List_of_defunct_sports_leagues

List of defunct professional sports leagues

List of defunct professional sports leagues

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These are notable sports leagues which are no longer operating.

Australia

Australian football

Baseball

Rugby league

Rugby union

Soccer

Canada

Auto racing

Baseball

Basketball

Ice hockey

Soccer

New Zealand

Rugby union

  • National Provincial Championship (NPC, 1976–2005; professional from 1996)
    • Replaced by the current Bunnings National Provincial Championship (previously Air New Zealand Cup, ITM Cup and Mitre 10 Cup) and Heartland Championship in 2006. Although the NPC as a single entity is defunct, its basic structure was largely revived in 2011 with the split of the then-ITM Cup into two divisions. The main difference between the current NPC and its original version is that no promotion from the Heartland Championship to the Bunnings NPC is currently possible. The original NPC featured promotion and/or relegation (or at least the possibility thereof) at all three levels.

Russia

Ice hockey

South Africa

Rugby union

  • Vodacom Cup (1998–2015)
    • Second tier of domestic professional rugby, behind the Currie Cup, although the competition occasionally included teams from Argentina and Namibia as well. Scrapped after the 2015 season; a one-off expanded Currie Cup was held in 2016 before a successor second-level competition, the Rugby Challenge, was launched in 2017.

United Kingdom

American football

Basketball

Association football

United States

Professional athletics

Professional baseball

Professional basketball

Men:

Women:

Amateur basketball

Professional football

Competitors to NFL

Other leagues

Professional hockey

Professional rugby union

Professional soccer (association football)

Professional Softball

Professional lacrosse

Other

References

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    "Baseball Historian – Part of the Sports Historian Network".
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