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

• 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

• 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

• Phoenix Racing, a NASCAR team
• Phoenix Racing (Germany), a touring car and GT racing team

See also

• Phoenix (disambiguation)
• Phoenix club (sports)