Sports in Missouri

Missouri hosts a number of sports teams. Missouri is home to six major league professional sports teams — three in the St. Louis metropolitan area, and three in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Missouri hosted the 1904 Summer Olympics at Washington University in St. Louis, the first time the games were hosted in the United States.

Major league sports teams

 * * — Team represents a location in the state but plays its home games outside the state boundaries.

College sports
There are six NCAA Division I teams in the state, one of which started a transition from NCAA Division II in July 2022. The only D-I program in the Football Bowl Subdivision is the Missouri Tigers, with the Missouri State Bears and Lady Bears joining them in 2025. As of the 2023–24 school year, 13 schools play in NCAA Division II, with eight in the Great Lakes Valley Conference and five in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.