There are 13 U.S. metropolitan areas with sports teams competing in the four major leagues: Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, National Football League and National Basketball Association. Only the country's two largest metropolitan areas—New York and Los Angeles—have at least two teams in each major sports league. Overview by city Italicized teams play outside the city limits of the metropolitan area's core city or cities; the specific location is given in parentheses. The core city or cities of a metropolitan area are identified in this reference. Analysis Principal city versus metropolitan areas The only metropolitan areas with a team in each sport that plays within the limits of its principal city are Chicago, Denver, Detroit, and Philadelphia. Chicago, with its two MLB teams, is the only one of these with five teams playing within city limits. (All are named for the city.) In the Twin Cities area, three of the teams play in Minneapolis and one plays in St. Paul, although all four teams are named for the state of Minnesota, not their cities. All other areas have at least one sport represented solely by a team (or teams) that plays in a city's suburbs. Los Angeles had teams from all four major sports play within its city limits from 2016, when the NFL's Rams moved to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, until 2020, when they moved into a new stadium in Inglewood. Los Angeles now has four major sports teams playing within city limits: two NBA, one NHL and one MLB team. (Seven of its metropolitan area's eight teams named after it, all except the NHL's Anaheim Ducks.) New York City has nine major sports teams and five playing within its city limits, but both its NFL teams (the New York Giants and New York Jets) play in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (All of the New York teams except the NHL's New Jersey Devils and the NBA's Brooklyn Nets are named for the city.) Regional distribution Each of the four census regions of the United States established by the United States Census Bureau contains at least three of the metropolitan areas with at least one team in each of the four major sports. Three of the areas are in the Northeastern United States (New York, Boston, and Philadelphia), three are in the Midwestern United States (Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis-St. Paul), three are in the Southern United States (Washington,