List of fictional sports teams

This is a list of fictional sports teams, athletic groups that have been identified by name in works of fiction but do not really exist as such. Teams have been organized by the sport they participate in, followed by the media product they appear in. Specific television episodes are noted when available.

Baseball teams

A League of Their Own

BASEketball teams

BASEketball is a mix of baseball and basketball played in the 1998 movie of the same name.

Batman

Beanball: Murder at the World Series by Tom Seaver

Benchwarmers

Blernsball teams

Blernsball is the version of baseball in the year 3000 in the show Futurama

Blockade Billy by Stephen King

Grand Theft Auto (series)

Philip Roth's The Great American Novel

Hardball (1994 TV series)

Looney Tunes

Noonan: A Novel About Baseball, Esp, and Time Warps by Leonard Everett Fisher

The Seventh Game by Roger Kahn

The Simpsons

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Superman (comic book)

Total Recall

Universal Baseball Association

Basketball teams

. seattle rainmakers

American Basketball Association

Batman

Grand Theft Auto (series)

One Tree Hill (TV series)

The Simpsons

Space Jam

Semi-Pro

Aeroball teams

Aeroball is a futuristic version of basketball played with jetpacks in the 2000 AD strip Harlem Heroes.

Batman

Grand Theft Auto (series)

One Tree Hill (TV series)

The Simpsons

Space Jam

Semi-Pro

Aeroball teams

Aeroball is a futuristic version of basketball played with jetpacks in the 2000 AD strip Harlem Heroes.

Cheerleading Squads

A Cinderella Story

Bring It On

Bring It On Again

Bring It On: All or Nothing

Bring It On: In It to Win It

Bring It On: Fight to the Finish

Fired Up!

High School Musical

John Tucker Must Die

Not Another Teen Movie

The Hot Chick

The New Guy

Croquet teams

All from the Thursday Next novels, in which croquet has been reinvented as a fast-paced contact sport.

Dodgeball teams

All featured in the film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

American football teams

All-Pro Football 2K8

Any Given Sunday

Backbreaker

Batman

The Best of Times (film)

Blitz: The League II

Coach (TV series)

Earth: Final Conflict

Eyeshield 21

1st & Ten (TV series)

Grand Theft Auto (series)

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

The Last Boy Scout

Monk

Necessary Roughness

The PJs

Smallville (TV series)

The Simpsons

Spider-Man

South Park

Superman

The Waterboy

Deathball teams

Association football teams

Grand Theft Auto (series)

ID

Renford Rejects

Rudo y Cursi

Shaolin Soccer

A Touch of Frost (TV series)

Ice hockey teams

Bon Cop, Bad Cop

(all in the CHL)

Bones

Goon (film)

Grand Theft Auto (series)

H.E. Double Hockey Sticks

Lance et compte

The Simpsons

Slap Shot (film)

South Park

(Pee-Wee Hockey Teams)

What's with Andy?

Youngblood (1986 film)

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Jump-rope (Double Dutch) Teams

Jump In

Motocross Teams

Motocrossed

Quidditch, a game in the Harry Potter books

Rugby teams

The Art of Coarse Rugby by Michael Green

Lacrosse Teams

Wild Child

Baccer Teams (fictional Pokémon sport)

Unspecified Sports

Grand Theft Auto (series)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ There is a real NBA team with that name.
  2. ↑ Supposedly based on the Toronto Blue Jays.
  3. ↑ Supposedly based on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
  4. ↑ There was an actual minor league team in the Pacific Coast League called the Hollywood Stars that played from 1926–1957 at Gilmore Field.
  5. ↑ There is a real minor league baseball team the Myrtle Beach Pelicans that the "Myrtle Beach Mermen". are based on.
  6. ↑ There is a real NBA team with that name.
  7. 1 2 Supposedly based on the New York Yankees.
  8. ↑ Supposedly based on the New York Giants baseball team, but according to author Bernard Malamud, they were based on the New York Yankees.
  9. ↑ Supposedly based on the New York Yankees, however their home games were filmed at the Mets' home of Shea Stadium and they played against various National League teams.
  10. ↑ Supposedly based on the Brooklyn Dodgers.
  11. ↑ During the episode Lee's Bad, Bad Day, the Pioneer legends wore a uniform with New Jersey printed on the front.
  12. ↑ Bart Simpson's Little League team are the Springfield Isotots, and the Albuquerque Isotopes, a real minor-league team, were named after this team.
  13. ↑ The Pittsburgh Ironmen were a real team in the early days of the NBA.
  14. ↑ There is a real Texas State University, but it did not assume the name until more than a decade after the movie came out; its sports teams are known as Bobcats.
  15. ↑ This was also the name of a real team in the United States Football League
  16. ↑ During the scene when Sharks' coach Tony D'Amato updates his team schedule. The San Francisco Knights appears on it. But at the final game in the film. The Sharks plays another team called Knights from Dallas. That blooper caused much controversy at the time.
  17. ↑ This would have been the name of a real USFL team had there been a 1986 season. The Arizona Wranglers and Oklahoma Outlaws planned a merger.
  18. ↑ Orlando Breakers owner Doris Sherman (Katherine Helmond) proposed a move to Los Angeles (episode Save the Wave) to increase revenue for her club.
  19. ↑ There is a real Minnesota State University, with campuses bearing that name in Mankato and Moorhead, but neither adopted the "Minnesota State" name until after the series ended. Sports teams at the real Minnesota State campuses are respectively Mavericks and Dragons.
  20. 1 2 "Companies in the Marvel Universe". Retrieved June 25, 2010.
  21. ↑ Several real schools have borne the University of Louisiana name. From 1847 to 1884, Tulane University was known as The University of Louisiana. In 1995, the modern University of Louisiana System was established, but no schools took the "University of Louisiana" name until 1999, the year after The Waterboy was released. In that year, the schools formerly known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana and Northeast Louisiana University became, respectively, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Monroe. Under the law establishing the University of Louisiana System, no school can call itself "University of Louisiana" without a city or other regional identifier. Both modern "Louisiana" schools are generally referred to as "Louisiana-Lafayette" and "Louisiana-Monroe", and their teams are respectively Ragin' Cajuns and Warhawks (the latter was known as the Indians until June 2006).
  22. ↑ "Böckerna om Håkan Bråkan" (in Swedish). Anders Jakobssons och Sören Olssons webbplats. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  23. ↑ Berts vidare betraktelser, Rabén & Sjögren, 1990
  24. ↑ Bert och brorsorna, Rabén & Sjögren, 1995
  25. ↑ A fictional team that led to the creation of a real team, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (now the Anaheim Ducks).
  26. ↑ Bert och brorsorna, Rabén & Sjögren, 1991
  27. ↑ Former CHL team, sold to Colorado before the events of the movie—an obvious parallel to the real-life Quebec Nordiques, which were sold in 1995 to a group from Denver who moved the team and renamed it the Colorado Avalanche
  28. ↑ A real minor-league hockey team in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where much of the movie was shot, is named the Johnstown Chiefs in honor of the fictional Chiefs and the city's involvement in the movie.
  29. ↑ There is a real minor-league baseball team with this name.
  30. ↑ "Uni Watch » Flood City Film Festival". uni-watch.com.
  31. ↑ A fictional team that led to the creation of a real team, now known as the Thunder Bay K&A Twins.

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