An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of...

undergone several rounds of expansion and other organizational changes during its history to reach its current thirty-two active teams: twenty-five in the United...

Association has undergone several rounds of expansion in the league's history, since it began play in 1946, to reach 30 teams. The most recent examples are the...

proposal by Seattle Hockey Partners to grant an expansion franchise to the city of Seattle, and the team began play during the league's 2021–22 season....

the Western Conference, and began play as an expansion team during the league's 2024–25 season. The team plays its home games at the Delta Center, an...

has undergone several rounds of expansion beginning in 1961, eventually reaching 30 teams with its most recent expansion taking place in 1998. MLB has discussed...

Expansion, expansion, or expand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Expansion may refer to: L'Expansion, a French monthly business magazine Expansion...

Pacific Division in the Western Conference. Founded in 2017 as an expansion team, the team is the first major sports franchise to represent Las Vegas. The...

An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansion teams or franchises. This occurs mainly...

Expansion Team is the second studio album by American hip hop trio Dilated Peoples. It was released on October 23, 2001, through Capitol Records. The recording...

the 29th MLS team and the most recent expansion team, having joined the league for the 2023 season. The league plans to expand to 30 teams in 2025 with...

Many Team Expansion workers are associated with the Restoration Movement of churches, but as an agency, Team Expansion is non-denominational. Team Expansion...

Texas to become the expansion Houston Dynamo, after failing to build a stadium in San Jose. The Dynamo became an expansion team, leaving their history...

The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. It is an intrinsic...

League (NHL) expansion added six new franchises for the 1967–68 season, doubling the size of the league to 12 teams. It was the largest expansion undertaken...

established on November 13, 2007, and began play in 2009 as an MLS expansion team. The Sounders are a phoenix club, replacing the second-division franchise...

league to launch with 14–18 teams across four specific geographic areas in 2011, expansion to 22–26 teams by 2013, and 28–32 teams by 2015. Following USL Pro's...

Lacob and Peter Guber, were finalizing an agreement to start a WNBA expansion team in San Francisco. Lacob had previously helped found the American Basketball...

Hockey League (NHL) on July 21, 2021, to fill the roster of the league's expansion team for the 2021–22 season, the Seattle Kraken. On December 4, 2017, the...

area. On January 29, 2018, MLS officially approved David Beckham's expansion team in Miami. The club garnered international attention prior to their founding...

additional "expansion teams in emerging markets" would be among the teams to play the 2025 season. Of those teams, the Arizona Bandits, a team that had previously...

of the Western Conference; it is joining the league as an expansion team in 2025. The team will play its home matches at Snapdragon Stadium, a multi-use...

league. The team was founded as the Washington Senators in 1961, an expansion team awarded to Washington, D.C., after its previous team became the Minnesota...

league's first expansion team since the Atlanta Dream in 2008. There will be an expansion draft in December 2024. It was reported that the expansion fee for...

transferred to a new expansion team in Utah. Under the original agreement, Coyotes owner Alex Meruelo retained the rights to the team name and history, as...

have been the most successful expansion teams in the major leagues: the Mets and Royals were the first expansion teams in their respective leagues to...

expansion draft was an expansion draft conducted by the National Hockey League on June 18–20, 2017 to fill the roster of the league's expansion team for...

The expansion of the National Women's Soccer League began with the league's sophomore season in 2014, when the league expanded to a ninth team in Houston...

Conference (NFC) South division. They joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team, along with the Seattle Seahawks, and played its first season in the...

Founded in 2014, Atlanta United began play as an MLS expansion team in 2017, as the twenty-second team in the league. It is the first MLS franchise to be...