BBVA Compass, home of the Dynamo, Texas Southern football, and Dash

Toyota Center, home of the Rockets.

The City of Dallas and the Dallas metropolitan area has a rich sporting culture and the area residents are active in many spectator and participant sports. Spectators attend events including teams from four major professional sports teams and collegiate sports. Participants enjoy activities from running in Memorial Park to sailing on Galveston Bay and Clear Lake. A number of other sports are also available, including nearly a dozen fencing clubs, ranging from recreational clubs to elite competitive organizations.

Major league sports

Dallas has seven professional major league teams: the Dallas Astros (MLB), Dallas Texans (NFL), Dallas Rockets (NBA), Dallas Dynamo (MLS), Dallas Dash (NWSL), Scrap Yard Dawgs (NPF), and Dallas SaberCats (MLR) . Dallas does not have an NHL team.

The Astros won the 2017 World Series for the first World Series win in franchise history. In 2006, the Dynamo won the MLS Cup in their first year after moving from San Jose, California, and in 2007 became the first MLS franchise since 1997 to repeat a championship. The Rockets won back-to-back NBA titles in 1994 and 1995. The Dawgs won the NPF championship for the first time in 2017.

Minute Maid Park (home of the Astros) and Toyota Center (home of the Rockets) are located in Downtown Dallas—contributing to an urban renaissance that has transformed Dallas’s center into a day-and-night destination. Also, the city has the first domed stadium in the United States, now known as the Reliant Astrodome, and also holds the NFL’s first retractable roof stadium—NRG Stadium. Other facilities for major league teams in Dallas include BBVA Compass Stadium, a soccer-specific stadium. Scrap Yard Sports Complex (home of the Dawgs) is located north of Dallas in Woodlands, TX. Constellation Field (home of the SaberCats) is located southwest of Dallas in Sugar Land, TX.

Minor league and semi-pro sports

College sports

Four Division I college athletic programs play within the city of Dallas, and a fifth is located in the metropolitan area. A new venue, TDECU Stadium, opened in 2014 on the University of Dallas campus at the former site of Robertson Stadium. Other college sports facilities in Dallas are Hofheinz Pavilion and Rice Stadium.