These are notable sports leagues which are no longer operating. Australia Australian football Tasmanian Football League (TFL, 1879–2000) Victorian Football Association (VFA, 1877-1995) Baseball Australian Baseball League (1989–1999) Rugby league Super League merged with the Australian Rugby League in 1998 to form the National Rugby League City Cup Rugby union Australian Rugby Championship Soccer National Soccer League Canada Auto racing Canadian Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (CASCAR 1981–2006; replaced by the series now known as the NASCAR Pinty's Series) Baseball Canadian Baseball League (CBL 2003) Provincial League (1935–1955) Basketball National Basketball League (Canada) (NBL 1993-94) Ice hockey Coloured Hockey League (1895–1925) Federal Amateur Hockey League (1903–09) (professional in 1908–09) Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (1906–09) (professional in 1908–09) Manitoba Professional Hockey League (MPHL 1907–09) National Hockey Association (NHA 1909–17) Canadian Hockey Association (CHA 1909–10) Interprovincial Professional Hockey League (IPHL 1910–11) Maritime Professional Hockey League (MaPHL 1911–14) Eastern Professional Hockey League (EPHL 1914–15) Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA 1911–24) Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL 1921–26) International Hockey League (IHL 1945–2001) World Hockey Association (WHA 1972–79) - merged with National Hockey League (NHL) Roller Hockey International (RHI 1993–97, 1999) Soccer Canadian Soccer League (CSL 1987-92) Canadian National Soccer League (CNSL 1922-97) New Zealand Rugby union National Provincial Championship (NPC, 1976–2005; professional from 1996) Replaced by the current Bunnings National Provincial Championship (previously Air New Zealand Cup, ITM Cup and Mitre 10 Cup) and Heartland Championship in 2006. Although the NPC as a single entity is defunct, its basic structure was largely revived in 2011 with the split of the then-ITM Cup into two divisions. The main difference between the current NPC and its original version is that no promotion from the Heartland Championship to the Bunnings NPC is currently possible. The original NPC featured promotion and/or relegation (or at least the possibility thereof) at all three levels. Russia Ice hockey Russian Super League (1996–2008) Replaced by the Kontinental Hockey League in 2008. The KHL also launched with teams from Belarus, Latvia, and Kazakhstan. As of the current 2018–19 season, it includes teams in all of its original countries, as well as China, Finland, and Slovakia. At various times in its history, it has also had teams in Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine. South Africa Rugby union Vodacom Cup (1998–2015) Second tier of domestic professional rugby, behind the Currie Cup, although the competition occasionally included teams from Argentina and Namibia as