall is a shopping centre located in north Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It contains over 150 stores and services with nine major tenants. The mall opened in 1972 and has been expanded and renovated since. Londonderry Mall has many nota ...

, replacing an existing

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store. In 2014, the Londonderry Mall store relocated to Manning Town Centre, and was replaced by

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in 2017. There was a second one in

Place d'Orléans Place d'Orléans (; French: ) is a shopping mall in Orléans suburb of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The property is about and has approximately 132 stores and services. Place d'Orléans was originally constructed in 1979 and underwent major expansi ...

, but it was converted to Sport Chek/Nevada's Bob Golf in 2012. In 2011,

Canadian Tire Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which operates in the automotive, hardware, sports, leisure and housewares sectors. Its Canadian operations include: Canadian Tire (including Canadian Tire Petroleum gas stations a ...

bought Sport Chek's parent company,

(then known as Forzani), for $771 million, and has since embarked on a large scale brand restructuring. New SportChek stores with Samsung OLED screens, tablets, and high tech were opened at

West Edmonton Mall West Edmonton Mall (WEM) is a shopping mall in Edmonton, Alberta, that is owned, managed, and operated by Triple Five Group. It is the second most visited mall in Canada, after the Toronto Eaton Centre in Toronto, followed by Metrotown Mall in B ...

in 2014, Square One and Yorkdale in 2015, and a flagship SportChek/Atmosphere opened in

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in the GTA in July 2016.''Canadian Tire buys Sport Chek, Athletes World owner'', The Guardian, 9-May-2011
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File:Edmonton (21374474908).jpg, The Sport Chek at

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, opened in 2014 (this picture is from 2015) Sport Chek in Square One Mississauga interior 2022.jpg, Sport Chek at

Square One Shopping Centre Square One Shopping Centre, or simply Square One, is a shopping mall located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest shopping centre in Ontario and the second largest shopping centre in Canada, after the West Edmonton Mall. It h ...

, Mississauga Sport Chek Atmosphere Sherway Gardens 2021.jpg, Sport Chek Atmosphere at

in Toronto, Ontario SportChek - Scarborough TC.jpg, A Sport Chek store at the

Scarborough Town Centre Scarborough Town Centre (STC) is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Central to the Scarborough City Centre in the former city of Scarborough, it is adjacent to Scarborough Centre station, the Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal and the CTV ...

in Toronto, Ontario. This is now closed and replaced with a

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Sport Chek website
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