List of professional sports teams in Virginia

List of professional sports teams in Virginia

The following is a List of professional sports teams in Virginia. Virginia is by far the most populous U.S. state without a major professional sports league franchise. There have been proposals to locate stadiums for Washington teams in Northern Virginia or to locate teams in the Hampton Roads area, but none have come to fruition. When Jack Kent Cooke decided to build a replacement for the aging RFK Stadium as home of the Washington Redskins, he considered a site in Alexandria until public opposition developed. An attempt to bring a National Hockey League expansion franchise to Norfolk in the 1990s was rejected by the NHL. The Houston Astros were nearly sold and relocated to Northern Virginia in 1996, but Major League Baseball owners stepped in and scuttled the proposed transaction in order to give Houston time to approve a new stadium deal. A proposal to relocate the Montreal Expos to Norfolk was considered by Major League Baseball in 2004. MLB had also considered a site near Washington Dulles International Airport in Loudoun County as a possible new home for the Expos. However, a reluctance by state officials to dedicate funds to the project along with concern about traffic helped lead MLB to select Washington as the Expos' new home. The ownership of the Florida Marlins has mentioned Norfolk as one of the cities to which it could relocate the team.

The Virginia Squires played in the American Basketball League from 1970 to 1976.


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