Here’s the roster of men and women’s professional sports teams and selected college teams in Seattle-Tacoma metro area. We include major and minor league baseball teams, football and soccer, as well as rugby, basketball, hockey, and roller derby. In addition, we include a few junior professional and collegiate teams, which along with minor league games can offer more affordable options for watching sports teams play.
For each sports team, we list the regular season, the stadium or arena where they play, and other interesting facts. Click the link for each team’s website for additional information such as the current season schedule, standings, and ticket prices, or to purchase single game or season tickets. If you want to catch local teams on the big screen, check our list of 50 best value sports bars in the Seattle-Tacoma metro area (greaterseattleonthecheap.com).
Professional Baseball Teams
Major league baseball (MLB): Seattle Mariners
- Spring training: Feb-Mar at Arizona Peoria Sports Complex
- Regular Season: Mar/April to Sept/Oct
- Stadium: T-Mobile Park (formerly Safeco Field), Seattle
- Year founded: 1977
- Factoid: The Mariners ballpark’s one-of-a-kind retractable roof covers nearly 9 acres, weighs 22 million pounds, and can open or close in about 15 minutes.
AAA Minor league baseball: Tacoma Rainiers
- Regular Season: April to October
- Stadium: Cheney Stadium, Tacoma
- Year founded 1960
- Factoid: The Tacoma team has operated under numerous names, including Tigers (twice), Giants, Cubs, Twins, Yankees, Tugs, and Rainiers.
Class A Minor league baseball: Everett AquaSox
- Regular Season: June to September
- Stadium: Funko Field at Everett Memorial Stadium, 3900 Broadway, Everett, WA 98201
- Year founded: 1984 as a San Francisco Giants affiliate, 1995 as Mariners High-A affiliate
- Factoid: On June 17, 1987, Ken Griffey, Jr. hit his first professional home run over the left field wall, which landed in the street approximately 387 feet from home plate. A plaque on the sidewalk marks the site just outside the left field wall at Everett Memorial Stadium.
Professional Football Teams
National Football League (NFL): Seattle Seahawks
- Regular Season: September to January
- Stadium: Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink), Seattle
- Year founded 1976
- Factoid: Won Super Bowl XLVIII 43-8 against Denver Broncos for the 2013 season.
Women’s Legends Football League: Seattle Thunder (formerly Seattle Mist)
- Regular Season: September to January
- Stadium: ShoWare Center, Kent
- Year founded 2009. Due to the pandemic, seasons 2020 and 2021 were cancelled. LFL is expected to return summer 2022.
- Factoid: LFL was founded in 2009 as the Lingerie Football League and re-branded in 2013 as the Legends Football League.
- More info: Legends Football League (LFL) | (lflus.com) and (1) Legends Football League | Facebook
XFL League (extreme football): Seattle Dragons
- Regular season: February-May.
- Stadium: TBA
- Year founded 2019 but sidelined by the pandemic.
- Factoid: Seattle is one of 8 XFL franchises.
Professional Soccer Teams
Major League Soccer (MLS) Seattle Sounders FC
- Regular Season: February/March to November.
- Stadium: Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink), Seattle
- Year founded 2007, first played 2009
- Factoid: In 1976, the Sounders, played the first sporting event held in the Kingdome (demolished in 2000) lost 1-3 the New York Cosmos, whose teammate Pelé scored the first point of the game and therefore the first point in the stadium.
National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL): Seattle Reign FC
OL Reign unveiled its official name and brand transformation in time for the 2024 season, returning to the roots of the club’s original name, Seattle Reign FC.
- Regular Season: March to September
- Stadium: Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink), Seattle
- Year founded: 2012
- Factoid: One of the eight inaugural members of the NWSL, Reign played at Tukwila’s Starfire Sports Complex in 2013 and Seattle’s Memorial Stadium from 2014–18. Winners of the 2014 and 2015 NWSL Shield.
Professional Rugby Team
Major League Rugby (MLR): Seattle Seawolves
- Regular Season: April to July
- Stadium: Starfire Sports Complex, Tukwila
- Year founded: 2017
- Factoid: A founding member of MLR and first professional rugby team ever in the Northwest.
Professional Basketball Team
Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA): Seattle Storm
- Regular Season: May to September
- Arena: Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center (formerly Key Area), renovated 2018-2021
- Year founded 2000.
- Factoid: In the 2010 season, Seattle Storm ended the season with a record-tying 28 wins and 6 losses and the most home wins in the history of the WNBA. To date, Seattle Storm are 4X WNBA champions (2004, 2010, 2018, 2020).
National Basketball Association (NBA) TBA
- Much beloved Seattle SuperSonics 1967- 2008, was sold and subsequently moved to Oklahoma.
- Factoid: The return of an NBA team is anticipated after renovation of Key Arena (renamed Climate Pledge Arena), which requires either an expansion team or relocation of an existing team.
- Latest news: https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/nba-could-expand-32-teams-seattle-almost-given
Professional Hockey Teams
National Hockey League (NHL): Seattle Kraken
- Regular season: October-April.
- Year founded: 2018, inaugural NHL season 2021-2022
- Arena: Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center (formerly Key Area), renovated 2018-2021
- Factoid: Seattle’s first professional sports championship was in 1917 when the Seattle Metropolitans hockey team became the first American team to win the Stanley Cup by beating the Montréal Canadiens three games to one.
Junior Western Hockey Conference League (WHL): Seattle Thunderbirds
- Regular Season: September to March
- Stadium: ShoWare Center, Kent
- Year founded: 1977.
- Factoid: Thunderbirds continually draw some of the highest attendance numbers in the WHL.
Junior Western Hockey Conference League (WHL): Everett Silvertips
- Regular Season: September to March
- Stadium: Angel of the Winds Arena (formerly Xfinity Arena), Everett
- Year founded 2004
- Factoid: In their inaugural season the team broke ten junior hockey records, staking its reputation as one of the most successful expansion hockey teams in history.
Flat-Track Roller Derby
This is the real deal. You may be familiar with roller derby on a banked track. In the early 2000s, the sport was reborn on a flat track. While the banked version of roller derby was a staged theatrical production, flat track is a legitimate sport played by serious athletes. Hundreds of leagues exist around the world.
Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA): Rat City Rollergirls (RCRG) (Shoreline)
- Regular Season: January to April
- Arena: Rat’s Nest in Shoreline
- Year founded 2004
- Factoid: Rat City is the nickname for the south Seattle neighborhood of White Center, where the Rollergirls started playing at the Southgate Roller Rink.
Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA): Jet City Roller Derby (JCRD) (Everett)
- Regular Season: September-May
- Arena: Seaview Gym at Edmonds Community College
- Year founded: 2006
- Factoid: Snohomish County’s only all-female, flat track roller derby league composed of multiple teams.
Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA): Oly Rollers | Facebook (Olympia)
- Regular Season: Quarterly matches
- Arena: Skateland Olympia
- Year founded: 2006
- Factoid: The Oly Rollers is a skater owned and operated non-profit corporation, comprised of several teams of skaters aged 14-50.
Select list of College Teams in Seattle
University of Washington Football: Go Huskies
- Year founded: 1893.
- Stadium: Husky Stadium
- Regular season: August-December
- Factoids: The spectator “Wave”, practiced in sports stadiums nationwide, was conceived at the UW in 1981. Robb Weller, ’72, a former UW yell leader, and Bill Bissell, the Husky Marching Band director, came up with the idea.
University of Washington Basketball: Go Huskies
- Year founded: 1893.
- Stadium: Hec Edmundson Pavilion
- Regular season: November-March
- Factoid: The university has 23 men’s and women’s collegiate athletic programs, including basketball, cross country, rowing, and soccer.
University of Washington Baseball: Go Huskies
- Year founded: 1893.
- Stadium: Husky Ballpark
- Regular season: February-May
- Factoid: Husky Ballpark in 2014 with 2,200 seats in one of the most unique and memorable settings for collegiate baseball in America. Admission is free for students at all home baseball games.
Seattle University Redhawks: SU Sports
- Year founded: 1946
- Stadium: Connelly Complex
- Regular season: November-March
- Factoid: The SU Redhawks has six NCAA appearances from 2013-17 and two College Basketball Invitationals.
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