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Franchise relocations in North America

Background

Unlike most professional sport systems worldwide, sports organizations in North America generally lack a system of promotion and relegation in which poorly performing teams are replaced with teams that do well in lower-level leagues. North America lacks comprehensive governing bodies whose authority extends from the amateur to the highest levels of a given sport. Unlike in other countries, where one may invest in a local lower-level club and through performance see that club rise to major league status, the only three ways a North American city can host a major league sports team are through league expansion, forming/joining a rival league or, most commonly, relocation. In many sports leagues around the world (with North American and Australian professional leagues being the most notable exceptions), relegation (or demotion) means the mandated transfer of the least successful team(s) of a higher division into a lower division at the end of the season. ...

A city wishing to get a team in a major professional sports league can wait for the league to expand and award new franchises. However, as of 2006 each of the major leagues has 30 or 32 franchises. Many current owners believe this is the optimal size for a major league, and with the possible exception of the NFL's desire to return to Los Angeles, North America's second largest market, none of the major leagues are believed to be imminently considering expansion. The term major professional sports league is used to describe the most important and well regarded leagues in the biggest professional sports in a country or region. ... The term major professional sports league is used to describe the most important and well regarded leagues in the biggest professional sports in a country or region. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...

In past decades, aspiring owners whose overtures had been rejected by the established leagues would respond by forming a rival league in hopes that the existing major league will eventually agree to a merger, the new league will attain major league status in its own right and/or the established league is compelled to expand. The 1960s American Football League is perhaps the most prominent example of a successful rival league, having achieved each of the three goals listed above in reverse order. However, all major sports have had a rival league achieve at least some of these goals in the past five decades. Baseball's proposed Continental League did not play a game, but only because Major League Baseball responded to the proposal by adding teams in some of the proposed CL cities. The American Basketball Association and World Hockey Association each succeeded in getting some of their franchises accepted into the established leagues, which had both unsuccessfully attempted to cause their upstart rivals to fold outright by adding more teams. The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as assets. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... The American Football League (AFL) was a professional league of American football that operated from 1960 to 1969. ... The Continental League was a proposed third major league for baseball. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. ... For the league that began in 1999, see American Basketball Association (2000-). The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a professional basketball league founded in 1967, and eventually merged, in part, with the National Basketball Association (NBA). ... World Hockey Association logo The World Hockey Association (French: Association Mondiale de Hockey) was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979. ...

However, given present market and financial conditions a serious attempt to form a rival league in the early 21st century would likely require hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars in investment and initial losses, and even if such resources were made available the upstart league's success would be far from guaranteed, as evidenced by the failure of the WWF/NBC-backed XFL in 2001. Therefore, so long as leagues choose not to expand and/or reject a city's application, the only realistic recourse is to convince the owner(s) of an existing team to move it. The 21st century is the present century of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... The XFL was a professional American football league that played for one season in 2001. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Owners usually move teams because of weak fan support or the team organization is in debt and needs an adequete population for support or because another city offers a bigger local market or a more financially lucrative stadium/arena deal. Governments may offer lucrative deals to team owners to attract or retain a team. For example, to attract the National Football League's Cleveland Browns in 1995, the state of Maryland agreed to build a new stadium and allow the team to use it rent-free and keep all parking, advertising and concession revenue. (This move proved so controversial that the team was renamed the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL awarded Cleveland a new franchise, which took the Browns name and official lineage.) Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia is capable of being converted from a rectangular rugby football field to an oval for cricket and Australian rules football games This article is about the building type. ... ARENA may refer to either: Nationalist Republican Alliance, a political party in El Salvador. ... The National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most prestigious professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 90 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37°53N to 39°43N  - Longitude 75°4W to 79°33... M&T Bank Stadium is the home to the Baltimore Ravens, Baltimores National Football League franchise. ... City Baltimore, Maryland Team colors Purple, Black, and Gold Head Coach Brian Billick Owner Steve Bisciotti General manager Ozzie Newsome Mascot Ravens League/Conference affiliations National Football League (1996–present) American Football Conference (1996-present) AFC Central (1996-2001) AFC North (2002-present) Team history Baltimore Ravens (1996–present) Championships...

The relocation of sports teams is often controversial. Opponents criticize owners for leaving behind faithful fans and governments for spending millions of dollars of tax money on attracting teams. However, since sports teams in the USA are generally treated like any other business under antitrust law, there is little sports leagues can do to prevent teams from flocking to the highest bidders. Major League Baseball, unique among the major professional sports leagues, has an exemption from antitrust laws won through a Supreme Court decision but nonetheless has allowed several teams to change cities. This article is about anti-competitive business behavior. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest judicial body in the...

Newer sports leagues tend to have more-transient franchises than more-established, "major" leagues, but in the mid-1990s, several NFL and National Hockey League teams moved to other cities, and the threat of a move pushed cities with major-league teams in any sport to build new stadiums and arenas. Critics referred to the movement of teams to the highest-bidding city as "franchise free agency." “NHL” redirects here. ...

List of relocations

The following charts list movements of franchises in the modern eras of the major North American sports leagues. It does not include:

• Moves within a city, which have occurred many times in all major leagues.
• Short-distance city-suburb moves (i.e. Los Angeles to Anaheim, both of which are in the same urban agglomeration)
• Team moves that happened before the organization joined its current league.
• Moves of teams that as of 2006 no longer exist. There were many such moves in the early years of the NFL in particular.

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Major League Baseball

• 1901: Milwaukee Brewers became St. Louis Browns.
• 1903: Baltimore Orioles became New York Highlanders and then the Yankees
• 1953: Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee. First MLB relocation in 50 years.
• 1954: St. Louis Browns became Baltimore Orioles.
• 1955: Philadelphia Athletics moved to Kansas City.
• 1958: Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles; New York Giants moved to San Francisco. The first major league teams on the West Coast. Teams moved simultaneously to facilitate travel for other NL teams.
• 1961: Washington Senators moved to the Twin Cities area and became the Minnesota Twins. Not wishing to alienate Washington and its powerful baseball fans, MLB granted the city a new franchise, also called the Senators.
• 1966: Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta.
• 1968: Kansas City Athletics moved to Oakland.
• 1970: Seattle Pilots became Milwaukee Brewers. The Pilots were a 1-year-old expansion team at the time of their move and this made the move controversial. Most leagues since then have made a ruling^{[citation needed]} that expansion teams can't move until they are at least 5 years old.
• 1972: Second Washington Senators moved to Arlington, Texas and became Texas Rangers.
• 2005: Montreal Expos became Washington Nationals. The Expos had split time between Montreal and San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2003 and 2004.

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National Football League

• 1921: Decatur Staleys moved to Chicago and renamed Chicago Bears one year later.
• 1934: Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans became Detroit Lions.
• 1937: Boston Redskins moved to Washington, D.C.
• 1946: Cleveland Rams moved to Los Angeles (First top-level professional sports franchise on the West Coast).
• 1960: Chicago Cardinals moved to St. Louis.
• 1982: Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles. The NFL refused permission for the move, but the team won the right to relocate in a court case.
• 1984: Baltimore Colts moved to Indianapolis. The team's offices were slipped out of Baltimore in the middle of the night to avoid a proposed eminent domain seizure by the state of Maryland.
• 1988: St. Louis Cardinals moved to the Phoenix area, playing games in nearby Tempe (the team now plays in another Phoenix suburb, Glendale). Renamed Arizona Cardinals in 1994.
• 1995: Los Angeles Rams moved to St. Louis.
• 1995: Los Angeles Raiders moved back to Oakland to become Oakland Raiders again. Since then, Los Angeles, the nation's second-largest market, has not hosted an NFL franchise.
• 1996: Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore and became Baltimore Ravens. In response to a fan revolt and legal threats, the NFL awarded a new franchise to Cleveland in 1999, which for historical purposes is considered a continuation of the original Browns franchise.
• 1997: Houston Oilers moved to Memphis and became the Tennessee Oilers. The team originally planned to play both 1997 and 1998 in Memphis before moving to their intended destination of Nashville. However, due to poor attendance, the team moved to Nashville in 1998, playing in Vanderbilt University's stadium. Renamed the Tennessee Titans in 1999, when their new stadium was opened.

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National Basketball Association

• 1951: Tri-Cities Hawks (The "Tri Cities" area is now generally referred to as "Quad Cities") moved to Milwaukee
• 1955: Milwaukee Hawks moved to St. Louis.
• 1957: Fort Wayne Pistons moved to Detroit
• 1957; Rochester Royals moved to Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1960: Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles.
• 1962: Philadelphia Warriors moved to San Francisco.
• 1963: Chicago Zephyrs became the Baltimore Bullets.
• 1963: Syracuse Nationals became the Philadelphia 76ers.
• 1968: St. Louis Hawks moved to Atlanta.
• 1971: San Diego Rockets moved to Houston.
• 1972: Cincinnati Royals moved to a new primary home in Kansas City and a secondary home in Omaha, carrying the name Kansas City-Omaha Kings. The team ceased Omaha operations in 1975 and became known as just the Kansas City Kings.
• 1973: Baltimore Bullets moved to Landover, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., and became Capital Bullets. Name changed to Washington Bullets in 1974. In 1997, they move to Washington proper, and become the Washington Wizards.
• 1978: Buffalo Braves became the San Diego Clippers.
• 1979: New Orleans Jazz moved to Salt Lake City.
• 1984: San Diego Clippers moved to Los Angeles.
• 1985: Kansas City Kings moved to Sacramento.
• 2001: Vancouver Grizzlies moved to Memphis.
• 2002: Charlotte Hornets moved to New Orleans. In 2005, forced out of New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina, the team began operations out of Oklahoma City as the "New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets" until the conclusion of the 2006-2007 NBA season.

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National Hockey League

• 1920: The Quebec Bulldogs moved to Hamilton and became the Hamilton Tigers. The Tigers franchise was revoked in 1925 and their players were bought out by the expansion New York Americans.
• 1930: The Pittsburgh Pirates moved to Philadelphia, where they played one season as the Philadelphia Quakers before folding.
• 1934: The original Ottawa Senators moved to St. Louis, where they became the St. Louis Eagles. The 1934-35 season was the Eagles' first and last, as the team folded at the end of the season.
• 1976: The California Golden Seals, which played their home games in Oakland, moved to Cleveland and became the Cleveland Barons. The Barons franchise was later absorbed into the Minnesota North Stars organization in 1978, then split off again to form the San Jose Sharks in 1991.
• 1976: The Kansas City Scouts moved to Denver and became the Colorado Rockies.
• 1980: The Atlanta Flames moved to Calgary and became the Calgary Flames.
• 1982: The Colorado Rockies moved to East Rutherford, New Jersey and became the New Jersey Devils.
• 1993: The Minnesota North Stars moved to Dallas and became the Dallas Stars.
• 1995: The Quebec Nordiques moved to Denver and became the Colorado Avalanche.
• 1996: The Winnipeg Jets moved to Phoenix and became the Phoenix Coyotes.
• 1997: The Hartford Whalers moved corporate offices to Raleigh, North Carolina and became the Carolina Hurricanes. For two years they played home games in Greensboro while an arena was under construction in Raleigh.

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Major League Soccer

• 2006: San Jose Earthquakes moved to Houston and renamed Houston Dynamo. An MLS franchise was awarded to Lew Wolff in 2006, and will probably compete in MLS in either 2008 or 2009 as a continuation of the Earthquakes franchise.

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Team relocation in Europe

In Europe, this sort of move is very rare. This is due to the different relationship between clubs and their league in the European system of Professional sports league organization. In most sports, teams can be relegated from their current league down to a lower one, or promoted up a league to the one above. Membership of the national top division is gained and held through excellent performance — and lost when performance slips. This arrangement is equally true for every level in the Football pyramid. The pyramid system inevitably leads to nearly every sizable city or town having at least a semi-pro team (or teams) that will have likely have secured the loyalty of the town's fanbase, thus making the town unattractive to anyone looking to move a team there even if it plays in a higher division. Thus, any person or city wanting a top-league team can invest in the already-existing lower-level team that will likely be there and hope the team can advance to the top division. Wigan Athletic and Gretna are examples of teams in England and Scotland, respectively, that have risen up the pyramid dramatically due to investment. Additionally, the background of many clubs in these leagues is of social and community organisations rather than a commercial venture by an owner or owners which is why teams are usually referred to as clubs regardless of their current ownership structure. Whilst teams are now commonly privatised and often associated heavily with high profile owners, this historical basis may be why even private concerns are reluctant to move. World map showing the location of Europe. ... Professional sports leagues are organized in numerous ways. ... In many sports leagues around the world (with North American and Australian professional leagues being the most notable exceptions), relegation (or demotion) means the mandated transfer of the least successful team(s) of a higher division into a lower division at the end of the season. ... In many sports leagues around the world (with North American and Australian professional leagues being the most notable exceptions), relegation (or demotion) means the mandated transfer of the least successful team(s) of a higher division into a lower division at the end of the season. ... The original FA Premier League logo, used until 2007 The Premier League (officially known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons, previously known as The Premiership), is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top echelon of the English football league system (above The Football League). ... A league system is a hierarchy of leagues in a sport that teams can be promoted or relegated between, depending on finishing positions or playoffs. ... Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional football team based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. ... Gretna Football Club is a Scottish football club from Gretna, near Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, recently promoted to the Scottish Premier League. ...

United Kingdom

Football

• In England, Wimbledon F.C.'s Norwegian owners moved the club from South London to Milton Keynes, a town more than 60 miles away and one of the few large towns (due to its status as a new town constructed in 1967) without a league football team. For doing so, they were widely criticised by the English footballing community, who began to refer disparagingly to the club as "Franchise F.C.": though this isn't technically 'franchising', the fact of continuing to call it Wimbledon (when it was nowhere near) made it reminiscent of US practice (see "Background" above). London fans created a new local team, AFC Wimbledon; Wimbledon F.C. went into administration, was bought out of administration and subsequently relaunched with a new name, Milton Keynes Dons F.C.. Twelve years before the move to Milton Keynes, they had already left their home London borough of Merton for Selhurst Park in the (London borough of) Croydon. Although this was a supposedly temporary move, it had lasted 12 years by the time of their migration.
• Another similar, but less well known move, is that from South Shields. In 1973, South Shields F.C. became Gateshead United F.C. after a move between the two towns that are 10 miles apart — repeating a similar migration in 1930. (This club failed a few years later. The present Gateshead F.C. and South Shields F.C. are new clubs).
• More recently in Scotland, Meadowbank Thistle, a struggling Edinburgh club controversially relocated in 1995 to the new town of Livingston, 19 miles away. It changed its name to Livingston F.C., its fortunes improved and it won the Scottish League Cup in 2004.
• Also in Scotland, Airdrie United F.C. was the 2002 reincarnation of Clydebank F.C., which relocated to Airdrie following the earlier liquidation of Airdrieonians F.C..
• Again in Scotland, Clyde F.C. moved from Shawfield Stadium (near Rutherglen in the south east of Glasgow) to the new town of Cumbernauld in 1994. They had been evicted from Shawfield in 1986. By 1990, Clyde secured an agreement to build a home of their own in the Cumbernauld, which due to shifting population patterns was by now one of the larger settlements in Scotland without senior football. They were homeless from 1986 until Broadwood Stadium was built in Cumbernauld in 1994.

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• Arsenal moved from Woolwich in south London to Highbury in north London in 1913.
• Manchester United left Manchester in 1910 and moved to Old Trafford.
• Grimsby Town play in the town of Cleethorpes, a town to the south of Grimsby that has been absorbed by the former's outward growth
• Partick Thistle is a Scottish football club that moved from the Glasgow district of Partick to that of Maryhill but retains its name.
• Horwich moved from their infamous Grundy Hill ground, with a 14 foot slope from corner to corner, and relocated to Leigh. Despite the move, it was promised that the club would retain its original name until at least the end of its centenary season but this never happened. The summer of the move, the club was renamed Leigh RMI and the team changed its kit, badge, colours, name and neglected its history. A new Horwich RMI then started, playing in Eccles and is soon to return home to the town, yards away from where Grundy Hill once stood.

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Rugby League

In 1999, just one year after the Sheffield Eagles won the Challenge Cup, they accepted an offer from the RFL to merge with the Huddersfield Giants. The new team, Huddersfield-Sheffield Giants, played some matches in Sheffield's Don Valley Stadium and some in Huddersfield's McAlpine Stadium. However, the new team consisting of mostly ex-Sheffield players, whilst retaining the old -Giants suffix resulted in a lack of acceptance from both sets of fans (though primarily Sheffield), and the team reverted to the Huddersfield Giants name the following season, effectively a franchise of the team. A new Sheffield Eagles started from stratch that following season, and now compete at National League 1. Rugby league football (usually shortened to rugby league, football, league or rugby) is a full-contact team sport played with a prolate spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Sheffield Eagles RLFC are a rugby league team based in the South Yorkshire city of Sheffield. ... The Challenge Cup (currently known as the Carnegie Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons) is a knockout cup competition for rugby league clubs across Europe. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club based at the Galpharm Stadium in Huddersfield, in the Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. ... Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. ... Don Valley Stadium The Don Valley Stadium is an athletics stadium in Sheffield, England. ... Huddersfield is a large town in England near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme. ... The Galpharm Stadium is a multi-use sports stadium in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. ... The Rugby League National Leagues (currently known as the LHF Healthplan National Leagues as a result of sponsorship) form the basis for rugby league competition in Great Britain below Super League. ...

The same year, Gatshead Thunder, who had only been playing in the English Super League for one year, were taken over by Hull Sharks and rebranded Hull FC. Many Rugby League fans focus on the Huddersfield-Sheffield merger, forgetting the takeover from Hull of Gateshead

Team Relocations in Australia

Two of the major professional sporting leagues in Australia are the Australian Football League and National Rugby League. Both competitions were originally based in one city and expanded to a national level, as such there have been team relocations, mergers and closures in both leagues. As in North America, promotion and relegation does not exist. This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ... The National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. ...

AFL

The AFL is the national competition in Australian rules football and grew out of the mostly suburban Melbourne based Victorian Football League competition, as a result the member clubs have had to move to adjust to a changing national focus. High marking is a key skill and spectator attribute of Aussie Rules Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the key skill in Aussie Rules Football Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy is a code of football... Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ... VFL/AFL is the term used to refer to the competition established in 1897, which was originally known as the Victorian Football League. ...

Major Interstate Relocations

• South Melbourne Swans - in 1982 relocated interstate to Sydney 963 kilometres north and became the Sydney Swans. Despite early struggles, the club has more than tripled its membership since.
• Fitzroy Lions - in 1996 the Melbourne based club merged with the interstate Brisbane Bears to become the Brisbane Lions and base itself 1669 kilometres north of its former home. Since the merger, the club has almost doubled its membership. The Fitzroy Lions club maintains a small Melbourne branch office and sponsors a spin-off amateur club based near its old home.

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Minor Relocations

• St Kilda Football Club - in 1964 relocated from the Junction Oval in St Kilda to the Moorabbin Oval in the South Eastern Melbourne suburb of Moorabbin. Two years later they won their first and only premiership. St Kilda were one of the first tenants of the new Colonial Stadium in 2000, but their administration remained at Moorabbin.
• Hawthorn Football Club - in 1973 moved from suburban Hawthorn to Waverley Park in Mulgrave, Victoria an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne. In 2000, the club moved its home games to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In 2005, some years after Waverley Park's demise as an official VFL/AFL venue, the club permanently relocated to Waverley, but the name of the club did not change.
• Brisbane Bears - in 1993 relocated to the Brisbane Cricket Ground in Brisbane for the 1993 season and membership and attendances instantly tripled. Formed in 1986, the perhaps incorrectly named side had initially established itself in Carrara, Queensland a suburb of the city of the Gold Coast, Queensland, some 80 kilometres south of the city of Brisbane.
• Collingwood Football Club - in 1999 played their last game at Victoria Park in Collingwood and moved to the larger and more central Melbourne Cricket Ground. The headquarters of the club moved to the Lexus Centre in Richmond, Victoria in 2005.

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Home Ground Only Relocations

• Fitzroy Football Club - in 1967 moved its home ground from the Brunswick Street Oval in Fitzroy to Princes Park, Carlton. In 1970, the club again moved its home game to the Junction Oval in 1970, then the Whitten Oval in 1984 before eventually merging with an interstate club.
• Essendon Football Club - in 1993 moved their home ground from Windy Hill, Essendon to the larger and more central Melbourne Cricket Ground. In 2000, the club again moved home games to the Telstra Dome, though the headquarters of the club remained in Essendon.
• Port Adelaide Football Club - in 1997, on admission to the AFL moved its home games to AAMI Stadium. The club retained its administration and training base at Alberton Oval in Port Adelaide.
• North Melbourne Football Club - in 2000 moved home ground to the Telstra Dome, but retained the Arden Street Oval in North Melbourne as official headquarters.
• Geelong Football Club - in 2000, the provincial Victorian club became the AFL's first true dual-home club, playing the larger games at the Telstra Dome 75 kilometres away in Melbourne. The club's administration remains based at Kardinia Park in Geelong.
• Footscray Football Club - in 2002 moved permanently from the Whitten Oval in Footscray to the larger and more central Telstra Dome and changed their name to the Western Bulldogs, though the club's headquarters is still in Footscray.
• Richmond Football Club - moved their home games from Punt Road Oval next door to the much larger Melbourne Cricket Ground. The club still trains and has administration quarters at the Punt Road Oval.
• Melbourne Football Club - During the re-development ot their home, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the training and administration headquarters of the club were temporarily moved to Sandringham, Victoria with the Victorian Football League affiliate, the Sandringham Football Club. The club's training headquarters are currently at the Junction Oval which proves troublesome during the summer as it is used for cricket. The club hopes to remove the problems associated with separate administration and training headquarters when it moves all operation to its new headquarters at a refurbished Olympic Park in 2007.
• Carlton Football Club - at the end of the 2005 season moved from Optus Oval in Carlton, to the larger and more central Telstra Dome, although retained its administration headquarters at Princes Park. The club was the last suburban based Melbourne club to leave its former home ground.

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Secondary Interstate 'Home's

Some Melbourne based clubs began selling home games interstate in the late 1990s and conducting community camp clinics to build up local supporter bases.

• Western Bulldogs - Darwin, Northern Territory since 2000 (approximately 1-2 games a year). In 2007, the Bulldogs reduced their commitment to 1 game and signed a deal to also play 1 game a year in Canberra.
• St Kilda Football Club - Launceston, Tasmania (approximately 2 games a year between 2002-2006).
• Hawthorn Football Club - Launceston, Tasmania (approximately 2 games a year between 2002-2006). In 2006, changed their naming rights to the Tassie Hawks and increased the number of games to 4 per year
• North Melbourne Football Club - in 1999, backed by the AFL, the club changed their trading name to the Kangaroos, and played a handful of home games interstate in Sydney. The move proved unsuccessful, and the club has since played in Canberra for several years (2002-2006) before abandoning the area for the more lucrative, and potential goldmine at the Gold Coast, Queensland (2007 onwards).
• Melbourne Football Club - a single home game a year to the Brisbane Lions at the Brisbane Cricket Ground in Queensland (2005-2007). The Demons added a single game to Gold Coast, Queensland in Queensland in 2006. In 2007, the Demons shifted its Gold Coast commitment to Canberra for a single game each year whilst also playing one game a year in Brisbane.

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NRL

The NRL is the national competition in rugby league and was born out of the Sydney based Australian Rugby League and New South Wales Rugby League competitions. In 1987, the Western Suburbs Magpies agreed to relocate from its (inner) Western suburbs base to the outer south-western Macarthur district. In 1999, they merged with the remaining Inner Western team, the Balmain Tigers, (both teams having been established in 1908) to become Wests Tigers. The North Sydney Bears attempted to move from their Northern Suburbs base to the swiftly growing Central Coast region just north of Sydney in 1999, however problems with construction at the proposed home ground now known as Bluetongue Central Coast Stadium meant that the Bears continued to play home matches in a variety of Sydney grounds before being forced into a merger with the Manly Sea Eagles as the Northern Eagles. The merged clubs played home matches at both the Central Coast and Manly's home ground of Brookvale Oval, but after the bears were expelled from the partnership, poor crowds at the former location led to a reversion to the name of Manly and games played exclusively at Brookvale Oval. Subsequently one of the owners of Bluetongue Central Coast Stadium, John Singleton, has attempted to lure another club to play there, notably the South Sydney Rabbitohs whom have experienced poor crowds at their new home ground of Telstra Stadium. Rugby league football (usually shortened to rugby league, football, league or rugby) is a full-contact team sport played with a prolate spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. ... The Australian Rugby League (ARL) is the governing body for the sport of rugby league in Australia. ... The New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) is the governing body for the sport of rugby league in New South Wales. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... The Western Suburbs Magpies are a rugby league club in Sydney, Australia. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... The Balmain Tigers (also known as the Sydney Tigers from 1994-98) were one of the founding clubs of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership and one of the most successful in the history of that competition with eleven premierships. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Wests Tigers are an Australian professional rugby league football club in the National Rugby League (NRL), the premier rugby league football competition in Australasia. ... The North Sydney Bears where a former club in the New South Wales Rugby League, the predecessor of the National Rugby League as the premier Australian rugby league competition. ... The Central Coast is an urban region in the Australian state of New South Wales, located on the coastline north of Sydney and south of Lake Macquarie and Newcastle. ... Bluetongue Central Coast Stadium at night Bluetongue Central Coast Stadium (formerly known as Northpower Stadium and Central Coast Express Advocate Stadium) is a sports venue on Grahame Park in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. ... The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles are a team in the National Rugby League (NRL), the premier rugby league football competition in Australia. ... The Northern Eagles were a short-lived Rugby League team, formed during the rationalisation of the National Rugby League by the merger of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the North Sydney Bears, in 2000. ... Brookvale Oval is a sporting ground located at Brookvale, New South Wales, Australia. ... John Daniel Singleton (born January 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an African-American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ... The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional rugby league team based in Sydney, New South Wales. ... This page is for Telstra Stadium, Sydney. ...

Other clubs have relocated to new home grounds but have retained their original base.

Relocations in other parts of the world

Relocations in other countries are done according to the type of sport played and/or the predominant style of league organization, as well as individual economic circumstances. For instance, Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan (run like MLB) has relocated several franchises out of crowded markets, the most recent being Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters (originally based in Tokyo) and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (originally based in Osaka). The J. League (also in Japan but run like European football leagues) has allowed some teams to move out of crowded or unprofitable markets, such as Tokyo Verdy 1969 moving from Kawasaki, Kanagawa to Tokyo. Part of the History of baseball series. ... The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters ) are a professional baseball team in Japans Pacific League. ...   , literally Eastern capital) is a unique subnational administrative region of Japan with characteristics of both a prefecture and a city. ... The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks ) is a Japanese baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. ... Osaka )   is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of HonshÅ«. The city is the capital of Osaka Prefecture. ... The Japan Professional Football League ), or J.LEAGUE ), is the top professional football (soccer) league in Japan and one of the most successful leagues in Asian club football. ... Tokyo Verdy 1969 ) is a football team which plays in Division 2 of Japans J. League. ... This article is about the Japanese city. ...

In Mexico, the Atlante football club recently moved out of Mexico City to Cancún in the south (Primera División de México has a relegation system but its teams have some territorial rights recognized, perhaps due to U.S. influence as many league matches are aired in the U.S., where only traditional top flight teams are perceived to reach the immigrant fanbase more efficiently). Relocations are also common when an amateur or semi-professional club tries to acquire its own facilities in order to become a professional club, and no money and/or space is available to build their own in a long-established location. In Peru several teams have had to use already built large stadiums, including ones in the interior of the country, to be able to participate in Primera División Peruana; this includes several teams from the capital, Lima, who have not been able to establish fanbases in their districts due to the required moves. Categories: Football (soccer) stubs | Mexican football clubs ... Nickname: Location of Mexico City in central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Mexico Federal entity Federal District Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded (as Tenochtitlan) c. ... Giant Mexican flag in the Hotel Zone Cancún (pronounced as IPA: ) is a coastal city in Mexicos easternmost state, Quintana Roo. ... La Primera División del Futbol Mexicano is the premier football championship established by the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación in the Mexican League System. ... The Primera División Peruana (Peruvian First Division) is the top category of Peruvian football (soccer), and its organized by the Federación Peruana de Fútbol. ... This article is about Lima, Peru. ...

In Korea, Anyang football club moved to Seoul in 2004 without any fore notice. In 2006, Bucheon football club followed same way on same day (February 2nd) and moved to Jeju Island. Both clubs are owned by GS Group and SK Corporation. By that reason, they did it without any discussion with fans. It made most of Korean football fans to call them as Nothern Immoral(Seoul)FC and Southern Immoral(Jeju) FC. They did it just one month before the beginning of season. Korean football fans call February 2nd as black day of Korean football. Korea (Korean: 한국 in South Korea or ì¡°ì„  in North Korea, see below) is a geographic area, civilization, and former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. ... Anyang (Simplified Chinese: 安阳, Traditional Chinese: 安陽; pinyin: Ä€nyáng) is a prefecture-level city in Henan province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Seoul   is the capital of South Korea and is located on the Han River in the countrys northwest. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Bucheon City Hall. ... Jeju is the largest island and smallest province in South Korea, and the name of islands largest city and provincial capital (see Jeju City). ... GS Group is a Korean company, associated with the LG Group. ... SK Corporation (KSE: 3600) is a Korean-based Chaebol or conglomerate. ...

External links

• "Modell Announces Browns' Move to Baltimore" by Charles Babington and Ken Denlinger, The Washington Post, Nov. 7, 1995.
• "Major League Baseball Franchises" by Andrew C. Clem, 2005.
• "NFL Franchise Chronology" by Hickok Sports, 2004.
• "NBA Franchise History" by Hickok Sports, 2004.
• "National Hockey League (NHL) Expansion History" by Razulu's Street, 2004.

See also

• Professional sports league organization