A sports league

Sports league

League is a term commonly used to describe a group of sports teams or individual athletes that compete against each other in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete on weekends; at its most complex, it can be an...

 is a professional body that governs the competition of its teams. They make the rules for competition and behavior and disciplines its members as necessary. This is done through a structure that varies by league. Some are made up of a board of governors that have a Commissioner or President. While others are single entity organizations where the league owns the franchises and therefore does not have a board of governors.

A list of professional sports leagues:

This list attempts to show those sports leagues for which all players and teams are paid to play. In other words, these players can be considered to play their chosen sport as their profession

Profession

A profession is a vocation founded upon specialized educational training, the purpose of which is to supply disinterested counsel and service to others, for a direct and definite compensation, wholly apart from expectation of other business gain....

. Some leagues don't pay well enough to allow players to use them as their primary or only source of income, but because the players are paid, it's still considered
professional, or semi-professional. As such, some leagues listed here may not be fully professional.

Auto racing

Auto racing

Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

• Arena Racing USA
  Arena Racing USA
  Arena Racing USA is a motorsports series founded by former NASCAR chassis builder Ricky Dennis, son of 1970 NASCAR Rookie of the Year, Bill Dennis.-Details:...
  
   (Official website)
• American Le Mans Series
  American Le Mans Series
  The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón is a sports car racing series based in the United States and Canada. It consists of a series of endurance and sprint races, and was created in the spirit of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Teams compete in one of five classes: LMP1, LMP2 and LMPC...
  
   (Official Site)
• Asian Le Mans Series
  Asian Le Mans Series
  The Asian Le Mans Series is an Asian sports car racing endurance series created by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and based in Asia. It is the successor to the defunct Japan Le Mans Challenge which folded in 2007 after its second season...
  
   (Official Site)
• British Touring Car Championship
  British Touring Car Championship
  The British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom. The Championship was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and has run to various rules over the years – "production cars", then FIA Group 1 or 2 in the late 1960s...
  
   (Official Site)
• DTM - German Touring Car Masters
  Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
  The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters is a touring car racing series based in Germany, but also with rounds elsewhere in Europe....
  
   (Official Site)
• D1 Grand Prix
  D1 Grand Prix
  The , abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift, is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Option magazine & Tokyo Auto Salon founder Daijiro Inada, and drifting legend Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting...
  
   (Official Site)
• Formula One
  Formula One
  Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
  
  , aka Grand Prix racing (Official Site)
• FIA GT (Official Site)
• Formula D
  Formula D
  Formula DRIFT or Formula D is the premier United States drifting series. Formula Drift, Inc. was co-founded by Jim Liaw and Ryan Sage in 2003 as a sister company to Slipstream Global Marketing, the same partnership that brought D1 Grand Prix to the United States. The new entity would solely own,...
  
   (Official Site)
• Grand Am
  Grand American Road Racing Association
  GRAND-AM Road Racing or GRAND-AM is an auto racing sanctioning body that was established in 1999 to organize road racing competitions in North America...
  
   (Official Site)
• IndyCar Series
  IndyCar Series
  The IZOD IndyCar Series is the premier level of American open wheel racing. The current championship, founded by Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony George, began in 1996 as a competitor to CART known as the Indy Racing League . Citing CART's increasing reliance on expensive machinery and...
  
   (Indy Racing League) (Official Site)
• Le Mans Series
  Le Mans Series
  The Le Mans Series is a European sports car racing endurance series based around the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and run by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest . The series was originally named the Le Mans Endurance Series, but changed its name prior to the 2006 season...
  
   (Official Site)
• NASCAR
  NASCAR
  The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...
  
   (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) (Official Site)
• NHRA (National Hot Rod Association
  National Hot Rod Association
  The National Hot Rod Association is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and host events all over the United States and Canada...
  
  ) (Official Site)
• SCCA World Challenge
  SPEED World Challenge
  The Pirelli World Challenge is a North American auto racing series that is sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America . Founded in 1985, it consists of four classes: grand touring, touring car, a "GTS" class since 2010, and a "touring car B-spec" since 2012...
  
   (Official Site)
• Super GT
  Super GT
  The Super GT series, formerly known as the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship or JGTC , is a grand touring car race series promoted by the GT-Association...
  
   (Official Site)
• V8 Supercar
  V8 Supercar
  V8 Supercars is a touring car racing category based in Australia and run as an International Series under Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile regulations...
  
   (Australia) (Official Site)
• World Rally Championship
  World Rally Championship
  The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...
  
   (Official Site)
• World Touring Car Championship is pop (Official Site)

Asia

:

• • China Baseball League
    China Baseball League
    The China Baseball League or Chinese Baseball League or CBL is a professional baseball league under the administration of Chinese Baseball Association, founded in 2002.-Teams:...
    
    

(Taiwan):

• • Chinese Professional Baseball League
    Chinese Professional Baseball League
    The Chinese Professional Baseball League , or CPBL, is the top-tier professional baseball league in Taiwan. The league was established in 1989. CPBL eventually absorbed the competing Taiwan Major League in 2003...
    
    

• • Major: Korea Professional Baseball
  • Minor: Korea Baseball Futures League
    Korea Baseball Futures League
    Futures League is the 2nd highest level below that of Korea Professional Baseball in South Korea. It has a role as a farm league, whose the purpose is to develop players available to play in Korea Professional Baseball league on demand. Futures League consists of two small leagues that are...
    
    

• • Nippon Professional Baseball:
    • Central League
      Central League
      The or is one the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League in the annual Japan Series. It currently consists of six teams from around the country,The Central League...
      
      
    • Pacific League
      Pacific League
      The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the annual Japan Series...
      
      
  • Minor:
    • Eastern League
      Eastern League (Japanese baseball)
      The is one of the two minor leagues of Japanese professional baseball. The league is owned and managed by the Central League.-History:The league was created in 1955, and contained the minor league teams of the seven professional teams that had their homefields in the Eastern region of Japan...
      
      
    • Western League
      Western League (Japanese baseball)
      The is one of the two minor leagues of Japanese professional baseball. The league is owned and managed by the Pacific League.-History:The league was created in 1952 as the Kansai Farm League, and contained the minor league teams of the seven professional teams that had their homefields in the...
      
      
  • Independent:
    • Baseball Challenge League
      Baseball Challenge League
      The is a baseball league in Japan. The abbreviated designation "."-Teams:-External links:*...
      
      
    • Kansai Independent Baseball League
      Kansai Independent Baseball League
      The is a professional baseball league in Japan. Its debut season was in .The league's activities became public in 2008. Plans to form the league were announced at a press conference on March 6. On July 30, the names of the four teams were released....
      
      
    • Shikoku-Kyūshū Island League
      Shikoku-Kyushu Island League
      The is a baseball league on the islands of Shikoku in Japan. Neither the Central nor the Pacific League has a team based in Shikoku.IBLJ Inc. operates the league...
      
      

Americas

and

• Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
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  • AL - American League
    American League
    The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major...
    
    
  • NL - National League
    National League
    The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...
    
    

• Minor League Baseball
  Minor league baseball
  Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in the Americas that compete at levels below Major League Baseball and provide opportunities for player development. All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses...
  
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  • ApL - Appalachian League
    Appalachian League
    The Appalachian League is a Rookie-class minor league that began play in 1937 with one year of inactivity in 1956. From 1937 to 1962, it was a Class D League. Teams are located in the Appalachian regions of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Tennessee...
    
    
  • AzL - Arizona League
    Arizona League
    The Arizona League is a minor league baseball league that operates in and around Phoenix, Arizona. It is a rookie-level professional baseball league run by Major League Baseball since 1989. Games are played at the spring training complexes of the team's parent organizations from mid-June until the...
    
    
  • CalL - California League
    California League
    The California League is a Class A Advanced minor league baseball league which operates throughout the state of California. Before 2002, it was classified as a "High-A" league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth...
    
    
  • CarL - Carolina League
    Carolina League
    The Carolina League is a minor league baseball affiliation which operates in the South Atlantic Coast of the United States. Before 2002, it was classified as a "High A" league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth...
    
    
  • EL - Eastern League
  • FSL - Florida State League
    Florida State League
    The Florida State League is a Class A-Advanced minor league baseball league operating in the state of Florida. They are one of three leagues currently operating in Class A-Advanced, the third highest of six classifications of minor leagues...
    
    
  • GCL - Gulf Coast League
    Gulf Coast League
    The Gulf Coast League is a minor league baseball league which operates in Florida. It is a Rookie League, with a season running from mid-June to late August. The season is 60 games long and teams in the league are divided into three divisions, East, North and South...
    
    
  • IL - International League
    International League
    The International League is a minor league baseball league that operates in the eastern United States. Like the Pacific Coast League and the Mexican League, it plays at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball. It was so named because it had teams in both the United States...
    
    
  • MwL - Midwest League
    Midwest League
    The Midwest League is a Class-A minor league baseball league which operates in the Midwestern United States.-History:Six teams – the Belleville Stags, the Centralia Cubs, the Marion Indians, the Mattoon Indians or East Frankfort White Sox, the Mount Vernon Braves, and the West Frankfort...
    
    
  • NYPL - New York - Penn League
    New York - Penn League
    The New York – Penn League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the northeastern United States. It is classified as a "Short-Season A" league; its season starts in June, after major-league teams have signed their amateur draft picks to professional contracts, and ends in early...
    
    
  • NwL - Northwest League
    Northwest League
    The Northwest League of Professional Baseball is a Class A-Short Season minor baseball league. The league is the descendant of the Western International League which ran as a class B league from 1937-1951 and class A from 1952-1954...
    
    
  • PCL - Pacific Coast League
    Pacific Coast League
    The Pacific Coast League is a minor-league baseball league operating in the Western, Midwestern and Southeastern United States. Along with the International League and the Mexican League, it is one of three leagues playing at the Triple-A level, which is one step below Major League Baseball.The...
    
    
  • PBL - Pioneer League
  • SAL - South Atlantic League
    South Atlantic League
    The South Atlantic League is a minor league baseball league based chiefly in the Southeastern United States, with the exception of three teams in the Mid-Atlantic States...
    
    
  • SL - Southern League
    Southern League (baseball)
    The Southern League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the Southern United States. It is classified a Double-A league. The original league was formed in , and shut down in . A new league, the Southern Association, was formed in , consisting of twelve teams...
    
    
  • TL - Texas League
    Texas League
    The Texas League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the South Central United States. It is classified a Double-A league. The league was founded in 1888 and ran through 1892...
    
    

• Independent Baseball:
  • American Association of Independent Professional Baseball
  • Atlantic League of Professional Baseball
    Atlantic League of Professional Baseball
    The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball is a professional, independent baseball organization located primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, especially the greater metropolitan areas of the Northeast megalopolis. It operates in cities not served by Major or Minor League...
    
    
  • Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball
    Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball
    The Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, based in Durham, North Carolina, is a professional, independent baseball league located in the Northeastern United States and the Canadian province of Quebec. It operates in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is...
    
    
  • Frontier League
    Frontier League
    The Frontier League, based in Sauget, Illinois, is a professional, independent baseball organization located in the Midwestern United States, Western Pennsylvania, and Southern Ontario. It operates mostly in cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either...
    
    
  • North American League
    North American League
    The North American League is an independent baseball league that began play in the 2011 season...
    
    
  • Pecos League
    Pecos League
    The Pecos League is an independent professional baseball league Headquartered in Houston, Tx. which operates in cities in desert mountain regions throughout New Mexico, Southern Colorado and West Texas. Pecos Teams play in cities that do not have Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not...
    
    

• • Colombian Professional Baseball League
    Colombian Professional Baseball League
    The Colombian Professional Baseball League, also known as the Colombian Winter League, is a professional baseball league based in Colombia...
    
    

• • Dominican Summer League
    Dominican Summer League
    The Dominican Summer League is a branch of affiliated minor league baseball which is played in the Dominican Republic. The league was founded in 1985. The 2011 72-game season begins May 28 and ends August 20...
    
     (Official Minor League Affiliate)
  • Dominican Winter Baseball League

• • Mexican League (Official Minor League Affiliate)
  • Mexican Pacific League

• • Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League
    Nicaraguan Professional Baseball League
    La Liga Nicaragüense de Beisbol Profesional was inaugurated on Saturday, March 30, 1956 in Estadio Nacional. The first game was between the teams from San Fernando and Bóer. The Nicaraguan public's excitement for baseball grew as foreign professional teams and foreign players came to play in their...
    
    

• • Puerto Rico Baseball League

• • Venezuelan Summer League
    Venezuelan Summer League
    The Venezuelan Summer League is a minor league baseball rookie league which operates in Carabobo and Aragua states, Venezuela.The VSL was created in 1997, after several operational years of the Major League Baseball's academies in the country...
    
     (Official Minor League Affiliate)
  • Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
    Venezuelan Professional Baseball League
    The Venezuelan Professional Baseball League or Liga Venezolana de Béisbol Profesional is the highest level baseball league in Venezuela.-Brief history:Baseball exploded in Venezuela in 1941, following the world championship in Havana....
    
    

Basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

• 1. A SKL - known for sponsorship reasons as Liga Telemach
  Premier A Slovenian Basketball League
  The Premier A Slovenian Basketball League , abbreviated as 1. A SKL and known for sponsorship reasons as the Telemach League , is the top-level professional men's basketball league in Slovenia...
  
   (Slovenia
  Slovenia
  Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
  
  )
• A-1 Liga (Croatia)
• ACB - Liga ACB (Spain
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
  , men's first level)
• ABA
  • Liga ABA, also known as Adriatic League (Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
    
    , Czech Republic
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
    
    , Croatia
    Croatia
    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
    
    , Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
    
    , Montenegro
    Montenegro
    Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
    
     and Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
    
    )
  • American Basketball Association
    American Basketball Association (21st century)
    The American Basketball Association, often abbreviated as ABA, is a semi-professional men's basketball league that was founded in 1999. The current ABA has no affiliation with the original American Basketball Association that merged with the National Basketball Association in 1976...
    
     (Official Page)
• ABL - ASEAN Basketball League
  ASEAN Basketball League
  The ASEAN Basketball League, often abbreviated to the ABL, is a men's professional basketball league in Southeast Asia. Six clubs from six different countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations competed in the league's 2009 inaugural season...
  
   (Asean Countries) (Official page)
• Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• BBL
  • Baltic Basketball League
    Baltic Basketball League
    Baltic Basketball League is a Baltic states basketball league founded in 2004.Currently, the league is divided into two: the Elite division and the Challenge Cup division. The 10 strongest Baltic basketball clubs participate in the Elite division. The rest of the teams compete in the Challenge Cup...
    
     (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Sweden)
  • Basketball BundesLiga
    Basketball Bundesliga
    The Basketball Bundesliga — commonly abbreviated BBL — is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage...
    
     (Germany)
  • British Basketball League
    British Basketball League
    The British Basketball League, often abbreviated to the BBL, is the premier men's professional basketball league in the United Kingdom. The BBL runs two knockout competitions alongside the league championship; the BBL Cup and the BBL Trophy....
    
     (United Kingdom)
• BLB - Basketball League Belgium
  Basketball League Belgium
  The Basketball League Belgium , also known as the Ligue Ethias or Ethias League, is the highest professional basketball league in Belgium.-Teams:* Antwerp Giants* Belgacom Liège Basket* Dexia Mons-Hainaut* Generali Okapi Aalstar...
  
  
• BLNO
  BLNO
  BLNO is Norway's premier professional men's basketball league. It was established in 2000.-Competition:There are 8 teams in the BLNO. Foreign players are allowed on all teams, but a maximum of two Americans are allowed on the court at a time...
  
   (Norway)
• BSN - National Superior Basketball (Puerto Rico)
• CBA - Chinese Basketball Association
  Chinese Basketball Association
  The Chinese Basketball Association , often abbreviated to the CBA, is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in China.The league is commonly known as the CBA, and this acronym is often used even in Chinese...
  
  
• DBL - Dutch Basketball League
  Dutch Basketball League
  The Dutch Basketball League , is the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands. The league has a closed system...
  
  
• Euroleague - Pan-Europe
  Europe
  Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
  
  an competition for elite clubs (Official Page)
• Eurocup - known as the ULEB Cup from 2002-2008. Is the second-tier transnational professional basketball competition in Europe.
• EuroChallenge
  EuroChallenge
  The EuroChallenge is the 3rd tier level transnational men's professional club basketball competition in Europe. It is organized and run by FIBA Europe...
  
   - is the top Men's Basketball competition directly run by FIBA Europe. The competition was created in 2003 following the defection of several top European basketball teams from the former European Champions' Cup which heralded the formation of the Euroleague under the umbrella of ULEB.
• Greek Basket League (Greece, first level)
• HEBA A2 (Greece, second level)
• IBL - International Basketball League
  International Basketball League
  The International Basketball League was a short lived professional basketball league in the United States. The IBL was headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The league started in 1999 and ended in 2001.-History:...
  
  
• ISL - Iranian Basketball Super League
  Iranian Basketball Super League
  The Iranian Basketball Super League is a professional basketball league in Iran founded in 1998.-2011–12 teams:*Azad University Tehran*Bank Saman Tehran*Foolad Mahan Isfahan*Hamyari Shahrdari Zanjan*Jahesh Tarabar Qom*Louleh a.s Shiraz*Mahram Tehran...
  
   (Iran)
• KBL - Korean Basketball League
  Korean Basketball League
  The Korean Basketball League, often abbreviated to the KBL, is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in South Korea. Its inaugural season was in 1997. The season starts in October and ends in April the following year. The KBL consists of 10 teams. Each team plays 54 games . Each team...
  
   (South Korea) (Official Page)
• Korisliiga
  Korisliiga
  Korisliiga is the top league of basketball in Finland, comprising the top 12 teams of the country. In current format each team plays all other teams twice in the regular season, both at home and away...
  
   (Finland)
• KLS – Basketball League of Serbia
• LBL - Latvian Basketball League
  Latvian Basketball League
  Latvian Basketball League is the national basketball championship of Latvia. The first LBL season was played in 1992. From 1992 to 1999 all championships were won by BK Brocēni, however from 2000 to 2006 BK Ventspils were the champions. In 2007, ASK Rīga stopped BK Ventspils winning streak. BK...
  
  
• LEB - Liga Española de Baloncesto
  Liga Española de Baloncesto
  Liga Española de Baloncesto is the second league of the Spanish basketball league system behind the ACB. It is run by the FEB. The Liga Española de Baloncesto is divided into two categories and they are sponsored by Adecco. The names of the two leagues are Adecco Oro and Adecco Plata.The LEB league...
  
   (Spain, men's second level)
• Lega Basket Serie A (Italy, first level)
• Legadue (Italy, second level)
• LFB - Liga Femenina de Baloncesto
  Liga Femenina de Baloncesto
  -Competition format:The league is similar to Liga ACB, each team has to play all the other teams in its division twice, one at home and one away, At the end of the league, the eight best teams start a play-off.-Qualification for European competitions:...
  
   (Spain, women's first level)
• Ligat HaAl (Israel)
• LKL - Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga
  Lietuvos Krepšinio Lyga
  The Lietuvos krepšinio lyga is Lithuania's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of 12 teams.- History :...
  
   (Lithuania)
• LNB
  • Liga Nacional de Básquet (Argentina)
  • Ligue Nationale de Basketball
    Ligue Nationale de Basketball
    The Ligue National de Basket is the top men's French professional basketball league. There are two divisions: French Pro A League and French Pro B League .-Pro A:...
    
     (France), itself divided into two fully professional leagues, Pro A and Pro B
• LNBP - Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional
  Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional
  The Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional is the top professional basketball league in Mexico. The league was founded in 2000 with 11 teams, expanding to 24 as of 2008...
  
   (Mexico
  Mexico
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
  
  )
• NBA - National Basketball Association
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
   (United States & Canada) (Official Page)
• NBA D-League - NBA Development League
  NBA Development League
  The NBA Development League, or NBA D-League, is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. Known until summer 2005 as the National Basketball Development League , the NBA D-League started with eight teams in the fall of 2001...
  
   (Official Page)
• NBA Summer Pro League
• NBB - Novo Basquete Brasil
  Novo Basquete Brasil
  Novo Basquete Brasil is the Brazilian premier profissional men's basketball league. Organized by the Liga Nacional de Basquete , in a new format to the Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete, this league is managed for the first time by 19 Brazilian basketball associations, all LNB founding...
  
   (Official Page)
• NBL
  • National Basketball League (Australasia)
    National Basketball League (Australasia)
    The National Basketball League, also known as the iiNet NBL Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in Australasia....
    
     (Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
    
     with one team in New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
    
    )
  • National Basketball League (New Zealand)
    National Basketball League (New Zealand)
    The National Basketball League, often abbreviated to the NBL, is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in New Zealand.There were 10 teams in the 2010 season with teams based in Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Invercargill, Nelson, New Plymouth, North Shore, Palmerston North,...
    
     (New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
    
     only)
  • National Basketball League (Indonesia)
    National Basketball League (Indonesia)
    The National Basketball League , in Indonesian: Liga Bola Basket Nasional, often abbreviated to the NBL, is the pre-eminent men's basketball league in Indonesia, competed by 10 clubs across the country. It is organised by DBL Indonesia and sanctioned by Perbasi...
    
    
• Opportunity League
  Opportunity League
  The Opportunity Liga is a national professional basketball league in Montenegro. It is the top basketball division in Montenegro's Košarkaški savez Crne Gore national basketball federation. It was established in the year 2006, shortly after Montenegro declared its independence from Serbia and...
  
   (Montenegro
  Montenegro
  Montenegro Montenegrin: Crna Gora Црна Гора , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast and Albania to the...
  
  )
• PBA - Philippine Basketball Association
  Philippine Basketball Association
  The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...
  
   (Philippines) (Official Page)
• PBL
  • Russian Professional Basketball League (men's first level)
  • Premier Basketball League
    Premier Basketball League
    The Premier Basketball League, often abbreviated to the PBL, is a men's professional basketball minor league in the United States that began play in January 2008. The league had ten teams for the 2008 season and thirteen teams for the 2009 season. Nine teams from Canada and the United States...
    
     (United States)
• PLK - Polska Liga Koszykówki, also called Tauron Basket Liga for sponsorship reasons (Poland
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
  , men) Official page
• PLKK - Polska Liga Koszykówki Kobiet
  PLKK
  PLKK is a Polish female basketball league. The league also uses sponsors' names.- PLKK names in previous seasons :* 2006-still Ford Germaz Ekstraklasa...
  
  , also called Torell Basket Liga for sponsorship reasons (Poland
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
  , women) Official page
• Russian SuperLeague
  Russian Basketball Super League
  The Russian Basketball SuperLeague is a men's professional basketball league that was the pre-eminent league of Russian professional basketball until 2010...
  
   (men's second level)
• SBL - Super Basketball League
  Super Basketball League
  The Super Basketball League , often abbreviated to the SBL, is the pre-eminent men's semi-professional basketball league in Taiwan. It was founded in 2003 and considered by many as the successor organization to the short-lived Chinese Basketball Alliance , a men's professional basketball league...
  
   (Taiwan)
• TBL - Turkish Basketball League
  Turkish Basketball League
  The Turkish Basketball League is the top men’s professional basketball league in Turkey, which is also called Turkish Premier Basketball League . There is also a Turkish Second Basketball League consisting of 2 divisions .-History:The first basketball game played in Turkey was at the Robert...
  
  
• TKBL - Türkiye 1. Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi, or Turkish Women's Basketball League
  Turkish Women's Basketball League
  The Turkish Women’s Basketball League is the top women’s professional basketball league in Turkey organized by the Turkish Basketball Federation. The women’s league started in 1980...
  
   in English
• TPBL - Texas Pro Basketball League
• USBL - United States Basketball League
  United States Basketball League
  The United States Basketball League , often abbreviated to the USBL, was a professional men's spring basketball league. The league was formed in 1985. The final champions are the Kansas Cagerz, who won the title game on July 1, 2007.-History:...
  
   (Official Page)
• VTB United League
  VTB United League
  VTB United League is an international professional basketball league that was founded in 2008. Its goal is to unite the leading basketball clubs of Eastern Europe and Northern Europe together into one league. The league is sponsored by VTB Bank. In its inaugural 2009–10 season, it featured clubs...
  
   – Russia, the Baltics
  Baltic states
  The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...
  
  , Finland, Poland, and Ukraine.
• WBA - World Basketball Association
  World Basketball Association
  The World Basketball Association, often abbreviated to the WBA, is a professional men's spring basketball league in the United States.-History:The WBA was conceived in 2004, with seven teams scheduled to play...
  
  
• WNBA - Women's National Basketball Association
  Women's National Basketball Association
  The Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association...
  
   (Official Page)
• WNBL - Women's National Basketball League
  Women's National Basketball League
  The Women's National Basketball League is the pre-eminent women's professional basketball league in Australia. It currently is composed of ten teams. The league was founded in 1981 and is the women's counterpart to the National Basketball League...
  
   (Australia) (Official Page)
• Hong Kong Basketball League, All-Hong Kong Youth Basketball League

Boxing

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

Major Promotions:

• Top Rank Boxing
  Top Rank
  Top Rank may refer to:*Top Rank, Las Vegas based boxing promotion company formed in 1973* Top Rank Records, 1950s subsidiary record label of the Rank Organisation, British company which ran from 1937 to 1996...
  
  
• Golden Boy Promotions
  Golden Boy Promotions
  Golden Boy Promotions, Inc. is a combat sport promotional firm started by former boxer six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya...
  
  
• Don King Promotions
• Goossen Tutor Promotions
• DiBella Entertainment
  Lou DiBella
  Louis John DiBella, Jr. is a boxing promoter and television/film producer. He is Founder and CEO of DiBella Entertainment based in New York City...
  
  
• Gary Shaw Productions
  Gary Shaw (boxing promoter)
  Gary Shaw is an American boxing promoter.Shaw began his professional affiliation with boxing in 1971, when he was appointed inspector to the New Jersey State Athletic Control Commission by Jersey Joe Walcott....
  
  
• Sauerland Events
  Wilfried Sauerland
  Wilfried Sauerland is a German boxing promoter and manager.-Career:Boxing camps associated with Sauerland, have had various locations:...
  
  
• (Meanmachine Promotions)

Major Sanctioning Bodies:

• World Boxing Association
  World Boxing Association
  The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...
  
   (WBA)

• World Boxing Council
  World Boxing Council
  The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...
  
   (WBC)

• International Boxing Federation
  International Boxing Federation
  The International Boxing Federation or IBF is one of four major organizations recognized by IBHOF which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the WBA, WBC and WBO.- History :...
  
   (IBF)

• World Boxing Organization
  World Boxing Organization
  The World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...
  
   (WBO)

• The Ring Magazine
  The Ring (magazine)
  The Ring is an American boxing magazine that was first published in 1922 as a boxing and wrestling magazine. As the sporting legitimacy of professional wrestling came more into question, The Ring shifted to becoming exclusively a boxing oriented publication...
  
   (Unofficial Sanctioning Body)

Africa

• National Elite League Twenty20
  National Elite League Twenty20
  National Elite League Twenty20 is a defunct Twenty 20 domestic Cricket competition in Kenya that was held by Cricket Kenya. It was a part of the Sahara Elite League program...
  
  
• Zonal League
• N.P.C.A. 50 Over League
• N.P.C.A. 20 Over League
• Sahara Elite League
  Sahara Elite League
  The Sahara Elite League was a four team cricket competition created by Cricket Kenya featuring a Twenty20 tournament, a one day cricket tournament and finally a three day cricket tournament...
  
  

• Standard Bank Cup
• SAA Provincial Challenge

• GTA 20/20 Cricket Tourney http://blogs.cricinfo.com/btw/archives/nigeria/
• Iris Smart Technologies (CCC) League
• Super Four
• Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) Tournament

• The National Suffo League

• MTN Domestic Championship
  MTN Domestic Championship
  The 1 Day Cup is the premier domestic one-day cricket competition of South Africa, its matches having List A status...
  
  
• South African Airways Provincial Challenges
  South African Airways Provincial Challenges
  The South African cricket championship, the SuperSport Series, was remodelled in 2004-05 with six franchise teams competing. Two extra domestic competitions were introduced that are called the South African Airways Provincial Three-Day Challenge and the South African Airways Provincial One-Day...
  
  
• Standard Bank Pro 20 Series
  Standard Bank Pro 20 Series
  The Standard Bank Pro20 Series is the premier Twenty20 cricket competition in South Africa, first contested in the 2003–04 season. The Knights, the Titans and the Cape Cobras have each won the title twice and are the most successful teams....
  
  
• SuperSport Series
  SuperSport Series
  The SuperSport Series is the main domestic first class cricket competition in South Africa, first contested in 1889-90. From 1990-91 it became known as the Castle Cup, and from 1996-97 by its current title...
  
  

• Castle Lager League http://blogs.cricinfo.com/btw/archives/2006/04/castle_lager_le.php
• NCR20/20 Corporate League http://content-www.cricinfo.com/other/content/story/352927.html
• East and Central Africa Cricket Championship (ECACC)
• Mawanda Cup
• Africa Zone VI Championship

• Logan Cup
  Logan Cup
  The Logan Cup is the premier domestic first-class cricket competition in Zimbabwe. The current champions are the Matabeleland Tusker.-History:...
  
  
• Faithwear Cup http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2007-08/ZIM_LOCAL/
• Twenty20 Cup
• MTN Domestic Championship

Americas

• The NEC Trophy http://blogs.cricinfo.com/btw/archives/2008/05/argentinian_dom.php
• First Division Championship
• Robin Stuart Shield
• Saturday Championships
• Sunday Championships
• Twenty20 League http://blogs.cricinfo.com/btw/archives/2007/11/argentina_prepa.php

• Metropolitan Cup

• Carib Beer Cup
  Carib Beer Cup
  The Regional Four Day Competition, formerly known as Shell Shield and Carib Beer Cup, is the first class cricket competition in the West Indies, it is administered by the West Indies Cricket Board...
  
  
• KFC Cup
  KFC Cup
  The Regional Super 50 is the current name of the domestic one-day cricket competition in the West Indies, it was previously known as the KFC Cup until the fast food chain pulled out of sponsorship in 2008 and the WICB Cup until 2011...
  
  
• Stanford 20/20
  Stanford 20/20
  The Stanford 20/20 Tournament was a cricket tournament in the Caribbean island of Antigua. It was held first in July and August 2006 in the West Indies at the Stanford Cricket Ground, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda and the same place the year after...
  
  
• TCL Under-19 West Indies Challenge
• TCL Under-19 West Indies Challenge Limited Overs Series
• Inter-Colonial Tournament
  Inter-Colonial Tournament
  The Inter-Colonial Tournament was the main first class cricket competition in the West Indies before World War II.- Competing teams :* Barbados* British Guiana* Trinidad...
  
  
• WIWCF Women's Senior Tournament

• Major League Cricket
  Major League Cricket
  Major League Cricket, or MLC, is a New York based company dedicated to running a professional cricket competition within the United States, as well as developing and promoting the sport to raise its profile in North America...
  
  
• Colorado Cricket League
  Colorado Cricket League
  The Colorado Cricket League is a non-profit, eight-clubs with 9 teams cricket organization based in the state of Colorado. The league was formalized in 1985.-History:...
  
  
• Central West Championship
• Twenty20 League
• Freedom T20 Cricket Tournament http://www.cricketcouncilusa.com/News/RecentNews.aspx?NewsId=1

West Indies (composed of each country with its own leagues):

• Sir Garfield Sobers Cricket Tournament

• 50-Overs League
• Open Cricket
• 20-20 Cricket
• Bowl-Off

 Anguilla

 Antigua and Barbuda

 The Bahamas

 British Virgin Islands

 Dominica

 Grenada

 Guyana

 Jamaica

  Leeward Islands

Leeward Islands

The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies. They are the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. As a group they start east of Puerto Rico and reach southward to Dominica. They are situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean...

 

 Montserrat

 Saint Kitts and Nevis

 Saint Lucia

 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

 Sint Maarten

 Trinidad and Tobago

 United States Virgin Islands

  Windward Islands

Windward Islands

The Windward Islands are the southern islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies.-Name and geography:The Windward Islands are called such because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds in the...

Asia

• Bahrain Cricket League

• National Cricket League of Bangladesh
  National Cricket League of Bangladesh
  The National Cricket League is the domestic first class cricket competition in Bangladesh.The National Cricket League had in fact been inaugurated in the 1999–2000 season but was not then first-class...
  
  
• One-Day Cricket League of Bangladesh
  One-Day Cricket League of Bangladesh
  The One-Day Cricket League is the principal domestic limited overs cricket competition in Bangladesh.Bangladesh became the tenth Full Member of the ICC in 2000 and the one-day league was inaugurated in the 2000–01 season.-One-Day Cricket League Winners:...
  
  

• Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes
  Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes
  The Hong Kong Cricket Sixes is an annual 10-team international cricket tournament held at the Kowloon Cricket Club and fully sanctioned by the International Cricket Council. The tournament is made for television, with rules and a venue that encourage aggressive batting and high scoring...
  
  
• Summer Eights http://www.cricinfo.com/db/NATIONAL/ICC_MEMBERS/HKG/DOMESTIC.html#News
• Saturday League
• Sunday League
• Social League
• Knock-out Tournament
• Hong Kong Cricket Association Round Robin http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES2/articles/000033/003320.shtml

• Indian Premier League
  Indian Premier League
  The Indian Premier League is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , headquartered in Mumbai, and is supervised by BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, who serves as the league's Chairman and Commissioner...
  
  
• Indian Cricket League
  Indian Cricket League
  The Indian Cricket League was a private cricket league funded by Zee Entertainment Enterprises that operated between 2007 and 2009 in India...
  
  
• NKP Salve Challenger Trophy
  NKP Salve Challenger Trophy
  Challenger series is played with the purpose of show-casing the talent that the country has, as well as providing opportunities to younger players to make an impression...
  
  
• Ranji Trophy
  Ranji Trophy
  The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia...
  
  
• Duleep Trophy
  Duleep Trophy
  The Duleep Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket competition played in India between teams representing geographical zones of India. The competition is named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji .-History:...
  
  
• Deodhar Trophy
  Deodhar Trophy
  The current List A cricket competition in Indian domestic cricket is the Deodhar Trophy. It is named after Prof. D. B. Deodhar and is a 50-over knockout competition played on an annual basis among the 5 zonal teams - North Zone, South Zone, East Zone, West Zone and Central Zone...
  
  
• Irani Trophy
  Irani Trophy
  The Irani Cup tournament was conceived during the 1959-60 season to mark the completion of 25 years of the Ranji Trophy championship and was named after the late Z.R. Irani, who was associated with the Board of Control for Cricket in India from its inception in 1928, till his death in 1970...
  
  
• Twenty20 Zonal Competition
• Vijay Hazare Trophy
  Vijay Hazare Trophy
  Vijay Hazare Trophy was started in 2002-03 as a limited-over domestic competition involving state teams from the Ranji Trophy plates. It is named after the famous Indian cricketer Vijay Hazare....
  
  
• Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup

• J2C League A http://www.cricket.or.jp/eng/match.php
• J2C League B
• J1C
• J2C
• Women's Tournament
• Women's League
• Japan Korea 06
• Univ. Satellite
• Univ. (Men)
• Univ. (Women)

• National League http://www.cricket.com.np/
• 2 Day National League
• National Twenty20 League
• U-19 National League
• Women Cricket League

• ABN-AMRO Cup National One-day Championship
  ABN-AMRO Cup National One-day Championship
  The ABN-AMRO Cup National One-day Championship, is National One Day cricket tournament of Pakistan, and is contested by teams of two leagues, Gold and Silver.-History:...
  
  
• ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup
  ABN-AMRO Twenty-20 Cup
  The Twenty-20 Cup is a professional league for Twenty20 cricket competition in Pakistan, initiated in 2004 by the Pakistan Cricket Board , and is currently sponsored by Faysal Bank...
  
  
• Nissar Trophy
  Nissar Trophy
  The Mohammad Nissar Trophy is an annual first class cricket competition which takes place in September. It is contested over four days between the most recent winner of the Ranji Trophy from India and Quaid-i-Azam Trophy from Pakistan...
  
  
• Patron's Trophy
  Patron's Trophy
  The Patron's Trophy is a Pakistani first class cricket competition. It was first played in 1960-61 as the Ayub Trophy and remained so for ten years. In 1970-71 it became the BCCP Trophy and two years later it received the title Patron's Trophy....
  
  
• Pentangular Trophy
  Pentangular Trophy
  -History:It was first contested in 1973-74 and later in the decade the competition's name was changed the BCCP Invitation Tournament. In 1980-81 it became the PACO Cup and remained so for a further five seasons. For the rest of the decade the tournament didn't take place and it wasn't until the...
  
  
• Quaid-i-Azam Trophy
  Quaid-i-Azam Trophy
  The Quaid-i-Azam Trophy is the premier first-class domestic cricket competition in Pakistan.-History :Named after Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, the Trophy was introduced in 1953 to help pick the squad for Pakistan's Test tour of England in the forthcoming year...
  
  
• National Premier League

• Stan Nagiah Trophy

• Inter-Provincial Twenty20
  Inter-Provincial Twenty20
  Sri Lankan T20 Premier League is a Twenty 20 domestic Cricket competition in Sri Lanka held by Sri Lanka Cricket. It is a part of the Sri Lankan Premier League. Sri Lanka used to have a Twenty20 Tournament which was conducted from 2004-2008 and was held between the clubs in Sri Lanka...
  
  
• Henry Steele Olcott Memorial Cricket Tournament
  Henry Steele Olcott Memorial Cricket Tournament
  The Henry Steel Olcott Memorial Cricket Tournament is conducted annually among the past cricketers of eight premier Buddhist schools in Sri Lanka in honour of Col. Olcott, the founder of Buddhist education in Sri Lanka...
  
  
• M. J. Gopalan Trophy
  M. J. Gopalan Trophy
  The M. J. Gopalan Trophy is a bi-annual cricket tournament played between Ceylon and Madras . The idea of the competition came about with the starting of a silver jubilee fund in 1952 to celebrate M.J. Gopalan's 25 years as a cricket and hockey player...
  
  
• Premier Limited Overs Tournament
  Premier Limited Overs Tournament
  The Premier Limited Overs Tournament is the main domestic limited overs cricket competition in Sri Lanka. It was established in 1988 and has existed under three different names.-List of winners:Brown's TrophyHatna Trophy...
  
  
• Premier Trophy
  Premier Trophy
  The Premier Trophy is the main domestic first-class cricket competition in Sri Lanka. It was established in 1938 and has existed under a number of different names. Matches before the 1988-89 season are not considered first-class.-List of winners:...
  
  
• Royal-Thomian
  Royal-Thomian
  The Royal–Thomian , the annual cricket match between Royal College, Colombo and S...
  
  

• Alam Steel 4 Nations
• Pro Arch Trophy 2008
• AJCC -Corporate
• Alubond -Premier B

Europe

• County Championship
  County Championship
  The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
  
  
• Friends Provident Trophy
• Pro40
• Twenty20 Cup
  Twenty20 Cup
  The Twenty20 Cup was a cricket competition for English and Welsh county clubs.In 2010, it has been replaced by Friends Provident t20 as the domestic Twenty20 competition.-History:...
  
  
• Second XI Championship
  Second XI Championship
  The Second XI Championship is a season-long cricket competition in England that is competed for by the reserve teams of those county cricket clubs that have first-class status...
  
  
• Benson & Hedges Cup
  Benson & Hedges Cup
  The Benson & Hedges Cup was a one-day cricket competition for first-class counties in England and Wales that was held from 1972 to 2002, one of cricket's longest sponsorship deals....
  
  
• Minor Counties Cricket Championship
  Minor Counties Cricket Championship
  The Minor Counties Cricket Championship is a season-long competition in England that is contested by those county cricket clubs that do not have first-class status...
  
  

• Antalis Cup
• Senior Two Title

• Nachenius Tjeenk Twenty20 Cup http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2004/OTHERS/NL_LOCAL/
• Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond
  Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond
  The Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond is the governing body of cricket in the Netherlands. It was formed in 1883 and received a Royal charter in 1958.-See also:*Dutch cricket team*Dutch women's cricket team...
  
   Cricket Tournament
• First Division
• Transitional Division
• Second Division
• Third Division
• Fourth Division
• Women Premier League
• Two-Day Competition

• Cricket Scotland
  Cricket Scotland
  Cricket Scotland, formerly known as the Scottish Cricket Union, is the governing body of the sport of cricket in Scotland. The body is based at the National Cricket Academy, Edinburgh....
  
   50 Over Competition
• Lloyds TSB Scotland League

• Minor Counties Cricket Championship
  Minor Counties Cricket Championship
  The Minor Counties Cricket Championship is a season-long competition in England that is contested by those county cricket clubs that do not have first-class status...
  
  
• MCCA Knockout Trophy
  MCCA Knockout Trophy
  The Minor Counties Cricket Association Knockout Cup was started in 1983 as a knockout one-day competition for the Minor Counties in English cricket...
  
  

Oceania

• Sheffield Shield
• Ford Ranger One Day Cup
• KFC Twenty20 Big Bash
  KFC Twenty20 Big Bash
  The KFC Twenty20 Big Bash was the domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Australia. The competition was organised by Cricket Australia, and sponsored by fast food chicken outlet KFC. The competition was replaced by the Big Bash League as Australia's domestic Twenty20 competition after the 2010–11...
  
  
• Cricket Australia Cup
• Women's National Cricket League
  Women's National Cricket League
  The Women's National Cricket League is the national competition for women's cricket in Australia.The league competition involves the six member teams playing each other in two 50-over limited-over matches, with the side finishing at the top of the table after the preliminary rounds earning the...
  
  
• Tasmanian Grade Cricket
  Tasmanian Grade Cricket
  Tasmanian Grade Cricket, or the Tasmanian Grade Competition, refers to the hierarchically graded cricket competitions played in Tasmania, Australia...
  
  
• Sydney Grade Cricket
  Sydney Grade Cricket
  Sydney Grade Cricket is a cricket competition played in Sydney, Australia. The competition began in 1893 when a number of clubs, which had been playing for many years on an ad hoc basis, voted to create a formal competition structure....
  
  
• Victorian Premier Cricket
  Victorian Premier Cricket
  Victorian Premier Cricket is the elite club cricket competition in the state of Victoria, administered by Cricket Victoria. Each club fields four teams of adult players and usually play on weekends and public holidays. Matches are played on turf wickets under limited-time rules, with most results...
  
  
• Western Australian Grade Cricket
  Western Australian Grade Cricket
  Grade Cricket in Western Australia refers to the semi-professional cricket league played at a level below the first-class Western Warriors and colts teams. The competition is administered by the Western Australian Cricket Association...
  
  
• CA Under-19 Cup
• CA Under-17 Cup

• Diwarka Prasad Trophy
• Pacific Games

• Pacific Games

• New Zealand first-class cricket championship
• State League
  State League
  The State League is the premier domestic women's one-day cricket competition in New Zealand. The competition was first competed in the 2001–02 season, when it replaced the State Insurance Cup, which had run since 1998–99. It is contested with a ten-match group stage, in which each of...
  
  
• State Twenty20
• State Championship
  State Championship
  New Zealand has had a domestic first-class cricket championship since the 1906–07 season. It is currently known as the Plunket Shield, reintroducing the name used in the early stages for the 2009–10 season.-Plunket Shield:...
  
  
• State Women's Twenty20
• New Zealand limited-overs cricket trophy
• Hawke Cup
  Hawke Cup
  The Hawke Cup is a cricket competition for New Zealand's District Associations. Apart from 1910/11, 1912/13 and 2000/01 the competition has always been on a challenge basis. In order to win the Hawke Cup the challenger must beat the holder on their home ground...
  
  

• Papua New Guinea National Championships http://blogs.cricinfo.com/btw/archives/2008/03/png_national_ch.php
• Elite Super Series Twenty 20
• Elite Super Series 50 Over Competition

• Pacific Games

• Pacific Games

Cycling

Cycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

• National Bicycle League
  National Bicycle League
  The National Bicycle League is a United States based Bicycle Motocross sports sanctioning body originally based in Deerfield Beach, Florida but after several moves it was based in Hilliard, Ohio...
  
   (BMX)
• American Bicycle Association
  American Bicycle Association
  The American Bicycle Association is a United States-based Bicycle Motocross sports governing body in Gilbert, Arizona created by Merl Mennenga and Gene Roden in 1977. It is the largest sanctioning body in the United States concerning BMX. It has tracks in Canada and Mexico as well as in the USA...
  
   (BMX)

International

• UCI World Tour

Football: American

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 and Canadian

Canadian football

Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

• National Football League
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
    (Official Page)
• United Football League  (Official Page)

• Canadian Football League
  Canadian Football League
  The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
  
   (Official Page)

• X-League
  X-League
  The X-League is a professional American football league in Japan. It was founded in 1971 as the Japan American Football League. It changed its name to the X-league in 1997. There are four divisions between which there is promotion and relegation. Teams in the four-tier league are split into...
  
   (Official Page)

Football: Association Football

See also the full List of association football competitions

This section lists a number of leagues regarded as being professional to some degree, although sources are not provided, in-keeping with the other sports leagues listed. A list of football leagues regarded as being fully professional (as per the WP:Athlete guidance) can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Fully professional leagues, and this list is largely sourced.

• Superliga
• First Division
  Albanian First Division
  The Albanian First Division is the second level of association football in Albania. The league was first created with the name Kategoria e Dytë and has also been named Kategoria A2 in recent years....
  
  

• Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1
• Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 2

• Primera División
  Primera División Argentina
  The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...
  
  
• Copa Argentina
• Primera B Nacional
• Primera B Metropolitana
  Primera B Metropolitana
  Primera B Metropolitana is one of two leagues that form the regionalized third level of the Argentine football league system. The other league at level three is the Torneo Argentino A....
  
  
• Primera D
• Primera C

• Premier League
  Armenian Premier League
  The Armenian Premier League is the top football competition in Armenia. From 1936 to 1991, the competition was held as a regional tournament within the USSR. After independence, the Football Federation of Armenia has been the unit in charge. The seasons run from spring to fall...
  
  
• First League
  Armenian First League
  The Armenian First League is currently the second level football competition in Armenia after the Armenian Premier League. The competition exists mostly out of reserve teams of several Premier League clubs, however other teams also participate...
  
  

and

• Hyundai A-League
  A-League
  The A-League is the top Australasian professional football league. Run by Australian governing body Football Federation Australia , it was founded in 2004 following the folding of the National Soccer League and staged its inaugural season in 2005–06. It is sponsored by Hyundai Motor Company...
  
  

• Bundesliga
  Austrian Bundesliga
  The Austrian Football Bundesliga is the highest-ranking national league club competition in Austrian football. It is the competition which decides the Austrian national football champions, as well the country's entrants for the various European cups run by UEFA.The Austrian Bundesliga, which began...
  
  
• Erste Liga
  Austrian Football First League
  The Austrian Football First League is the second highest professional division in Austrian football. It contains 10 teams and is run in the same fashion as the Austrian Bundesliga...
  
  

• Premyer Liqası
  Azerbaijan Premier League
  -Attendance:- Records :Players in the Premier League compete for the Azerbaijan Premier League Golden Boot, awarded to the top scorer at the end of each season. Nazim Aliyev is the league's all-time top scorer with 183 goals, including 39 in the 1992 season.During the 1995–96 season he became the...
  
  
• First Division
  Azerbaijan First Division
  The Azerbaijan First Division is the second highest professional division in Azerbaijani professional football. The division is run by AFFA.-History:...
  
  

• Bangladesh League

• Vysshaya Liga
  Belarusian Premier League
  -Soviet era champions:*1934 BVO *1935 BVO *1936 BVO *1937 Dinamo *1938 Dinamo *1939 Dinamo *1940 DKA *1941-44 unknown...
  
  
• First League
  Belarusian First League
  The Belarusian First League is the second division of professional football in Belarus. There are 16 teams in the competition. At the end of the season the winner gets promoted to Belarusian Premier League and runner-up advances to the promotion play-offs, while two lowest-placed teams get...
  
  

• Pro League
• Second Division
  Belgian Second Division
  The Belgian Second Division is the second-highest division in the Belgian football league system after the Belgian Pro League. It was created by the Belgian Football Association in 1905. Between 2008 and 2010 it was named EXQI League after a television channel owned by the league main sponsor,...
  
  

• Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano
  Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano
  -List of champions:*Torneo adecuacion was celebrate to adequate seasons to European style -Titles by team :-List of all-time topscorers:...
  
  

• Premier League
  Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  The Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the top football league in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the country's most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs with last two teams relegated at the end of every season....
  
  

• Série A
  Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
  The Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes da Série A , popularly known as the Brasileirão , is a professional football league at the top of the Brazilian football league system held annually since 1959. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates a system of promotion and relegation with the Série B...
  
  
• Série B
  Campeonato Brasileiro Série B
  The Série B is the second division of Brazilian football. It is played by 20 teams. However, the competition format has changed almost every year since it first occurred, in 1971. In some years, it was not played altogether...
  
  
• Série C
  Campeonato Brasileiro Série C
  The Campeonato Brasileiro Série C is the third division of Brazilian football.Unlike the first and second divisions, the Série C is not played in a double round robin system, arguably because many participating teams lack the financial conditions to travel long distances...
  
  
• Série D
  Campeonato Brasileiro Série D
  The Campeonato Brasileiro Série D is the fourth tier of the Brazilian football, and it was announced by Brazilian Football Confederation on April 9, 2008. Campeonato Brasileiro Série D was formed from the split of Série C, keeping its best 20 clubs and playing double round robin, like the top...
  
  

• A PFG
  Bulgarian A Professional Football Group
  The Bulgarian A Professional Football Group commonly known as A PFG is the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The league is sponsored by Victoria FATA Insurance and therefore is officially known as Victoria A Football Group since 2011...
  
  
• B PFG
  Bulgarian B Professional Football Group
  The Bulgarian B Professional Football Group or simply B PFG is the second level of the Bulgarian football league system, below the A PFG and above the Bulgarian V AFG. The B PFG is formed by two groups, running in parallel , where in each group are participating 10 teams...
  
  

• Primera División
• Primera División B
  Primera B (Chile)
  Primera División B del Fútbol Profesional Chileno is the second level of Chilean football in the Chilean football league system, and is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional....
  
  

• Chinese Super League
  Chinese Super League
  The Chinese Football Association Super League , commonly known as Chinese Super League or CSL, currently known as the Pirelli Chinese Football Association Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the highest tier of professional association football in China, operating under the auspices of the...
  
  
• Chinese Football Association Jia League
  Chinese Football Association Jia League
  The China League One is the second tier professional league for Chinese football clubs. The league is under the auspices of the Chinese Football Association. Above the League One is Chinese Super League....
  
  

• Primera A (Copa Mustang)
• Primera B (Copa Premier)
  Categoría Primera B
  Categoría Primera B, also known as Torneo Postobón for sponsorship reasons, is the second division football league in Colombia. The league is divided into two six-month seasons and into two regional divisions of nine teams where each team plays the region's other eight teams both home and away...
  
  

• Primera División
  Primera División de Costa Rica
  Primera División de Costa Rica is a professional league for association football clubs in Costa Rica. At the top of the Costa Rican league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 12 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Segunda División...
  
  

• Prva HNL
• Druga HNL

• 1. Division
  Cypriot First Division
  The Cypriot Championship First Division is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus. As of 2007 it is sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank and is hence officially known as Marfin Laiki League .-Format:...
  
  
• 2. Division
  Cypriot Second Division
  - Structure :Fourteen clubs compete in the league, playing each other twice, once at home and once away for a total of 26 games per team. The topthree clubs are promoted to the first division and the bottom three are relegated to the third division.- Teams :...
  
  

• Gambrinus Liga
  Gambrinus Liga
  The Gambrinus liga is a Czech professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Czech football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 16 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with the Czech 2. Liga. Seasons run from August to May,...
  
  
• 2. Liga
  Czech 2. Liga
  The 2. liga or Druhá liga is the lower tier of the two professional football leagues in the Czech Republic. The top two teams are promoted to the Gambrinus liga.-Structure:There are 16 clubs in the Czech 2. Liga...
  
  

• Superliga
  Danish Superliga
  The Danish Superliga is the current Danish football championship tournament, and administered by the Danish Football Association. It is the highest association football league in Denmark and is currently contested by 12 teams each year, with 2 teams to be relegated, which proves to be one of the...
  
  
• 1st Division
  Danish 1st Division
  The 1st Division has been the name of the second highest football league in Denmark since 1991. From 1945 to 1991 the 1st Division was the name of the highest level of football in Denmark...
  
  

• Serie A

• Primera División de Fútbol Profesional
  Primera División de Fútbol Profesional
  The Primera División of the ' , more commonly known as La Liga Mayor or La Primera, is the top professional football league in El Salvador. It was established in 1969 and as of 2011 has 10 clubs...
  
  

• Egyptian League

• Premier League
• The Football League
  The Football League
  The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...
  
  , composed of:
  • Football League Championship
    Football League Championship
    The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
    
    
  • Football League One
    Football League One
    Football League One is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system....
    
    
  • Football League Two
    Football League Two
    Football League Two is the third-highest division of The Football League and fourth-highest division overall in the English football league system....
    
    

• Meistriliiga
  Meistriliiga
  Meistriliiga is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football championship. The league was founded in 1991 and the current, 2011 is the league's 21st season...
  
  
• Esiliiga
  Esiliiga
  Esiliiga is the second-top league arranged by the Estonian Football Association. The league format was changed along with the Meistriliiga's, and therefore from the year 2005 consists of ten teams. Esiliiga starts from April and lasts until around the start of November...
  
  

and

• Ligue 1
  Ligue 1
  Ligue 1 , is the French professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's primary football competition and serves as the top division of the French football league system. Ligue 1 is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the other being Ligue 2....
  
  
• Ligue 2
  Ligue 2
  Ligue 2 , formerly known as Division 2, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel , the other being Ligue 1, the country's top football division...
  
  

• Veikkausliiga
  Veikkausliiga
  Veikkausliiga is the premier division of Finnish football, comprising the top 12 clubs of the country. Veikkausliiga is currently ranked as the 28th best league in Europe. Its main sponsor is the Finnish national betting agency Veikkaus, hence the league's name...
  
  
• Ykkönen
  Ykkönen
  Ykkönen is the second highest level of the Finnish football league system , although it is the highest league managed by the Football Association of Finland.-Competition:...
  
  
• Kakkonen
  Kakkonen
  Kakkonen is the third tier of the Finnish football league system.-League structure:Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a...
  
  

• 1st Bundesliga
  Fußball-Bundesliga
  The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
  
  
• 2nd Bundesliga
  2. Fußball-Bundesliga
  - Changes in division set-up :* Number of clubs: currently 18. From 1974 to 1981 there were two conferences, each of 20 teams. In 1981–91 it had 20...
  
  
• 3rd Liga
  3rd Liga
  The 3rd Liga is the third division of football in Germany. The league started with the beginning of the 2008–09 season, when it replaced the Regionalliga as the third tier football league in Germany. In the German football league system, it is positioned between the 2...
  
  

• Umaglesi Liga
  Umaglesi Liga
  The Georgian Top League is the top division of football in Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional Football League of Georgia and Georgian Football Federation. From 1927 to 1989, the competition was held as a regional tournament within the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Pirveli Liga
  Pirveli Liga
  The Pirveli Liga is the Georgian First League, which serves as the second division of professional football in Georgia.-History:The Georgian First League was organized in 1990...
  
  

• Superleague Greece
• Beta Ethniki
  Beta Ethniki
  Football League, former Beta Ethniki, is the second highest professional football league in Greece.-History:In its first years, the system of conduct was very intriguing. It began in 1954 as regional championship, separated in two groups, North and South. Then, the participating teams were the...
  
  

• Liga Nacional de Honduras

• Hong Kong First Division League
  Hong Kong First Division League
  Hong Kong First Division League is the top division football league in Hong Kong which was established in 1908, the oldest in Asia. It does not affiliate to any football leagues in the People's Republic of China.-Competition format:...
  
  

• Soproni Liga
• NB II
  Hungarian National Championship II
  NB II is the second tier of Hungarian football. At the end of the 2004/05 season, the tournament format was changed from one division of 14 teams to two divisions: Keleti and Nyugati , each with 16 teams...
  
  

• I-League
  I-League
  The I-League is an Indian football league for association football clubs. At the top of the Indian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 14 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation of two teams each year with the I-League 2nd Division...
  
  
• I League 2nd Division
• National Football League (India)
  National Football League (India)
  The National Football League was an association football league competition in India between 1996 and 2007 which was organised into three divisions. The league is now transformed into the I-League and continues with that name...
  
   (Defunct)

• Indonesia Super League
• Liga Indonesia Premier Division

• Persian Gulf Cup (Premier League)
• Azadegan League (1st Division)

• Iraq Super League
  Iraq Super League
  Iraqi Premier League is the highest league in the league system of Iraqi football and currently contains the top 20 Iraqi football clubs. It is translated into English as "The Premier League"...
  
  

• Israeli Premier League (Premier League)
• Liga Leumit
  Liga Leumit
  Liga Leumit is the second tier in the Israeli football league system below the Premier League.-Structure:There are 16 clubs in the league. At the end of each season, the lowest-placed team are relegated to Liga Alef while the highest-placed team from Liga Alef are promoted in their place...
  
   (National League)

• Serie A
  Serie A
  Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
  
  
• Serie B
  Serie B
  Serie B, currently named Serie bwin due to sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It is contested by 22 teams and organized by the Lega Serie B since July 2010, after the split of Lega Calcio that previously took care of both the...
  
  
• Lega Pro Prima Divisione
• Lega Pro Seconda Divisione

• J. League Division 1
• J. League Division 2
• Japan Football League
  Japan Football League
  The is the 3rd tier of the Japanese association football league system, following J. League Division 1 and J. League Division 2. Also known as the JFL, it is generally considered as the top amateur league in Japan although in reality it is a semi-professional league as many full-time footballers...
  
  

• Kazakhstan Super League
  Kazakhstan Super League
  The Kazakhstan Premier League is the top division of football in Kazakhstan. The League is controlled by the Football Union of Kazakhstan and was set up in 1992. The League is fed into by the First Division, starting spring and finishing in late fall, making each championship correspond to a...
  
  

• Kuwaiti Premier League
  Kuwaiti Premier League
  The Kuwaiti Premier League is the top division of the Kuwait Football Association league pyramid system. It was created in 1961. Al Arabi holds the best record in the competition, winning it 16 times...
  
  

• Kyrgyzstan League
  Kyrgyzstan League
  Kyrgyzstan League is the top division of the Football Federation of Kyrgyz Republic. It was created in 1992.Teams get relegated to the Kyrgyzstan League Second Level.- Kyrgyzstan League Clubs :*Abdysh-Ata *Alga *FC Alay...
  
  
• Kyrgyzstan League Second Level
  Kyrgyzstan League Second Level
  The Kyrgyzstan League Second Level is the second highest division of Kyrgysztan Football, below the Kyrgyzstan League.-Champions:-References:***-References and notes:...
  
  

• Virsliga
• 1. liga
  Latvian First League
  The Latvian First League is the second tier of football in Latvia and is organised by the Latvian Football Federation. From the 2007 season, the tournament has been known as the Traffic 1. līga, due to its sponsorship by the "Traffic auto advert" advertising company.-Format:There are 14 clubs in...
  
  

• A Lyga
  A Lyga
  The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. It is organized by LFF . League size has varied between 8 and 12 teams over the past few years; for its 2011 season, the league features 12 teams...
  
  
• 1 Lyga
  1 Lyga
  -Participating teams :-2009:-2008:-History:-References:*...
  
  

• National Division
  Luxembourg National Division
  The National Division is the highest football league in Luxembourg. Until 2011, it is to be known as the BGL Ligue, after the Luxembourg Football Federation managed to seal a sponsorship deal with Fortis. Before 2006, it contained twelve teams, but it expanded to fourteen for the 2006-07 season,...
  
  
• Division of Honour
  Luxembourg Division of Honour
  The Division of Honour is the second-level football league in Luxembourg. It lies below the National Division and above the 1. Division.-2011–12 clubs:-References:**...
  
  

• Malaysia Super League
• Malaysia Premier League

• Makedonska Prva Liga
• Makedonska Vtora Liga
  Macedonian Vtora Liga
  The Second Macedonian Football League is the second highest professional football competition in the Republic of Macedonia.The competition is contested by 14 clubs, playing each other 2 times over 26 rounds...
  
  

• Primera División
  Primera División de México
  The Primera División Profesional , known simply as the Primera División, is the top level of the Mexican football league system and is administered by the Mexican Football Federation. It was established in 1943 and as of 2011 has 18 clubs. Up to June 2011, it was divided into three groups competing...
  
  
• Liga de Ascenso
  Liga de Ascenso
  The Liga de Ascenso is the second professional level of the Mexican football league system. The champion of the competition is promoted to the Primera División de México ....
  
  
• Segunda División
• Tercera División
  Tercera División de México
  Tercera División is Mexico's fourth tier in the Mexican League System. The Tercera División is divided into 15 groups. For the 2009/2010 season, the format of the tournament has been reorganized to a home and away format, which all teams will play in their respected group...
  
  

• Divizia Naţională

• Montenegrin First League
  Montenegrin First League
  The First League of Montenegro is the top football league in Montenegro. It is headed by the Football Association of Montenegro. 12 teams participate in this league. The winner of the Montenegrin First League starts the qualifications for the UEFA Champions League from the second round...
  
  
• Montenegrin Second League
  Montenegrin Second League
  The Second League of Montenegro is the second top football league in Montenegro. It is headed by the Football Association of Montenegro.12 teams participate in this league...
  
  

• Eredivisie
  Eredivisie
  The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
  
  
• Eerste Divisie
  Eerste Divisie
  The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
  
  

• IFA Premiership
  IFA Premiership
  The IFA Premiership – formerly the Irish Premier League, and before that the Irish Football League–and still known in popular parlance simply as the Irish League, is the national football league in Northern Ireland, and was historically the league for the whole of Ireland. Clubs in the league are...
  
  
• IFA Championship

• Tippeligaen
  Norwegian Premier League
  Tippeligaen is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league is also unofficially known under its neutral name Eliteserien , although the name has never been official...
  
   (top level)
• Adeccoligaen
  Adeccoligaen
  The Norwegian First Division is the second highest division of the Norwegian football league system. Since 2005, the official name of the league has been Adeccoligaen....
  
   (second level)

• Geo Super Football League
  Geo Super Football League
  The Geo Super Football League or SFL is the first proper professional inter-city football league of Pakistan, with the support of the PFF. It was established in 2007 and is the first time that Pakistani club football matches are telecast live on television via GEO Super...
  
  
• Pakistan Premier League
  Pakistan Premier League
  The Pakistan Premier League is the first division of Pakistani football. It was established in 2004, in place of the National Championship by the Pakistan Football Federation.-Origins:...
  
  

• Primera División

• Primera División
  Primera División Peruana
  The Peruvian Primera División is the top professional division of Peruvian football. It is known today as Torneo Descentralizado de Fútbol Profesional Peruano...
  
  

• Ekstraklasa
• First League
  Polish First League
  I Liga is the second level of the Polish association football league, below the Ekstraklasa and above the II Liga. Run by the Polish Football Association since its inception in 1948, all teams from 2002 onwards must have professional status and a licence, issued by the Association...
  
  

• Primeira Liga
• Liga de Honra
  Liga de Honra
  The Liga de Honra , known for sponsorship reasons as the Liga Orangina, is the Portuguese second level football league. It was formerly called Segunda Divisão and Segunda Divisão de Honra . When the LPFP took control of the two nationwide levels, it was renamed Segunda Liga, before renaming it...
  
   (second level)

• Qatar National First Division
  Qatar National First Division
  The Qatar Stars League is the highest professional league in Qatari football. There is also a second division league in Qatar.- League Structure :...
  
  

 Republic of Ireland

• League of Ireland Premier Division
• League of Ireland First Division

• Liga I
  Liga I
  Liga I, or in full, due to sponsorship reasons, Liga I Bergenbier, is the top division of the Romanian football league system. Before the 2006/2007 season, it was called Divizia A, but the name had to be changed following the discovery that someone else had registered the trademark "Divizia A"...
  
  
• Liga II
  Liga II
  Liga II is the second tier league of the Romanian football league system. The league acquired this name in the 2006-07, being previously called Divizia B....
  
  

• Russian Premier League
  Russian Premier League
  The Russian Premier League , currently called SOGAZ Russian Football Championship due to sponsorship reasons, is the top division of Russian football. There are 16 teams in the competition...
  
  
• National League Championship
  Football Championship of the National League
  The Football Championship of the National League , formerly called Russian First Division is the second level of Russian professional football....
  
  

• Saudi Premier League
  Saudi Premier League
  The Saudi Professional League, officially known as , is the main football competition in Saudi Arabia. The first competition was held in the year of 1976–77...
  
  

• Scottish Premier League
  Scottish Premier League
  The Scottish Premier League , also known as the SPL , is a professional league competition for association football clubs in Scotland...
  
  
• Scottish First Division
  Scottish Football League First Division
  The Irn-Bru Scottish Football League First Division Championship is the highest division of the Scottish Football League and the second highest in the Scottish football league system....
  
  

• Singapore Professional Football League
  S.League
  The S.League is the top men's professional association football league in Singapore. The league was launched in 1996 and currently involves 12 clubs.-History:...
  
   (S.League)

• Corgoň Liga
• Slovak First League
  Slovak First League
  The Corgoň Liga is the top professional competition of association football in Slovakia.As of the 2011/12 season there are 12 teams competing in the league.-1...
  
  

• 1. SNL
• 2. SNL
  Slovenian Second League
  Slovenian Second Football League is the second highest football league in Slovenia. The league was formed in 1991 with the dissolution of the Yugoslav Second League and it is operated by the Football Association of Slovenia.-Clubs participating 2011/12:...
  
  

• Serbian Superliga
  Serbian Superliga
  Serbian SuperLiga is a Serbian professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Serbian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 16 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with the Serbian First League...
  
  
• Serbian First League
  Serbian First League
  Serbian First League is the name for the second tier in Serbia's football league. The league is operated by the Football Association of Serbia. 18 teams are set to compete in this league for the 2009-10 season...
  
  

• Premier Soccer League
  Premier Soccer League
  Premier Soccer League is the trading name of the National Soccer League of South Africa. The top league is the ABSA Premiership, sponsored by ABSA...
  
  

• Korea Professional Football League
  K-League
  The Korea Professional Football League is South Korea's only fully professional association football league. At the top of the South Korean football league system, it is the country's highest and most prestigious level of football competition currently contested by 16 clubs.-Establishment:The...
  
   (K-League)

• Primera División
  La Liga
  The Primera División of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional , commonly known as La Liga or, for sponsorship reasons, Liga BBVA since 2008, is the top professional association football division of the Spanish football league system...
  
  
• Segunda División
  Segunda División
  The Segunda División is the lower tier of the two professional football leagues in Spain. From the season 2008-09 onwards, the name of the league is Liga Adelante.-History:...
  
  

• Allsvenskan
  Allsvenskan
  Allsvenskan is a Swedish professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Swedish football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Superettan...
  
  
• Superettan
  Superettan
  Superettan is the second highest league in the league system of Swedish football and comprises 16 Swedish football teams. It was created in 2000. Before that, the second level league in Sweden had been Division 1....
  
  

and

• Swiss Super League
  Swiss Super League
  The Swiss Super League or Axpo Super League is the top tier of the Swiss Football League. The Swiss Super League is currently ranked 16th according to UEFA's ranking of league coefficients, which is based upon Swiss team performances in European competitions.-Names:-Participating clubs:The teams...
  
  
• Challenge League
  Challenge League
  The Swiss Challenge League is the second highest tier of the Swiss Football League. Sixteen teams play in the Challenge League. The winners of the league are promoted to the Super League, and the bottom two teams are relegated to the 1. Liga...
  
  

• Syrian League

• Professional Football League
  Professional Football League (Trinidad and Tobago)
  The TT Pro League is a league for professional association football clubs in Trinidad and Tobago. At the top of the Trinidad and Tobago football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The league currently comprises 8 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation...
  
  

• Spor Toto Super League
• TFF First League
  TFF First League
  The TFF First League is the second level of the Turkish football league system. The league was founded in 2000 after it was separated from the Turkish Second League Category B during reorganizing Second League, who was second level of Turkish league between 1963–2001...
  
  

• Ukrainian Premier League
  Ukrainian Premier League
  The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Supreme League it was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Vysshaya Liga. In 2008 it was reformed into a more autonomous entity of the Football Federation of Ukraine and changed...
  
  
• Ukrainian First League
  Ukrainian First League
  The Persha Liha or Ukrainian First League is a football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup...
  
  

• Primera División
  Primera División Uruguaya
  The Liga Profesional de Primera División , also known as the Primera División Uruguaya or Primera División de Uruguay , is a professional football league in Uruguay at the top of the country's football league system. It is organized by the Uruguayan Football Association and is contested by 16 teams...
  
  

• UAE League
  UAE League
  The UAE Pro League Committee , commonly known as PLC, is the professional association football league of the United Arab Emirates. Founded in 1973, the league currently holds a number of tournaments for the 12 participating teams, including the Etisalat Pro-League, the Etisalat Cup, Etisalat...
  
  

, , , ,

• Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
  
   (MLS) (US and Canada – premier league)
• North American Soccer League (US, Canada, Puerto Rico; launched in 2011)
• USL Pro
  USL Pro
  The USL Professional Division, commonly known as USL Pro , is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011....
  
   (US and Antigua and Barbuda; launched in 2011)

• Uzbek League
  Uzbek League
  The Uzbekistan Professional Football League , is the top division of football in Uzbekistan, and is operated under the auspices of the Uzbekistan Football Federation.-Soviet time champions:*1926 : FC Tashkent*1927 : FC Tashkent*1928 : FC Fergana...
  
  

• Primera División
  Primera División Venezolana
  The Primera División , or Liga Venezolana is the top-flight professional football league of Venezuela. It was created in 1921 and turned professional in 1957...
  
  
• Segunda División
  Venezuelan Segunda División
  Segunda División is the second tier of the Federación Venezolana de Fútbol league system.The Venezuelan second division was established in 1979.-List of champions:-External links:*...
  
  

• V-League
  V-League
  The number of foreign players is restricted to five per team. A team could use three foreigners on the field each game.As 2009 statistics, about half of V-League foreign players are Brazilian and the rest come from Argentina, Nigeria, Ghana, Czech Republic, Thailand and others.-Attendance:V-League...
  
   (First Level)
• Vietnam First Division
  Vietnam First Division
  The Vietnamese First Division is the second tier league in Vietnamese football, after the V-League, with 14 teams competing.- Format :The league comprises 14 teams. Over the course of a season, each team plays twice against the others in the league, once at 'home' and once 'away', resulting in each...
  
   (Second Level)
• Vietnam Second Division
  Vietnam Second Division
  The Vietnam Second Division which has 18 teams, both professional and semi-professional, is divided into 3 groups with 6 teams by geographical place....
  
   (Third Level)

Cups

• Vietnamese Cup
  Vietnamese Cup
  The Vietnamese Cup is an annual soccer competition in Vietnam. It is one of the three major Vietnamese clubs competitions held by the Vietnam Football Federation , and has existed since 1992- Past results :-See also:* Football in Vietnam...
  
  
• Vietnamese Super Cup
  Vietnamese Super Cup
  The Vietnamese Super Cup was an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's V-League and Vietnamese Cup competitions.-Past winners:*1999 - The Cong*2000 - Sông Lam Nghệ An*2001 - Sông Lam Nghệ An*2002 - Sông Lam Nghệ An...
  
  

• Welsh Premier League

Football: Futsal

Futsal

Futsal is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller pitch and mainly played indoors. Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol de salón , which can be translated as "hall football" or "indoor football"...

• Division de Honor Argentina

• Liga Futsal
  Liga Futsal
  The Liga Futsal is the premier futsal league in Brazil, and was created in 1996 with the purpose of setting up a championship with the best futsal teams of the country, corresponding to the Brazilian Football Championship Série A...
  
  

• Indonesian Futsal League
  Indonesian Futsal League
  Indonesian Futsal League is the official main competition for professional futsal clubs in Indonesia...
  
  

• Serie A1
  Serie A1 (Futsal)
  Serie A1 is the premier professional futsal league in Italy. It was founded in 1983. The league, which is played under UEFA rules, currently consists of 14 teams. It is organized by Divisione Calcio a 5.- Champions :-Performance by club:...
  
  

• Kyrgyzstan Futsal League
  Kyrgyzstan Futsal League
  -Champions:-References:...
  
  

• F. League
  F. League
  The F. League is the top league for Futsal in Japan. The winning team obtains the participation right to the AFC Futsal Club Championship.- Overview:...
  
  

• FK-League
  FK-League
  The FK-League is the top league for futsal clubs in South Korea. It is organized by Korea Futsal League from 2010-11 season.-Clubs:* Jeonju MAG FC* FS Seoul* Seoul Gwangjin FC* Yes Gumi FC* Yongin FS-List of champions:-External Links:*...
  
  

• Portuguese Futsal First Division
  Portuguese Futsal First Division
  Portuguese Futsal First Division or "1ª Divisão de Futsal" is the premier professional futsal league in Portugal.-Teams 2008/2009:* CF Belenenses* FJ Antunes* SL Benfica* AR Freixieiro* AD Fundão* Instituto D...
  
  

• División de Honor Spain
  División de Honor de Futsal
  The Primera División or División de Honor of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Sala, is the premier professional futsal league in Spain. It was founded in 1989 with the name of División de Honor...
  
  

• Russian Futsal Super League

• Turkish Futsal Championship

• Uzbekistan Futsal League
  Uzbekistan Futsal League
  -Champions:-Champions Women:2005:Sevinch Qarshi2006:Sevinch Qarshi2007:Sevinch Qarshi2008:Sevinch Qarshi Andijanka Andijan Stroitel Zarafshan2009:2010:...
  
  

Football: Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

• Australian Football League
  Australian Football League
  The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
  
   (Official Page)

Top-level tours

• PGA TOUR
  PGA Tour
  The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
  
   (United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  )
• European Tour
• Japan Golf Tour
  Japan Golf Tour
  The Japan Golf Tour is a prominent golf tour. It was founded in 1973 and as of 2006 it offers the third highest annual prize fund out of the regular men's professional tours after the PGA Tour and the European Tour. However since the early 1990s, the growth in prize money has not kept pace with...
  
  
• Asian Tour
  Asian Tour
  The Asian Tour is the principal men's professional golf tour in Asia except for Japan, which has its own Japan Golf Tour, which is also a full member of the International Federation of PGA Tours. The Asian Tour is administered from offices in Singapore...
  
   (Asia outside Japan)
• PGA Tour of Australasia
  PGA Tour of Australasia
  The PGA Tour of Australasia is a professional golf tour for men. Official events on the tour count for World Golf Ranking points. The tour was formed in 1973 as the PGA Tour of Australia and adopted its current name in 1991....
  
   (Australia and New Zealand)
• Sunshine Tour
  Sunshine Tour
  The Sunshine Tour is a men's professional golf tour based in Southern Africa. For much of its history it was known either as the South African Tour or the FNB Tour, but it rebranded itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal...
  
   (southern Africa, mainly South Africa)
• Canadian Professional Golf Tour
  Canadian Professional Golf Tour
  The Canadian Professional Golf Tour is a men's professional golf tour headquartered in Oakville, Ontario. It was formally started in 1970 and was initially known as the Peter Jackson Tour....
  
  
• OneAsia Tour
  OneAsia Tour
  OneAsia is a men's professional golf tour based in the Asia-Pacific region. The tour was founded in 2009 as a joint venture between the PGA Tour of Australasia, the China Golf Association, the Korean Golf Association and the Korean PGA. The Japan Golf Tour has been invited to participate in the...
  
   (joint venture between the Japan, Australasia, China, and Korean tours)

Developmental tours

• Nationwide Tour
  Nationwide Tour
  The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...
  
   (second-tier US tour, operated by the PGA TOUR)
• Challenge Tour
  Challenge Tour
  The Challenge Tour is the second tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European Tour and as with on the main European Tour and the European Seniors Tour, some of the events are played outside of Europe...
  
   (second-tier European tour)
• Japan Challenge Tour
  Japan Challenge Tour
  The Japan Challenge Tour is a series of developmental golf tournaments run by the Japan Golf Tour Organisation. It has been in operation since 1985...
  
   (second-tier Japanese tour)
• Satellite Tour, a group of four third-level tours recognised by the European Tour:
  • Alps Tour
    Alps Tour
    The Alps Tour is a developmental professional golf tour for men which is sanctioned by the national golf associations of France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Morocco. It is a third level tour, the highest level of men's golf in Europe being the European Tour, and the second level being the...
    
     (jointly sanctioned by the golf associations of Austria, France, Italy, Morocco and Switzerland)
  • EPD Tour
    EPD Tour
    The EPD Tour is a developmental professional golf tour based in Germany. It is a third level tour, the highest level of men's golf in Europe being the European Tour, and the second level being the Challenge Tour...
    
     (based in Germany)
  • Nordic League
    Nordic League (golf)
    The Nordic League is one of the four PGA European Tour-recognised third-tier men's professional golf tours that are collectively known as the Satellite Tour...
    
     (operating in the Nordic countries)
    • SAS Masters Tour (men's version is a Swedish tour included in the Nordic League competition)
  • PGA EuroPro Tour
    PGA EuroPro Tour
    The PGA EuroPro Tour is a men's developmental professional golf tour. It was created in 2002 by the merger of two older development tours, the EuroPro Tour and the PGA Mastercard Tour. It is based mainly in the United Kingdom, with a few events in other countries...
    
     (based in the UK)
• Gateway Tour
  Gateway Tour
  The Gateway Tour is a third-level men's professional golf tour headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona that runs tournaments in Arizona, California, and Florida. The top level of men's professional golf in the United States is the PGA Tour. The second level is the Nationwide Tour, which is the official...
  
   (third-tier US tour)
• Minor League Golf Tour
  Minor League Golf Tour
  The Fuzion Minor League Golf Tour is a developmental professional golf tour headquartered in Jupiter, Florida that runs tournaments year-round in south Florida....
  
   (low cost fourth-tier US tour)
• NGA Pro Golf Tour
  NGA Pro Golf Tour
  The National Golf Association Pro Golf Tour is a developmental men's professional golf tour in the United States. It includes approximately twenty 72-hole Pro Series events and three 54-hole Qualifying School Prep Series events each year throughout the US South and Midwest. The NGA Pro Golf Tour...
  
   (third-tier US tour)

Top-level tours

• LPGA
  LPGA
  The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters is in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from...
  
   (Ladies Professional Golf Association; United States)
• LPGA of Japan Tour
  LPGA of Japan Tour
  The Japan LPGA Tour is a professional golf tour for women organised by the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association of Japan. It is the second richest women's golf tour in the world. The U.S.-based LPGA Tour is the most important women's tour, but the prize money gap has closed markedly since the...
  
  
• Ladies European Tour
  Ladies European Tour
  The Ladies European Tour is a professional golf tour for women which was founded in 1979. It is based in England. Like many UK-based sports organisations it is a company limited by guarantee, a legal structure which enables it to focus on maximising returns to its members through prize money,...
  
  
• LPGA of Korea Tour
  LPGA of Korea Tour
  The LPGA of Korea Tour is a South Korean professional golf tour for women. LPGA stands for Ladies Professional Golf Association; it is the independent LPGA of Korea which runs this tour, not the American LPGA...
  
   (South Korea)
• Ladies Asian Golf Tour
  Ladies Asian Golf Tour
  The Ladies Asian Golf Tour is a women's professional golf tour that was established in 2005. At that time there were five established women's professional tours in the world, of which two were in Asia, namely the LPGA of Japan Tour and the LPGA of Korea Tour. Japan and South Korea are two of the...
  
   (Asia outside of Japan and Korea)
• ALPG Tour
  ALPG Tour
  The ALPG Tour is a professional golf tour for women which is based in Australia. ALPG stands for "Australian Ladies Professional Golf".The ALPG was founded as the Ladies Professional Golf Association of Australia in 1972, and switched to its current name in 1991. The first events featured twelve...
  
   (Australia)

Developmental tours

• FUTURES Tour
  FUTURES Tour
  The LPGA Futures Tour, previously styled in uppercase as FUTURES Tour and known for sponsorship reasons between 2006 and 2010 as the Duramed FUTURES Tour, is the official developmental golf tour of the LPGA Tour...
  
   (second-tier US tour, operated by the LPGA)
• Step Up Tour (second-tier Japanese tour, operated by the LPGA of Japan)
• SAS Masters Tour (women's version is a second-tier tour in Sweden, feeding to the Ladies European Tour)

Team Handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

• Danish Handball League
  Danish Handball League
  The Danish Handball League, officially known as Jack & Jones Ligaen due to sponsorship reasons, is the men's top Danish professional handball league. The winners of the Danish Handball League are recognised as the Danish handball champions...
  
  
• German Bundesliga (handball)
  Bundesliga (handball)
  The Handball-Bundesliga is the top German professional handball league. The league has been sponsored by Toyota since 2007 and therefore the league is called the Toyota Handball-Bundesliga...
  
  
• Liga ASOBAL (Spain)
• Championnat de France de handball
• Iranian Handball Super League (Iran)

Ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

Americas
and

• National Hockey League
  National Hockey League
  The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
  
   (major)
• American Hockey League
  American Hockey League
  The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...
  
   (high minor)
• ECHL
  ECHL
  The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey with teams scattered across the United States...
  
   (mid-minor)

only

• Central Hockey League
  Central Hockey League
  The Central Hockey League is a mid-level professional hockey league, owned by Global Entertainment Corporation. Its current champions are the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs, which defeated the Colorado Eagles four games to three in the 2011 playoffs....
  
   (mid-minor)
• Southern Professional Hockey League
  Southern Professional Hockey League
  The Southern Professional Hockey League is a low-level professional ice hockey league based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with teams located in the southeastern United States.- History :...
  
   (low minor)
• United Hockey League
  United Hockey League
  The United Hockey League was a low-level professional ice hockey league , with teams in the United States...
  
   (low minor)

Asia
, , and

• Asia League Ice Hockey
  Asia League Ice Hockey
  Asia League Ice Hockey is an association which operates a professional ice hockey league based in East Asia, with seven teams from Japan, China, and South Korea. The league is headquartered in Japan...
  
  

• Kazakhstani Championship
  Kazakhstani Championship
  The Kazakhstani Championship is the name of the top tier of professional ice hockey in Kazakhstan.There are 2 Hockey teams in Kazakhstan competing outside of this championship: Barys Astana competing in the KHL and Kaztsink-Torpedo in the Russian Major League. Their farm/second teams compete in...
  
  

Eurasia
, , , , and

• Kontinental Hockey League
  Kontinental Hockey League
  The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
  
   (major)

only

• Russian Major League (high minor)
• Russian Hockey League (low minor)

• Turkish Ice Hockey Super League
  Turkish Ice Hockey Super League
  The Turkish Ice Hockey Super League is the highest level of ice hockey in Turkey. It is operated under the jurisdiction of the Turkish Ice Hockey Federation, a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. Unlike the National Hockey League, the Super League is not divided into conferences;...
  
  

Europe

• Erste Bank Eishockey Liga

and

• Belarusian Extraleague

• Tipsport Extraliga

• Ligue Magnus
  Ligue Magnus
  -Former Teams:*Bisons de Neuilly-sur-Marne*Orques d'Anglet*Sangliers Arvernes*Corsaires de Dunkerque*Albatros de Brest*Jets de Viry-Essonne-Defunct Teams:*Diables Noirs de Tours*Hockey Club de Mulhouse*Séquanes de Besançon*Flammes Bleues de Reims...
  
  

• SM-liiga
  SM-liiga
  The SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice...
  
  

• Deutsche Eishockey Liga

and

• MOL Liga
  MOL Liga
  The MOL Liga is an international ice hockey league based in Hungary and Romania and sponsored by the Hungarian MOL Group.The games played between the Hungarian teams count towards the Hungarian National Championship in the OB I bajnokság...
  
  

• Serie A

• Latvian Hockey League
  Latvian Hockey League
  The Latvian Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league based in Latvia. It is also known in Latvian as Latvijas atklātais čempionāts hokejā ....
  
  

• Lithuania Hockey League
  Lithuania Hockey League
  -Group A:*SC Energija *SM Poseidonas *Sporto Centras *Kaliningrad Pioner -Group B:*Sparnai *LRK Kėdainiai *LRK Panevėžys *Sūduva *Velniai...
  
  

and

• Eredivisie

• GET-ligaen
  GET-ligaen
  GET-ligaen is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation. The league was known as 1. divisjon until 1990, when it was reorganized and named Eliteserien . That name was held until 2004 when cable TV company UPC became main sponsor...
  
  

• Polska Liga Hokejowa
  Polska Liga Hokejowa
  The Polish Hockey Superleague is the premier ice hockey league in Poland.-Teams 2010-11 season:*Aksam Unia Oswiecim*Akuna Naprzod Janow*Ciarko KH Sanok*Comarch Cracovia*GKS Tychy*JKH GKS Jastrzebie...
  
  

• Slovnaft Extraliga

• Nationalliga A

• Elitserien
  Elitserien
  Elitserien, is a professional ice hockey league composed of twelve teams in Sweden...
  
  

• Professional Hockey League

• Elite Ice Hockey League
  Elite Ice Hockey League
  Several competitions fall under the jurisdiction of the Elite League. In 2006–07, the EIHL ran a total of four competitions: the league, playoffs, Challenge Cup and Knockout Cup. The league consists of a single division, each team playing three home games and three away games against the other...
  
  

Inline hockey

Inline hockey

Inline hockey, often referred to as roller hockey in the United States, is a sport similar to ice hockey but played with inline skates. Like its parent sport, skaters on two teams use hockey sticks to direct a disk-shaped puck into the opponent's goal; however, various details of the game, such as...

• Ligue Elite
  Ligue Elite
  The Ligue Elite is the top professional inline hockey league in France. The Championnat de France is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season.-Game:...
  
   (France)
• Major League Roller Hockey
  Major League Roller Hockey
  Major League Roller Hockey is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a professional inline hockey league of 15 franchised member clubs, all of which are located in the United States. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, MLRH is the only full contact professional inline...
  
   (United States)
• Professional Inline Hockey Association
  Professional Inline Hockey Association
  The Professional Inline Hockey Association, often abbreviated to the PIHA, is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates an elite inline hockey league of 16 franchised member clubs, all of which are located in the United States. Headquartered in Middletown, Pennsylvania, the PIHA...
  
   (United States)

Box / Indoor lacrosse

Box lacrosse

Box lacrosse, also known as indoor lacrosse and sometimes shortened to boxla, LAX or simply box, is an indoor version of lacrosse played mostly in North America. The game originated in Canada, where it is the most popular version of the game played in contrast to the traditional field lacrosse game...

• NLL - National Lacrosse League
  National Lacrosse League
  The National Lacrosse League is a men's professional indoor lacrosse league in North America. It currently has nine teams; three in Canada and six in the United States. Unlike other lacrosse leagues which play in the summer, the NLL plays its games in the winter and spring. Each year, the playoff...
  
   (United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   and Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  )
• MSL - Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse
  Major Series Lacrosse is a Senior A box lacrosse league based out of Ontario, Canada sanctioned by the Ontario Lacrosse Association. Most of the players in the league play or have played in the National Lacrosse League. Each year, the playoff teams battle for the right to compete against the...
  
   (Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  )

Field lacrosse

• MLL - Major League Lacrosse
  Major League Lacrosse
  Major League Lacrosse, or MLL, is a professional men's field lacrosse league that is made up of five teams in the United States and one team in Canada.- History :...
  
   (United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   and Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  )

Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

United States: Ultimate Fighting Championship

Ultimate Fighting Championship

The Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world that hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport...

 (Premier American/International Organization) United States: Strikeforce

Strikeforce

Strikeforce is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts and kickboxing organization based in San Jose, California. It is headed by CEO Scott Coker and owned by Zuffa, LLC...

 (Second Tier American Organization) United States: Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships

Bellator Fighting Championships is a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. "Bellator", which is Latin for "Warrior", is organized into seasons with each event hosting the rounds of championship knockout tournaments for three-five weight divisions.-History:In its first season,...

 (Minor American Organization) United States: King of the Cage

King of the Cage

King of the Cage, also known as KOTC, is a mixed martial arts promotion based in Southern California, USA.-History:KOTC was founded in 1998 by Terry Trebilcock. KOTC features up and coming MMA stars as well as experienced combat fighters....

 (Minor American Organization) United States: Shark Fights

Shark Fights

Shark Fights is a Mixed Martial Arts promotion based out of Amarillo, Texas. It made its debut on October 24, 2008. On September 11, 2010 Shark Fights had its biggest card in Shark Fights history by having former UFC veterans Keith Jardine, Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou, Paul Daley, and Houston...

 (Minor American Organization) United States: Titan Fighting Championships

Titan Fighting Championships

Titan Fighting Championships is a Mixed Martial Arts promotion based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. It made its debut on July 11, 2011. On January 28, 2011 Titan Fighting Championships made its debut on HDNet with their best card yet, featuring Tim Sylvia vs. Abe Wagner in the main event at Titan...

 (Minor American Organization) United States: Tachi Palace Fights

Tachi Palace Fights

Tachi Palace Fights is an American mixed martial arts promotion which hosts events at the Tachi Palace Hotel & Casino in Lemoore, California...

 (Minor American Organization) Japan: DREAM

DREAM (mixed martial arts)

Dream is a mixed martial arts organization promoted by former PRIDE FC executives and K-1 promoter Fighting and Entertainment Group. DREAM replaced FEG's previous-run mixed martial arts fight series, Hero's. The series retains many of the stylistic flourishes and personnel from Pride FC...

 (Premier Japanese Organization) Japan: Shooto

Shooto

Shooto is a mixed martial arts organization that is governed by the Shooto Association and the International Shooto Commission. Shooto was originally formed in 1985, as an organization and as a particular fighting system derived from shoot wrestling. Practitioners are referred to as shooters,...

 (Second Tier Japanese Organization) Japan: Pancrase

Pancrase

Pancrase is a mixed martial arts promotion company founded in Japan in 1993 by professional wrestlers Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki. Pancrase is taken from Pankration, a sport in the ancient Olympic games. Suzuki and Funaki are particularly skilled in the art of catch wrestling and based the...

 (Minor Japanese Organization) Japan: DEEP (Minor Japanese Organization) Japan: ZST

ZST

ZST is a Japan-based promoting and sanctioning organization of mixed martial arts, and it also holds amateur MMA events. ZST adopts unique rules in the MMA industry. Much like RINGS, strikes to head on the ground are prohibited...

 (Minor Japanese Organization) Japan: Cage Force (Minor Japanese Organization) Japan: RisingOn

RisingOn

RisingOn is a name of mixed martial arts events promoted by Versus.Co.,Ltd., a Japanese private company. Atsushi Tanabe serves a manager of Versus. The events of RisingOn are mainly held in Kansai area.-Powergate:Versus.Co., Ltd...

 (Minor Japanese Organization) Japan: HEAT (Minor Japanese Organization) Japan: Gladiator (Minor Japanese Organization) Brazil: Jungle Fight Championship

Jungle Fight Championship

Jungle Fight is a Brazilian mixed martial arts promotion. It was created in 2003. The name is derived from its origin, the Amazonas state in Brazil.-History:...

 (Premier Brazilian Organization) Mexico: Combate Extremo (Premier Mexican Organization) Russia: M-1 Global

M-1 Global

M-1 Global is the mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia - The Netherlands which organizes between 40 and 50 competitions per year...

 (Premier Russian-based Organization) Canada: Maximum Fighting Championship (Premier Canadian Organization) England: BAMMA

BAMMA

The British Association of Mixed Martial Arts is a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United Kingdom. It is considered by many as the biggest MMA promotion in the country. It premièred on June 27, 2009 and was shown on the television channel Bravo...

 (Premier English Organization) Netherlands: United Glory

United Glory

United Glory, formerly known as Ultimate Glory, is a Dutch-based kickboxing and mixed martial arts promotion affiliated with the Golden Glory gym.-History:...

 (Premier Dutch Organization) Sweden: Superior Challenge

Superior Challenge

- Events :-Current champions:...

 (Premier Swedish Organization) Poland: Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki

Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki

Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki, better known by its acronym, KSW, is widely considered to be the premiere mixed martial arts organization in Poland and one of the leading promotions in Europe. To date, most events have been hosted in Warsaw, Poland...

 (Premier Polish Organization) Finland: Finnfight

Finnfight

Finnfight or Scandinavian open NHB Championships is an annual mixed martial arts competition in Turku, Finland. Contrary to most other mixed martial arts organizations and competitions, elbow strikes, knee strikes and headbutts from any position are legal.The first Finnfight event, FINNFIGHT 1,...

 (Premier Finish Organization) United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi Fighting Championship

Abu Dhabi Fighting Championship

is a mixed martial arts event initiated in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The promotion was initiated and organized by , a leading event management company in the region....

 (Premier Emirati/MENA

MENA

The term MENA, for "Middle East and North Africa", is an acronym often used in academic, military planning and business writing.The term covers an extensive region, extending from Morocco to Iran, including the majority of both the Middle Eastern and Maghreb countries...

 Organization) China: Art of War Fighting Championship

Art of War Fighting Championship

The Art of War Fighting Championship is the primary Chinese professional mixed martial arts promotion based in Beijing, China. The Chinese title "英雄榜" literally translated means "Gathering of Heroes." Art of War FC has no relation to the defunct US MMA promotion Art of War Undisputed Arena...

 (Premier Chinese Organization) Hong Kong: Legend Fighting Championship

Legend Fighting Championship

Legend Fighting Championship is a Hong Kong-based mixed martial arts organization which invites national champion fighters from throughout the Asia-Pacific to compete for regional supremacy...

 (Premier Hong Konger Organization) South Korea: Road FC (Premier Korean Organization) Guam: Pacific Xtreme Combat

Pacific Xtreme Combat

Pacific Xtreme Combat also known as PXC, is the primer Guamanian mixed martial arts organization and one of two primer MMA promotions in the oceanic islands...

 (Premier Guamanian Organization) Philippines: Universal Reality Combat Championship

Universal Reality Combat Championship

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 (Premier Filipino Organization) South Africa: Extreme Fighting Championship Africa (Premier South African Organization)

Motorcycle racing

Motorcycle racing

Motorcycle sport is a broad field that encompasses all sporting aspects of motorcycling. The disciplines are not all "races" or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitor's various riding skills.-Motorcycle racing:...

• MotoGP
  Grand Prix motorcycle racing
  Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing currently divided into three distinct classes: 125cc, Moto2 and MotoGP. The 125cc class uses a two-stroke engine while Moto2 and MotoGP use four-stroke engines. In 2010 the 250cc two-stroke was replaced...
  
  
• Superbike World Championship
  Superbike World Championship
  Superbike World Championship is the worldwide Superbike racing Championship. The championship was founded in . The Superbike World Championship season consists of a series of rounds held on permanent racing facilities...
  
  
• AMA Superbike Championship

Speedway

Motorcycle speedway

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: Ekstraliga: Danish Speedway League

Danish Speedway League

The Danish Speedway League is the top division of motorcycle speedway in Denmark.- 2008 season :The 2008 season was won by Slangerup; they beat Esbjerg and Holsted.- 2009 season :- See also :* Sports in Denmark...

: Bundesliga:

• • Speedway Ekstraliga
    Speedway Ekstraliga
    The Speedway Ekstraliga is the top division of speedway in Poland. It has been called the "richest and most popular speedway league in the world" and attracts riders from all over the world...
    
    
  • Pierwsza Liga (1st League)
  • Druga Liga (2nd League):
  • Elitserien
    Elitserien (speedway)
    Elitserien is the highest league in the league system of speedway in Sweden and currently comprises the top 9 Swedish speedway teams. The first season began in 1982...
    
    
  • Allsvenskan:
  • Sky Sports Elite League
    Speedway Elite League
    The Elite League is the top division of Speedway league competition in the United Kingdom and is governed by the Speedway Control Bureau , in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association . It is sponsored by Sky Sports...
    
    
  • Premier League
    Speedway Premier League
    The Premier League is the second division of Speedway in the United Kingdom and goverened by the Speedway Control Board , in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association . The Premier League was founded in 1995 when it replaced the British League as the first division...
    
    
  • Conference League
    Speedway Conference League
    The Conference League was the third and lowest division of motorcycle speedway racing in the United Kingdom governed by the Speedway Control Board , in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association . The other leagues being the Elite League and Premier League. The League consisted of...
    
    

Rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

• National Rugby League
  National Rugby League
  The National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...
  
   (also includes New Zealand Warriors
  New Zealand Warriors
  The New Zealand Warriors are a professional rugby league football club based in Auckland, New Zealand. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership and are the League's only team from outside Australia...
  
  )
• Queensland Cup
  Queensland Cup
  The Queensland Cup is the premier rugby league football competition in the State of Queensland, Australia.It is a statewide competition with the majority of teams based in South East Queensland but also including sides based in Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton.The competition began in 1996 as a...
  
  
• New South Wales Cup
• Jim Beam Cup

• French elite championship
  French rugby league championship
  The French rugby league championship has been the major rugby league tournament for semi-professional and professional clubs in France and Monaco since the sport was introduced to the country in the thirties....
  
  

• Super League
  Super League
  Super League is the top-level professional rugby league football club competition in Europe. As a result of sponsorship from engage Mutual Assurance the competition is currently officially known as the engage Super League. The League features fourteen teams: thirteen from England and one from...
  
   (also includes Catalans Dragons
  Catalans Dragons
  The Catalans Dragons are a French professional rugby league club based in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales. They currently play in the Super League, and are the only team in the competition from outside of the United Kingdom...
  
   in France)
• Championship
• Championship 1
  Championship 1
  Championship 1, known as The Co-operative Championship 1 due to sponsorship by The Co-operative Group, is a rugby league competition based in the United Kingdom. It acts as the country's third-tier competition behind the Championship, with which it has a system of promotion and relegation. It is...
  
   (also includes North Wales Crusaders
  North Wales Crusaders
  -Coaches:...
  
   and South Wales Scorpions
  South Wales Scorpions
  South Wales Scorpions Rugby League Football Club is a professional rugby league club formed in 2009, based in Neath, Wales. They are owned by a consortium of South Wales businessmen, led by Phil Davies...
  
  )

• Rugby League Ireland
  Rugby League Ireland
  Rugby League Ireland is the internationally recognised governing body for the development of rugby league football in Ireland, having secured official recognition from the RLIF in 2000...
  
  

• Lebanon Championship
  Rugby league in Lebanon
  Rugby league is a team sport that has been played in Lebanon since 2002.The seeds of rugby league in Lebanon in fact lie in Australia. A group of Australian-born rugby league players with Lebanese heritage, mostly from inner-city Sydney formed a side with a view to entering the 2000 Rugby League...
  
  

• Bartercard Cup
  Bartercard Cup
  The Bartercard Cup was the top level rugby league club competition in New Zealand from 2000 until 2007. For the entire life of the tournament it was sponsored by Bartercard. The cup was administered by the New Zealand Rugby League...
  
  
• National Zonal Competition
  2010 New Zealand rugby league season
  The New Zealand rugby league season 2010 was the one hundred and third season of rugby league that was played in New Zealand. The main feature of the year was the new National Zonal competition run by the New Zealand Rugby League...
  
  

• Papua New Guinea National Rugby League
  Papua New Guinea National Rugby League
  The Papua New Guinea National Rugby League Competition or the Digicel Cup is a semi-professional rugby league competition held annually in Papua New Guinea...
  
  

• Russian Championship

• USA Rugby League
  USA Rugby League
  The USA Rugby League is a semi-professional rugby league football competition based in the United States. The league was founded in 2011 by clubs that had broken with the established American National Rugby League , plus expansion franchises...
  
   (USARL)
• American National Rugby League
  American National Rugby League
  The American National Rugby League is a rugby league football competition for semi-professional clubs in the United States. It is the country's first domestic rugby league competition...
  
  
• NRLUS

• Welsh Premier Division
  Welsh Premier Division
  The Welsh Premier Division is a rugby union league in Wales first implemented by the Welsh Rugby Union for the 1990–91 season.-Competition history:...
  
  

Rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

• IRB Sevens World Series
  IRB Sevens World Series
  The IRB Sevens World Series, known officially as the HSBC Sevens World Series as of the 2010-11 season, through sponsorship from banking group HSBC, and also sometimes called the World Sevens Series, is a series of international rugby union sevens tournaments organised for the first time in the...
  
  

• Super Rugby

• Aviva Premiership
• RFU Championship
  RFU Championship
  The RFU Championship replaced National Division One as the second tier in the English rugby union system in September 2009. Unlike National Division One, which is semi-professional, the RFU Championship is a fully professional league.-History:...
  
   (second level; fully professional from 2009–10)

• National Rugby League (France)
  • Top 14
  • Rugby Pro D2
    Rugby Pro D2
    Rugby Pro D2, also known as Pro D2 is the second level of domestic club rugby union in France, below the first division, Top 14. The competition was introduced in 2000. There is relegation and promotion between both the Top 14 and Fédérale 1, the third-level competition...
    
    

• RaboDirect Pro12
  Celtic League (rugby union)
  The Celtic League is an annual rugby union competition involving professional sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
  
   (since 2010–11)
• Super 10
  Super 10 (Italian premiership)
  The withdrawal of Viadana and Benetton Treviso from the league has been compounded by club mergers. Rugby Viadana, Gran Parma and Colorno have merged to form GranDucato Rugby. Overmach Parma and Noceto have merged to form Crociati, both new clubs to be based in Parma. These changes created 2...
  
   (semi-pro from 2010–11)

Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

• RaboDirect Pro12
  Celtic League (rugby union)
  The Celtic League is an annual rugby union competition involving professional sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
  
  

• Top League
  Top League
  The Top League is a professional rugby union league created by the Japan Rugby Football Union to drive up the overall standard and popularity of the sport in the country and improve the results of the Japan national rugby union team. The first season was 2003-04 and featured 12 teams...
  
  

• Super Rugby
• ITM Cup (split into two divisions in 2011, but both remain fully professional)

• Professional Rugby League
  Professional Rugby League
  Professional Rugby League is the premier rugby union competition in Russia. The Professional League was formed in 2005 and succeeds the Superleague. The Superleague, in turn, was active from 1992 to 2004 and succeeded the Soviet Championship....
  
  

• RaboDirect Pro12
  Celtic League (rugby union)
  The Celtic League is an annual rugby union competition involving professional sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
  
  

• Super Rugby
• Currie Cup
  Currie Cup
  The Currie Cup tournament is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, played each winter and spring , featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces...
  
  
  • Premier Division
    Currie Cup
    The Currie Cup tournament is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, played each winter and spring , featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces...
    
    
  • First Division
    Currie Cup
    The Currie Cup tournament is South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, played each winter and spring , featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces...
    
    

• Super Ibérica de Rugby

• RaboDirect Pro12
  Celtic League (rugby union)
  The Celtic League is an annual rugby union competition involving professional sides from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
  
  

Volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

• Association of Volleyball Professionals
  Association of Volleyball Professionals
  The Association of Volleyball Professionals, or AVP, is a beach volleyball tour which takes place throughout the United States. The summer tour starts in April and continues almost every weekend until the end of October....
  
   (AVP) (United States - beach volleyball)
• Chinese Volleyball League
  Chinese Volleyball League
  The Chinese Volleyball League, often abbreviated to the CVL, is the pre-eminent men's and women's professional volleyball leagues in China.- Current Clubs :* Group A* Bayi* Beijing* Henan* Hubei* Jiangsu* Liaoning* Shandong* Shanghai...
  
   (CVL) (China - men and women)
• Enterprise Volleyball League
  Enterprise Volleyball League
  The Enterprise Volleyball League , often abbreviated to the TVL, is the amateur men's and women's volleyball leagues run by Chinese Taipei Volleyball Association . It was founded in 2004 with the purpose of increasing Taiwan's competition ability in volleyball...
  
   (TVL) (Chinese Taipei - men and women)
• Lega Pallavolo Serie A
  Italian Volleyball League
  The Italian Male Volleyball League is structured in several levels of importance; the highest of them is Serie A1. Many of the best volleyball players in the world playing in the A1 and the overall level of competition is considerably higher.-Structure:...
  
   (Italy - men)
• Male Superior Volleyball League
  Liga de Voleibol Superior Masculino
  The Liga de Voleibol Superior Masculino is a men's professional volleyball league in Puerto Rico. The competitions are organized by the Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation .-League Champions:-External links:...
  
   (Puerto Rico - men)
• Female Superior Volleyball League
  Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino
  The Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino is a professional volleyball league in Puerto Rico. The competitions are organized by the Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation .-League Champions:-External links:...
  
   (Puerto Rico - women)
• Dominican Republic Volleyball League (Dominican Republic - men and women)
• V.League
  V.League (Japan)
  The V.Premier League is the top-level volleyball league for both men and women in Japan. The league started in 1994.The competitions are organized by the Japan Volleyball Association....
  
   (Japan - men and women)
• V-League
  V-League (South Korea)
  The V-League is a South Korean club volleyball competition. V-League was founded in 2005 with six men's clubs and five women's clubs. From 2009-10 season, Seoul Woori Capital Dream Six joined the men's league.-Men's clubs:*Cheonan Hyundai Capital Skywalkers...
  
   (Republic of Korea - men and women)
• Pro A (France - men)
• Superliga Brasileira de Voleibol
  Superliga Brasileira de Voleibol
  The Superliga Brasileira de Voleibol is the top level Brazilian volleyball competition and it is organized by the Brazilian Volleyball Confederation. There are both men's and women's competitions...
  
   (Brazil - men and women)
• Plus Liga
  Polish Volleyball League
  The Polish Volleyball League , is the highest level of men's volleyball in Poland, a professional league competition for volleyball clubs located in this country. It is overseen by Profesjonalna Liga Piłki Siatkowej S.A. . It is currently a 10 team league that plays a 18 game schedule from...
  
   (Poland - men)
• Plus Liga Kobiet (Poland - women)

See also

• List of professional sports leagues in Asia
• List of defunct sports leagues
• List of developmental and minor sports leagues
• Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada
• List of professional sports teams in the United States and Canada
• List of cities by number of pro-sports franchises (North America
  North America
  North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
  
  )
• National Collegiate Athletic Association
  National Collegiate Athletic Association
  The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
  
   (NCAA)
• Little League
  Little League
  Little League Baseball and Softball is a non-profit organization in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States which organizes local youth baseball and softball leagues throughout the U.S...
  
  , amateur baseball
  Baseball
  Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
  
   and softball
  Softball
  Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
  
   league
• List of sports
• List of sports attendance figures

External links

• North American Pro Sports Teams - Lists every league that has operated in Canada and the United States. Grouped by city.