Sports team added after the founding of its league
For the Dilated Peoples album, see Expansion Team (album).
See also: Relocation of professional sports teams
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An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. Sporting leagues also hope that the expansion of their competition will grow the popularity of the sport generally. The term is most commonly used in reference to the North American major professional sports leagues but is applied to sports leagues in other countries with a closed franchise system of league membership. The term refers to the expansion of the sport into new areas. The addition of an expansion team sometimes results in the payment of an expansion fee to the league by the new team and an expansion draft to populate the new roster.
An expansionteam is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of...
undergone several rounds of expansion and other organizational changes during its history to reach its current thirty-two active teams: twenty-five in the United...
Pacific Division in the Western Conference. Founded in 2017 as an expansionteam, the team is the first major sports franchise to represent Las Vegas. The...
Expansion, expansion, or expand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Expansion may refer to: L'Expansion, a French monthly business magazine Expansion...
Association has undergone several rounds of expansion in the league's history, since it began play in 1946, to reach 30 teams. The most recent examples are the...
League (NHL) expansion added six new franchises for the 1967–68 season, doubling the size of the league to 12 teams. It was the largest expansion undertaken...
The Utah NHL team is a professional ice hockey expansionteam that will be based in Salt Lake City. The still-unnamed team will compete in the National...
Texas to become the expansion Houston Dynamo, after failing to build a stadium in San Jose. The Dynamo became an expansionteam, leaving their history...
series's game seven, the Kraken took a 2–1 victory, becoming the first NHL expansionteam to win its inaugural playoff series against the defending Stanley Cup...
Many TeamExpansion workers are associated with the Restoration Movement of churches, but as an agency, TeamExpansion is non-denominational. Team Expansion...
the 29th MLS team and the most recent expansionteam, having joined the league for the 2023 season. The league plans to expand to 30 teams in 2025 with...
established on November 13, 2007, and began play in 2009 as an MLS expansionteam. The Sounders are a phoenix club, replacing the second-division franchise...
has undergone several rounds of expansion beginning in 1961, eventually reaching 30 teams with its most recent expansion taking place in 1998. MLB has discussed...
An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansionteams or franchises. This occurs mainly...
2018, Major League Soccer (MLS) officially approved David Beckham's expansionteam in Miami. Since it began playing in the Eastern Conference in the 2020...
league to launch with 14–18 teams across four specific geographic areas in 2011, expansion to 22–26 teams by 2013, and 28–32 teams by 2015. Following USL Pro's...
Founded in 2014, Atlanta United began play as an MLS expansionteam in 2017, as the twenty-second team in the league. It is the first MLS franchise to be...
league's only teams for 25 seasons, they were joined by six new franchises in the 1967 NHL expansion. The Six are not the original teams of the NHL. The...
league's first expansionteam, and seventh overall, beginning in the 2020 season. In February 2021, Morreale announced that an expansionteam in Montreal...
Hamilton Tigers. Two new teams joined the NHL in its eighth season, the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Maroons, the first expansionteam in the United States...
Hockey League on July 21, 2021, to fill the roster of the league's expansionteam for the 2021–22 season, the Seattle Kraken. On December 4, 2017, the...
California, scheduled to enter Major League Soccer (MLS) as an expansionteam in 2025. The team will play home matches at Snapdragon Stadium, a multi-use venue...
regular season began on April 6, 2024. This season features 29 teams, with two expansionteams making their debut: the Abra Weavers and the Pangasinan Heatwaves...
Conference (NFC) South division. The club joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansionteam, along with the Seattle Seahawks, and played its first season in the...
red, and white. An expansion franchise, the club was founded in Toronto in 1977. Originally based at Exhibition Stadium, the team began playing its home...
expansion draft was an expansion draft conducted by the National Hockey League on June 18–20, 2017 to fill the roster of the league's expansionteam for...
The addition of the former CHL teams plus the expansion Indy Fuel raised the number of teams to 28 and placed a team in Canada for the first time since...
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