List of defunct sports leagues

List of defunct sports leagues

Australia

Australian football

* Tasmanian Football League (TFL 1879-2000)

Baseball

*Australian Baseball League

Rugby League

*Super League (Australia)

Rugby Union

*Australian Rugby Championship

occer

*Anglo-Australian Football Association
*Queensland British Football Association
*South Australian British Football Association
*Southern British Football Association
*Tasmania British Football Association
*National Soccer League

Canada

Baseball

*Canadian Baseball League (CBL 2003)

Basketball

*National Basketball League (NBL 1993-94)

Ice Hockey

* Coloured Hockey League (1895-1925)
* Canadian Amateur Hockey League (1898-1905)
* Amateur Hockey Association (AHA 1893-1898)
* Federal Amateur Hockey League (1903-1906)
* Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey League (1905-1906)
* Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (1906-1909)
* Manitoba Professional Hockey League (MPHL 1907-09)
* National Hockey Association (NHA 1909-1917)
* Canadian Hockey Association (CHA 1909-1910)
* Maritime Professional Hockey League (MPHL 1910-15) - aka Interprovincal Hockey League, and Eastern Professional Hockey League
* Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA 1911-24)
* Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL 1921-1926)
* International Hockey League (IHL 1945-2001)
* Metro Junior A League (1961-63)
* World Hockey Association (WHA 1972-1979)
* Roller Hockey International (RHI 1993-1997, 1999)

Soccer

*Canadian Soccer League (CSL 1987-92)
*Canadian National Soccer League (CNSL 1922-97)

New Zealand

Rugby union

* National Provincial Championship (NPC, 1976-2005)
** Replaced by Air New Zealand Cup and Heartland Championship in 2006.

Russia

Ice hockey

* Russian Super League (1996-2008)
** Replaced by the Kontinental Hockey League in 2008. The KHL also launched with teams from Belarus, Latvia. and Kazakhstan.

United Kingdom

American Football

* Amateur American Football Conference (AAFC) (1985-1986)
* American Football League, UK (AFLUK) (1985)
* British American Football Federation (BAFF) (1985)
* British American Football League (BAFL) (1986)
* British Independent Gridiron Conference (BIG-C) (1997)
* Budweiser League (1986-1989)
* Capital League (1987)
* Combined Gridiron League (CGL) (1989)
* National Conference Management and Marketing Association (NCMMA) (1990)
* National Division Management Association (NDMA) (1990-1993)
* Northwest & Welsh Counties American Football League (NWCAFL) (1987)
* South Western American Football League (SWAFL) (1988-1989)
* Thistle League (1987)
* United Kingdom American Football Association (UKAFA) (1985)
* United Kingdom American Football League (UKAFL) (1987-1988)

Basketball

* National Basketball League (1974-2003)

Association Football

* Football Alliance (1889-1892)
* Athenian League (1912-1984)
* Chiltonian League (1984-2000)
* Surrey Senior League (1922-2003)

United States

Pro Baseball

* National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (1871-75)
* American Association (1882-1891)
* Union Association (1884)
* Negro Leagues
** League of Colored Baseball Clubs reorganized as Eastern Interstate League (1887; 1889-1890)
** Negro National League
*** Midwestern and southern United States (1920-1931)
*** Eastern United States (1933-1948)
** Eastern Colored League (1923-1928)
** American Negro League (1929)
** Negro East West League (1932)
** Negro Southern League (1932)
** Negro American League (1937-1950)
** Negro Midwest League (194?-19??)
** United States Negro Baseball League (1945-1946)
** West Coast Negro Baseball League (1946)
* Players League (1890)
* Federal League (1914-1915)
* American Association (20th century) minor league (1902-1962 and 1969-1997)
* All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1943-1954)
* Continental League (1960, never played)
* Senior Professional Baseball Association (1989-1990)
* Great Central League (1994)
* United League Baseball (1995, never played)
* Western Baseball League (1995-2002)

Pro Basketball

Men:
* AABA-All-American Basketball Alliance (1977-78)
* AAPBL-All-American Professional Basketball League (2005)
* ABA-American Basketball Association (1967-1976)
* ABL I-American Basketball League I (1925-1955)
* ABL II-American Basketball League II (1961-1963)
* GBA-Global Basketball Association (GBA 1991-92 - December 1992, league folded midway through 1992-93 season)
* IBA-International Basketball Association (1995-2001)
* IBL-International Basketball League (1999-2001)
* NBL-National Basketball League (1937-1949)
* NPBL-National Professional Basketball League (1950-1951)
* NRL-National Rookie League (2000-2002)
* PBLA-Professional Basketball League of America (1947-1948)
* WBA-Western Basketball Association (1978-79)
* WBL-World Basketball League (1988-1992)

Women:
* Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL 1978-81)
* Liberty Basketball Association, a woman's pro basketball league.
* American Basketball League III (ABL 1996-1998)

Amateur Basketball

* Amateur Athletic Association Basketball (AAU 1897-1982)

Pro Football

*AAFC - All-America Football Conference (1946-1949)
*AFL - American Football League (1926)
*AFL - American Football League (1936-1937)
*AFL - American Football League (1940-1941)
*AFL - American Football League (1960-1969, now the AFC of the NFL)
*CFL - Continental Football League (1965-1969)
*IFL - Indoor Football League (1999-2000)
*IPFL - Indoor Professional Football League (1999-2001)
*PIFL - Professional Indoor Football League (1998)
*PSFL - Professional Spring Football League (1991 - Training Camp)
*USFL - United States Football League (1983-1985)
*WFL - World Football League (1974-1975)
*XFL - eXtreme Football League (2001)

Note: Bolded leagues were competitor of major league NFL.

Pro Hockey

* World Hockey Association (WHA 1972-1979)
* Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA 1911-1924)
* International Hockey League (IHL 1945-2001)
* Roller Hockey International (RHI 1993-1997, 1999)

Pro Soccer (Association Football)

* American Football Association (1896-1907)
* American Soccer League (1921-1933, 1933-83, 1988-1989)
* Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL 1993-97)
* Major Soccer League aka Major Indoor Soccer League ( 1978-1992)
* North American Soccer League (NASL 1968-1984)
* Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA 2001-2003; to be revived in 2009 as Women's Professional Soccer)
* World Indoor Soccer League (WISL 1998-2001)
* United Soccer League (1984-85)

Pro Lacrosse

* National Lacrosse League (1974-75)
* American Lacrosse League (1988)

Other

* Canadian Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (CASCAR 1981-2006; replaced by NASCAR Canadian Tire Series)
* International Boxing League (IBL 1969-70)
* International Roller Derby League (IRDL 1935-1973)
* International Volleyball Association (IVA 1974)
* Japan Soccer League (JSL 1965-1992)
* National Bowling League (NBL 1961-62)
* Major League Volleyball (1987-89)
* NFL Europa (1991-2007)
* Pro Cricket (2004)
* Professional Slow Pitch Softball Leagues (1977-1982)
* United States Professional Volleyball (USPV 2002-2003)
* World Team Tennis (WTT 1974-1978)
* Women's American football leagues since 1998.
* Women's Western Volleyball League (WWVL 1993-1994)

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/6925/ Defunct sports leagues]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/ns/agalley/napsl/napsl1.html North American Pro Sports Teams] - Lists every imaginable league that has operated in Canada and / or the United States. Grouped by city.


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