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Missouri hosts a number of sports teams. Missouri is home to six major league professional sports teams — three in the
St. Louis metropolitan area Greater St. Louis is a bi-state metropolitan area that completely surrounds and includes the independent city of St. Louis, the principal city. It includes parts of both Missouri and Illinois. The city core is on the Mississippi Riverfront on t ...
, and three in the
Kansas City metropolitan area The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more th ...
. Missouri hosted the
1904 Summer Olympics The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 29 August to 3 September 1904, as part of an extended s ...
at Washington University in St. Louis, the first time the games were hosted in the United States.


Major league sports teams

:* — Team represents a location in the state but plays its home games outside the state boundaries.


Teams in other top-level leagues

:* — Team represents a location in the state but plays its home games outside the state boundaries.


Minor leagues


Former teams


Teams which are no longer in Missouri


Defunct


College sports

There are six NCAA Division I teams in the state, one of which started a transition from NCAA Division II in July 2022. The only D-I program in the Football Bowl Subdivision is the Missouri Tigers. As of the 2022–23 school year, 13 schools play in NCAA Division II, with eight in the Great Lakes Valley Conference and five in the
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) is a List of NCAA conferences, college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the NCAA Division II, Division II level, headquartered ...
.


See also

*
Sports in Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area has a long history of sports, which has included national championship teams and championship title events. Major professional teams Kansas City has had teams in all five of the major, professional sports lea ...
* Sports in St. Louis *
Soccer in St. Louis Soccer in St. Louis, which dates from 1882, includes pro, college, select and prep soccer teams in St. Louis, Missouri, collectively forming one of the nation's richest municipal soccer heritages. Roots One of the earliest soccer games in St. Lo ...


References

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