Team Sports

3x3 Basketball is FIBA's fast, half-court basketball discipline played by two teams of three players (plus one substitute each) on a single basket. Born in the streetball tradition and formalized as an Olympic sport at Tokyo 2020, 3x3 has its own complete rule set, its own world rankings, its own...

The National Football League (NFL) is the premier professional American football league in the world, consisting of 32 teams divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). Founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) governs college football in the United States across three divisions: Division I (subdivided into FBS and FCS), Division II, and Division III. The NCAA was founded in 1906, largely in response to the dangerous nature of early football — Presiden...

Association football, known as soccer in several countries, is the world's most popular sport, played by an estimated 250 million players in over 200 countries. The Laws of the Game are maintained by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), which was founded in 1886 and consists of FI...

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The sport is governed at the professional level in the United States and Canada by Major League Baseball (MLB), whose Official Baseball Rules (OBR) constitute the authoritative ruleset for professional play. The editi...

NCAA baseball is the collegiate form of baseball, played by member institutions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association across Divisions I, II, and III. Competition is conducted under the NCAA Baseball Rules of the Game, published as a rules book on a two-year cycle (the current edition b...

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the premier professional basketball league in the world, featuring 30 teams divided into two conferences — the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference — each comprising three divisions of five teams. The NBA is widely regarded as the highest leve...

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is the premier professional women's basketball league in the world. The league was approved by the NBA Board of Governors in April 1996 and tipped off its inaugural season on June 21, 1997. The WNBA operates as a separate legal entity affiliated ...

The International Basketball Federation (FIBA, from French: Fédération Internationale de Basketball) is the world governing body for basketball. Founded on June 18, 1932 in Geneva, Switzerland, FIBA oversees international basketball competition and sets the official rules used in all internationa...

NCAA Men's Basketball is the collegiate variant of basketball played under the rules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. NCAA men's basketball differs meaningfully from FIBA (international) and NBA (professional) rules — most notably in the use of two 20-minute halves rather than qua...

NCAA Women's Basketball is the collegiate variant of women's basketball played under the rules of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. NCAA women's basketball differs from NCAA men's basketball in several key ways: four 10-minute quarters (vs. two 20-minute halves in M's, since 2015-16),...

Beach volleyball is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), founded in 1947 and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. The sport operates under the FIVB Official Beach Volleyball Rules 2025–2028. While the FIVB governs both indoor and beach volleyball, the two disciplines...

NCAA Beach Volleyball is the collegiate variant of beach volleyball played as a dual-team competition between paired student-athletes. Each NCAA dual-meet contest is a head-to-head competition between two universities, scored by individual pairs matches contested simultaneously on adjacent courts...

Bo-taoshi (棒倒し, literally "pole toppling") is a large-scale Japanese team sport played annually at the National Defense Academy (NDA) of Japan in Yokosuka, Kanagawa. It is contested as the centerpiece of the Academy's annual Kiryu-sai (桐葉祭) festival, which has run continuously since the NDA's fou...

The Canadian Football League (CFL) is the professional football league in Canada and the second-oldest professional gridiron football league in North America. The Grey Cup, the CFL's championship trophy, has been awarded since 1909 — predating the NFL's first championship by over a decade.

The NBA Creator Cup is an NBA-sanctioned basketball tournament featuring social-media creators and digital influencers competing in an officially-branded competitive event. Announced as a permanent NBA programming property in 2024, the Creator Cup builds on years of informal creator basketball co...

Cricket is governed internationally by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The Laws of Cricket are maintained by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which holds the copyright and acts as the global custodian of the Laws on behalf of the worldwide cricket community. The current governing docum...

Twenty20 (T20) is the shortest format of international cricket, with each side batting for 20 overs. Introduced as an international format in 2005 and as a World Cup in 2007, T20 is the format selected for cricket's return to the Olympic program at the 2028 Los Angeles Games — cricket's first Oly...

NCAA Field Hockey is the collegiate variant of women's field hockey contested in the fall semester at NCAA Division I, II, and III. NCAA Field Hockey uses the International Hockey Federation (FIH) rule baseline with NCAA-specific modifications around match length, substitution count, video review...

Flag Football under NFHS is the non-contact, flag-based variant of American football sanctioned by the National Federation of State High School Associations for use in U.S. high school athletic programs. It is one of the fastest-growing high school sports in the U.S. — over 20 state associations ...

The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) governs international flag football, including the IFAF Flag Football World Championship (every 2 years) and qualification pathway for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, where flag football debuts as an Olympic medal sport. The IFAF 5-on-5...

Handball is governed by the International Handball Federation (IHF), founded in 1946 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. The sport operates under the IHF Rules of the Game (latest edition August 2024). With over 200 member federations, handball ranks among the most widely played team sports ...

The National Hockey League (NHL) is the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, consisting of 32 teams across the United States and Canada — including the Utah Mammoth, who joined the league in 2024 as the 32nd franchise. Founded in 1917, the NHL governs its competition under a compr...

Lacrosse is one of the oldest team sports in North America, originating with Indigenous peoples long before European contact. The modern international game is governed by World Lacrosse (formerly the Federation of International Lacrosse, FIL), the international federation recognized by the Intern...

NCAA Men's Lacrosse is the collegiate variant of men's field lacrosse played under the National Collegiate Athletic Association's competition rules. NCAA men's field lacrosse is a fast, full-contact ten-on-ten field sport in which players use long-handled sticks with mesh heads to catch, carry, p...

NCAA Women's Lacrosse is the collegiate variant of women's field lacrosse played under the National Collegiate Athletic Association's competition rules. NCAA women's field lacrosse is a fast, twelve-on-twelve field sport in which players use stringed-pocket sticks to catch, carry, pass, and shoot...

Lacrosse Sixes is the shortened-format variant of lacrosse developed by World Lacrosse to provide a faster, smaller-field, more spectator-friendly version of the game suitable for international and Olympic competition. The format was approved for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games as the lacrosse...

Netball is a fast-paced indoor team sport played by two teams of seven, in which players move the ball by passing it from one to another and attempt to score goals by shooting the ball through a 3.05 m elevated ring at the opposing end of the court. Netball traces its origin to early adaptations ...

Rugby Union is a full-contact team sport governed by World Rugby (formerly the International Rugby Board, IRB), headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The sport is played under the World Rugby Laws of the Game, the current edition of which is the 2024 edition (effective January 1, 2024), incorporating...

The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is the top division of women's professional soccer in the United States, founded in 2012 and entering its fourteenth season in 2026. The 2026 season expanded the league to sixteen clubs with the addition of two expansion sides — Boston Legacy FC and Denve...

NCAA Soccer is the collegiate variant of association football played by NCAA Division I, II, and III institutions across both men's and women's brackets. NCAA Soccer is governed by the NCAA Soccer Rules Book, which sits on top of the IFAB Laws of the Game with NCAA-specific modifications around c...

Major League Soccer (MLS) is the top division of men's professional soccer in the United States and Canada, competing in the league's 31st season in 2026. The 2026 MLS season comprises 30 clubs split evenly between the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference, each playing a 34-match regular...

NCAA softball is the collegiate form of fastpitch softball, played by member institutions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association across Divisions I, II, and III. Competition is conducted under the NCAA Softball Rules of the Game, published as a rules book on a two-year cycle (the current...

Ultimate (often colloquially "Ultimate Frisbee") is a non-contact, self-officiated team sport played with a flying disc. USA Ultimate (USAU) is the recognized national governing body in the United States; the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) governs internationally and is recognized by the Int...

Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA. Originally called "Mintonette," the sport was designed as a less physically demanding alternative to basketball. The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) was founded on April 18, 1947, in Pa...

NCAA Men's Volleyball is the spring-season collegiate variant of indoor men's volleyball, contested January through May at NCAA Division I and III (NCAA D2 men's volleyball is contested as a separate level). The NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship is contested in early May. NCAA M's Volleyball use...

NCAA Women's Volleyball is the collegiate variant of indoor volleyball played in the fall semester at NCAA Divisions I, II, and III. NCAA W's Volleyball uses the FIVB rule baseline with NCAA-specific modifications: best-of-5 set match format, NCAA libero rules, NCAA-specific video challenge frame...