Sports in Massachusetts

Gillette Stadium, located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, is the home stadium of the NFL's New England Patriots and MLS' New England Revolution Alumni Stadium, located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, is the home stadium of the Boston College Eagles Fall River, Massachusetts native, Bert Patenaude (front row, center), scored the first hat-trick in FIFA World Cup history in 1930 for the United States.

Sports in Massachusetts have a long history with both amateur athletics and professional teams. Most of the major professional teams have won multiple championships in their respective leagues. For instance, as of July 2025, Massachusetts teams have won 6 Stanley Cups (Boston Bruins),[1] 18 NBA Championships (Boston Celtics),[2] 6 Super Bowls (New England Patriots),[3] and 10 World Series (9 Boston Red Sox, 1 Boston Braves).[4] Additionally, the New England Revolution won the U.S. Open Cup in 2007[5] and the MLS Supporter's Shield in 2021.[6] Massachusetts is also notable for being the birthplace of both basketball and volleyball,[7] and it is home to the Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield) and the Volleyball Hall of Fame (Holyoke).[8] Moreover, the state hosts the Cape Cod Baseball League[9] and prestigious sports events such as the Boston Marathon[10][11] and the Head of the Charles Regatta (Boston).[12] Other popular sports events in Massachusetts include the Falmouth Road Race in running, which started in 1973,[13] and the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, an annual bicycle race held from 1960 to 2020.[14]

The Greater Boston region is the only city/surrounding area in American professional sports in which all facilities are privately owned and operated.[citation needed] The Kraft Sports Group, which holds ownership of both the Patriots and New England Revolution (a Major League Soccer team), owns Gillette Stadium located in Foxborough, Massachusetts.[15][16] Fenway Sports Group, led by principal owner John W. Henry, owns both Fenway Park and the Boston Red Sox.[17][18] TD Garden is owned by Delaware North,[19] and its chairman, Jeremy M. Jacobs, along with his family, owns the Bruins.[20][21] The Celtics rent TD Garden from Delaware North.[22]

The PGA Tour Deutsche Bank Championship was a regular professional golf tournament held from 2003 to 2018 in Norton, Massachusetts.[23] As of July 2025, Massachusetts has played host to ten U.S. Opens,[24] four U.S. Women's Opens,[25] two Ryder Cups,[26] and two U.S. Senior Open.[27]

Massachusetts is home to many colleges and universities that are active in college athletics,[28] hosting several NCAA Division I (D-I) institutions that compete in multiple sports. The D-I schools include Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University, Harvard University, College of the Holy Cross, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Merrimack College, and Stonehill College.[29][28]

## Notable athletes from Massachusetts

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Massachusetts has produced several successful Olympians including Thomas Burke, James Connolly, and John Thomas (track & field); Butch Johnson (archery); Nancy Kerrigan (figure skating); Todd Richards (snowboarding); Albina Osipowich (swimming); Aly Raisman (gymnastics); Patrick Ewing (basketball); as well as Jim Craig, Mike Eruzione, Bill Cleary, and Keith Tkachuk (ice hockey).[30][31]

Notable soccer (or association football) players from Massachusetts include Bert Patenaude, Billy Gonsalves, Geoff Cameron, Miles Robinson, Sam Mewis, and Kristie Mewis. Patenaude and Gonsalves, both inductees of the National Soccer Hall of Fame and natives of Fall River, Massachusetts,[32][33] played for the U.S. men's national team at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930 (hosted in Uruguay). Patenaude scored the first hat-trick in World Cup history.[34] The USMNT finished in third place.[35]

### Sports Illustrated's 50 Greatest Sports Figures from Massachusetts

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In 1999, Sports Illustrated published the fifty (50) greatest 19th and 20th century sports figures from each U.S. state. The criteria used was "not necessarily to where [the athletes] were born, but to where they first showed flashes of the greatness to come." The ten highest ranked Massachusetts athletes were as follows:[36]

Rank  | Name  | Sport  | Hometown  | Notes

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1\.  | Rocky Marciano | Boxing  | Brockton, MA | Held the world heavyweight title from 1952 to 1956
2\.  | Doug Flutie | American football  | Natick, MA | Played at Boston College; won the Heisman Trophy in 1984
3\.  | Patrick Ewing | Basketball  | Cambridge, MA | Played at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School; 2× Olympic gold medalist (1984, 1992);
selected as one of the 75 Greatest Players in NBA History in 2021; Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
4\.  | Bobby Carpenter | Ice hockey  | Beverly, MA | First U.S. player to jump from high school to NHL (in 1981)
5\.  | Rebecca Lobo | Basketball  | Southwick, MA | Massachusetts' all-time leading high school basketball scorer (boys and girls); Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
6\.  | Alberto Salazar | Track & field  | Wayland, MA | 3× New York Marathon winner (1980–82); Boston Marathon winner (1982)
7\.  | Tom Glavine | Baseball  | Billerica, MA | 2× NL Cy Young Award (1991, 1998); 1995 World Series MVP; Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
8\.  | Pie Traynor | Baseball  | Somerville, MA | Posted a career batting average of .320; Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
9\.  | Harry Agganis | Baseball
American football  | Lynn, MA | Played at Boston University; Boston Red Sox (1954–55); College Football Hall of Fame inductee
10\.  | Johnny Kelley | Track & field  | Arlington, MA | Olympian; competed in the Boston Marathon over 50 times (winning twice)

* Rocky Marciano
(Boxer)

* Doug Flutie
(American football)

* Patrick Ewing
(Basketball Hall of Famer)

* Aly Raisman
(Olympic gymnast)

## Major League Professional Teams

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See also: Sports in Boston

### Current teams

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Club  | League  | Sport  | Venue (capacity)  | Founded  | Championships

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Boston Red Sox | MLB | Baseball | Fenway Park (37,500)  | 1901  | 9 World Series
Boston Bruins | NHL | Ice Hockey | TD Garden (17,565)  | 1924  | 6 Stanley Cups
Boston Celtics | NBA | Basketball | TD Garden (18,625)  | 1946  | 18 NBA titles
New England Patriots | NFL | Football | Gillette Stadium (68,750)  | 1960  | 6 Super Bowls
New England Revolution | MLS | Soccer | 1995  | 0 MLS Cups; 1 Supporters' Shield

### Former teams

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Club  | League  | Sport  | Venue (capacity)  | Founded  | Dissolved  | Championships

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Boston Braves | MLB | Baseball  | Braves Field (40,000)  | 1871  | 1952  | 1 World Series
Worcester Brown Stockings | Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds | 1880  | 1882  |
Boston Reds | Congress Street Grounds | 1890  | 1891  |
Boston Bulldogs | NFL | Football  | Braves Field (40,000)  | 1929  | 1929  |
Boston Redskins | Fenway Park (35,000)  | 1932  | 1936  |
Boston Yanks | 1944  | 1948  |
Boston Breakers | USFL | Nickerson Field (15,000)  | 1983  | 1984  |
Boston Rovers | NASL | Soccer  | Manning Bowl (21,000)  | 1967  | 1967  |
Boston Beacons | Fenway Park (33,375)  | 1968  | 1968  |
Boston Minutemen | Alumni Stadium (30,000)
Nickerson Field (15,000)  | 1974  | 1976  |
New England Tea Men | Foxboro Stadium (60,000)  | 1978  | 1980  |
New England Whalers | WHA | Ice Hockey  | Boston Garden (14,448)  | 1972  | 1974  | 1 Avco World Trophy

## Major league professional championships

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### Boston Red Sox (MLB)

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9 World Series titles

* 1903
* 1912
* 1915
* 1916
* 1918
* 2004
* 2007
* 2013
* 2018

### Boston Braves (MLB)

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1 World Series title

* 1914

### New England Patriots (NFL)

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6 Super Bowl titles

* 2001 (XXXVI)
* 2003 (XXXVIII)
* 2004 (XXXIX)
* 2014 (XLIX)
* 2016 (LI)
* 2018 (LIII)

### Boston Celtics (NBA)

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18 NBA Finals titles

* 1957
* 1959
* 1960
* 1961
* 1962
* 1963
* 1964
* 1965
* 1966
* 1968
* 1969
* 1974
* 1976
* 1981
* 1984
* 1986
* 2008
* 2024

### Boston Bruins (NHL)

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6 Stanley Cup titles

* 1929
* 1939
* 1941
* 1970
* 1972
* 2011

### New England Whalers (WHA)

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1 Avco World Trophy

* 1973

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## Minor League or Semi-Professional Clubs

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The Fall River Rovers soccer club (a semi-professional club in the Southern New England Soccer League) after winning the 1917 U.S. Open Cup

### Other professional teams

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Club  | League  | Sport  | Venue (capacity)  | Founded  | Championships

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Boston Fleet | PWHL | Ice Hockey | Tsongas Center (6,500)  | 2023  |
Boston Cannons | PLL | Lacrosse | "Barnstorming"  | 2001  | 2 Steinfeld Trophies (MLL)

2 PLL Championship Series Trophies

Boston Guard  | WLL | 2025  | 1 WLL Championship Trophy
Boston Legacy FC | NWSL | Soccer | White Stadium (10,519)  | 2026  |
New England Free Jacks | MLR | Rugby Union | Veterans Memorial Stadium (5,000)  | 2018  | 3 MLR Shields
Boston Glory | UFA | Ultimate | Hormel Stadium  | 2019  |
Massachusetts Pirates | IFL | Indoor Football | Tsongas Center (6,500)  | 2017  | 1 IFL National Championship

### Minor league teams

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Club  | Pro Affiliate  | League  | Conference / Division  | Sport  | Venue (Capacity)  | Founded  | Championships

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Worcester Red Sox | Boston Red Sox | International | East  | Baseball | Polar Park (9,508)  | 2021  | 4 Governors' Cup (As PawSox)
Brockton Rox | Independent  | Frontier | Atlantic  | Campanelli Stadium (4,750)  | 2024  | 0 Frontier League Championships
Springfield Thunderbirds | St. Louis Blues (NHL) / Florida Everblades (ECHL)  | AHL | Eastern / Atlantic  | Ice Hockey  | MassMutual Center (6,800)  | 1975  | 0 Calder Cup
Worcester Railers | New York Islanders (NHL) / Bridgeport Islanders (AHL)  | ECHL | Eastern / North  | DCU Center (12,135)  | 2017  | 0 Kelly Cup
New England Revolution II | New England Revolution | MLS Next Pro | Eastern  | Soccer  | Gillette Stadium (68,750)  | 2019  | 0 MLS Next Pro Championships

## College sports

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Holy Cross takes on Boston College in 1916 at Fenway Park. Boston College won the game, 17–14. Robert F. Kennedy, a native of Brookline, Massachusetts and brother of President John F. Kennedy, was an end at Milton Academy and Harvard Julius "Dr. J." Erving playing at UMass during the 1970–71 season The Holy Cross Crusaders won the NCAA basketball championship in 1947, defeating Oklahoma 58-47. Bob Cousy (All-American and NBA Hall-of-Famer) is in the front row, second from left

### NCAA: Divisions I and II

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Boston College | Eagles | I  | Atlantic Coast Conference/Hockey East
Boston University | Terriers | I  | Patriot League/Hockey East
Northeastern University | Huskies | I  | Coastal Athletic Association/Hockey East
Harvard University | Crimson | I  | Ivy League/ECAC Hockey
College of the Holy Cross | Crusaders | I  | Patriot League/Atlantic Hockey America/Hockey East
University of Massachusetts Amherst | Minutemen/
Minutewomen | I  | Mid-American Conference/Hockey East
University of Massachusetts Lowell | River Hawks | I  | America East Conference/Hockey East[37]
Merrimack College | Warriors | I  | Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference/FCS independent (football)/Hockey East
Stonehill College | Skyhawks | I  | Northeast Conference/Independent (men's ice hockey)/New England Women's Hockey Alliance
American International College | Yellow Jackets | I/II  | Atlantic Hockey America[a]/Northeast-10 Conference
Bentley University | Falcons | I/II  | Atlantic Hockey America/Northeast-10 Conference
Assumption University | Greyhounds | I/II  | Northeast-10 Conference/New England Women's Hockey Alliance

In addition to the schools listed here, Franklin Pierce University, a full Division II member located near the state border in Rindge, New Hampshire, plays its men's and women's ice hockey home games in Massachusetts on the campus of The Winchendon School. FPU plays men's hockey in the Northeast-10 and women's hockey as a D-I program in the New England Women's Hockey Alliance.

1. ^ Leaving Division I men's ice hockey in July 2025, aligning that team with the rest of its athletic program in the Division II Northeast-10 Conference.

### NCAA: Division III

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School  | Nickname  | Division  | Conference

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Amherst College | Mammoths  | III  | Eastern College Athletic Conference/New England Small College Athletic Conference
Anna Maria College | Amcats | III  | Great Northeast Athletic Conference/Eastern Collegiate Football Conference[a]
Babson College | Beavers  | III  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Brandeis University | Judges | III  | University Athletic Association/Intercollegiate Fencing Association
Bridgewater State University | Bears | III  | Eastern College Athletic Conference/Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference/
Little East Conference
Clark University | Cougars  | III  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Curry College | Colonels  | III  | Conference of New England
Dean College | Bulldogs  | III  | Great Northeast Athletic Conference/Eastern Collegiate Football Conference[a]
Eastern Nazarene College | Lions  | III  | North Atlantic Conference[b]
Elms College | Blazers  | III  | Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Emerson College | Lions  | III  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference/Eastern College Athletic Conference
Emmanuel College | Saints  | III  | Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Endicott College | Gulls  | III  | Conference of New England/New England Volleyball Conference
Fitchburg State University | Falcons  | III  | Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
Framingham State University | Rams | III  | Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference
Gordon College | Fighting Scots  | III  | Conference of New England
Lasell University | Lasers  | III  | Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Lesley University | Lynx  | III  | North Atlantic Conference
Mount Holyoke College | Lyons  | III  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts | Trailblazers  | III  | Eastern College Athletic Conference/Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference
Massachusetts Maritime Academy | Buccaneers  | III  | Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference/New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Engineers | III/I  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference/Patriot League/Collegiate Water Polo Association
Nichols College | Bison  | III  | Conference of New England/New England Volleyball Conference
Regis College | Pride  | III  | Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Salem State University | Vikings | III  | Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference
Simmons University | Sharks  | III  | Great Northeast Athletic Conference/North Atlantic Conference
Smith College | Pioneers  | III  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Springfield College | Pride  | III  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Suffolk University | Rams  | III  | Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Tufts University | Jumbos | III  | New England Small College Athletic Conference
University of Massachusetts Boston | Beacons  | III  | Little East Conference/New England Hockey Conference
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | Corsairs  | III  | Little East Conference/Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference
Wellesley College | Blues  | III  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Wentworth Institute of Technology | Panthers  | III  | Conference of New England/Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Western New England University | Golden Bears  | III  | Conference of New England
Westfield State University | Owls  | III  | Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference
Wheaton College, Massachusetts | Lyons | III  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Williams College | Ephs | III / I  | New England Small College Athletic Conference
Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Engineers | III  | New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
Worcester State University | Lancers  | III  | Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference

1. ^ a b The Eastern Collegiate Football Conference disbanded at the end of the 2024 football season. Anna Maria and Dean will play football in the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference starting in 2025.
2. ^ Eastern Nazarene will close at the end of the 2024–25 academic year.

### NAIA

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School  | Nickname  | Conference

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Fisher College | Falcons  | Independent

### USCAA

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School  | Nickname  | Conference

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Bay Path University | Wildcats  | Independent
Hampshire College | Black Sheep  | Yankee Small College Conference

### NJCAA Division II

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School  | Nickname  | Region

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Massasoit Community College | Warriors  | 21

### NJCAA Division III

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School  | Nickname  | Region

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Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology | Shockers  | 21
Bristol Community College | Bayhawks  | 21
Bunker Hill Community College | Bulldogs  | 21
Holyoke Community College | Cougars  | 21
Mass Bay Community College | Buccaneers  | 21
Northern Essex Community College | Knights  | 21
Quinsigamond Community College | Chiefs  | 21
Roxbury Community College | Tigers  | 21
Springfield Technical Community College | Rams  | 21

## High school

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Matt Hasselbeck (Pro-Bowl NFL quarterback) playing at Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts

Main article: Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association

The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) is an organization that sponsors activities in thirty-three sports, comprising 374 public and private high schools in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The MIAA is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), which writes the rules for most U.S. high school sports and activities. The MIAA was founded in 1978, and was preceded by both the Massachusetts Secondary School Principals' Association (MSSPA) (1942–78) and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Council (MIAC) (1950–78).

Rugby is the MIAA's 35th sport in 2016, following a 2015 MIAA vote that passed by a wide majority.[38] As of 2015, there are 19 boys’ teams and 5 girls’ teams across the state, with the majority of the Catholic Conference schools fielding rugby teams.[38]

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## External links

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| NCAA
Division I|

Bentley Falcons
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Stonehill Skyhawks
UMass Minutemen and Minutewomen
UMass Lowell River Hawks

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NCAA
Division II|

American International Yellow Jackets
Assumption Greyhounds
Bentley Falcons

NCAA
Division III|

Amherst Mammoths
Anna Maria Amcats
Babson Beavers
Brandeis Judges
Bridgewater State Bears
Clark Cougars
Curry Colonels
Dean Bulldogs
Eastern Nazarene Lions
Elms Blazers
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Emmanuel Saints
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UMass Dartmouth Corsairs
Wellesley Blue
Wentworth Leopards
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Westfield State Owls
Wheaton Lyons
Williams Ephs
WPI Engineers
Worcester State Lancers

NAIA

Fisher Falcons

USCAA

Bay Path Wildcats
Hampshire Black Sheep

NJCAA Division II

Massasoit Warriors

NJCAA Division III

Benjamin Franklin Shockers
Bristol Bayhawks
Bunker Hill Bulldogs
Holyoke Cougars
Massachusetts Bay Buccaneers
Northern Essex Knights
Quinsigamond Chiefs
Roxbury Tigers
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