List of sports teams named for the phoenix
Phoenix is a common name for sports teams, arising either directly from the mythological phoenix, or from places named for that creature. Teams including this name, or referred to by it, include:
Teams based in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, or the Phoenix metropolitan area[edit]
- Arizona Cardinals, a football team (NFL), known as the Phoenix Cardinals from 1988 to 1993
- Arizona Coyotes, a hockey team (NHL), known as the Phoenix Coyotes from 1996 to 2014
- Arizona Diamondbacks, a baseball team (MLB); the only major Phoenix-based team that has never borne the city's name
- Phoenix Mercury, a women's basketball team (WNBA)
- Phoenix Rising FC, a soccer team (USLC), known as the Arizona United SC from 2014 to 2016
- Phoenix Suns, a men's basketball team (NBA)
Other teams[edit]
- A.F.C. Phoenix, a football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
- Feniks-Illichovets Kalinine, a defunct association football club in Ukraine
- Altona East Phoenix SC, an Australian soccer club based in the western suburbs of Melbourne
- Brisbane Phoenix FC, an Australian soccer club
- Centro Atlético Fénix, a Uruguayan sports club from Montevideo
- Club Atlético Fénix, an Argentine football club from Pilar, Buenos Aires Province
- Elon Phoenix, the athletic teams of Elon University in the United States
- Gibraltar Phoenix F.C., a defunct football club from Gibraltar
- GPS Portland Phoenix, a defunct American soccer team based in Portland, Maine
- Green Bay Phoenix, the athletic teams of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in the United States
- Jõhvi FC Phoenix, an Estonian football club
- Leicester Phoenix, a rugby league football club in England
- Manchester Phoenix, an ice hockey team in England
- Melbourne Phoenix, a netball team in Australia
- South East Melbourne Phoenix, a basketball team in Australia
- Penmaenmawr Phoenix F.C., a Welsh football team
- Phoenix Baia Mare, a football club in Romania
- FC Phoenix Banjë, a professional football club from Kosovo
- Phoenix Cricket Club, in Ireland
- Phoenix Hagen, a basketball club in Germany
- Phoenix Sports F.C., an English football club located in Barnehurst, Kent
- Phoenix Ulmu, a Romanian football club based in Ulmu, Călărași County
- FC Phönix Bellheim, a German association football club
- 1. FC Phönix Lübeck, a German association football club
- South West Phoenix FC, an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Bunbury, Western Australia
- Tamworth Phoenix, an American Football club in England
- Tawe Phoenix Boat Club, the alumni club of Swansea University Rowing Club in the United Kingdom
- Team Phoenix F.C., a Burmese football club
- Twin Cities Phoenix, a defunct American soccer team
- Wellington Phoenix FC, a football club in New Zealand, which came about after a previous New Zealand team in the A-League competition folded, making them also an example of a Phoenix Club.
- Worplesdon Phoenix F.C., an English football club based in Worplesdon, Surrey
- Yorkshire Phoenix, a cricket club in England
Motorsports[edit]
- Phoenix Racing, a NASCAR team
- Phoenix Racing (Germany), a touring car and GT racing team