Saturday, 13 July 2013

Sports

See also: Sports in the San Francisco Bay Area Club Sport Founded League Venue San Jose Sharks Hockey 1991 National Hockey League: Western Conference SAP Center at San Jose San Jose Earthquakes Soccer 1995 Major League Soccer: Western Conference Buck Shaw Stadium San Jose Giants Baseball 1988 California League San Jose Municipal Stadium San Jose SaberCats Arena football 1995 Arena Football League (West Division) SAP Center at San Jose Real San Jose Soccer 2007 National Premier Soccer League Yerba Buena High School San Jose Sharks versus the Vancouver Canucks in the HP Pavilion, prior to the new scoreboard installation

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SAP Center at San Jose Inside view of HP Pavilion at San Jose prior to the new scoreboard installation.

San Jose was able to have at least one major sports league franchise, the San Jose Sharks of the NHL, and will be home to the San Jose Earthquakes of MLS in 2014, but the city tried to obtain a NBA basketball and Major League Baseball team before. The UFL of American football held the San Jose/California Redwoods team in 2009–10, but has relocated to Sacramento to become the Sacramento Mountain Lions the following year. San Jose was a founding member of both the California League and Pacific Coast Leagues, in minor league baseball, but currently the San Jose Giants of the class-A Cal League under the affiliation of the San Francisco Giants could move to the triple-A level PCL. The independent North American League formerly the Golden Baseball League held an interest in the Santa Clara Valley, most notably to have a team in Santa Clara where the city tried to catch the Giants and Oakland A's, and the NFL San Francisco 49ers in a rejected major league sports stadium proposal.

In 2004, the San Jose Sports Authority hosted the U.S. Olympic team trials for judo, taekwondo, trampolining and rhythmic gymnastics at the San Jose State Event Center. In August 2004, the San Jose Seahawk Rugby Football Club hosted the USA All-Star 7-Aside Rugby Championships at Watson Bowl, east of Downtown. San Jose is also home to the St Joseph's Hurling Club. In 2008, around 90 percent of the members of the United States Olympic team were processed at San Jose State University prior to traveling to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The 2009 Junior Olympics for trampoline also were held here. In April 2009, it was announced San Jose State will host the 2011 American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) national tournament.

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