Teams
| Club | League | Venue | Established |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton Dragons | MWL, Baseball | Fifth Third Field | 1998 |
| Dayton Gems | CHL, Ice hockey | Hara Arena | 2009 |
| Dayton Dutch Lions | USL, Soccer | Miami Valley South Stadium | 2009 |
| Dayton Flyers | NCAA Division I Baseball, Basketball, Cross country, Football, Golf, Soccer, Rowing, softball, Tennis, Track and field, and Volleyball | University of Dayton Arena (Basketball), Welcome Stadium (Football), Thomas J. Frericks Center (Volleyball), Time Warner Cable Stadium (Baseball) | 1995 |
| Wright State Raiders | NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Basketball, Baseball, Softball, & Men's and Women's Soccer | Ervin J. Nutter Center (Basketball), Nischwitz Field (Baseball), Alumni Field (Soccer) | 1968 |
- Baseball
- The Dayton Dragons is Dayton's only professional baseball team and is the minor league affiliate for the Cincinnati Reds. The Dayton Dragons are the first (and only) team in minor league baseball history to sell out an entire season before it began and was voted as one of the top ten hottest tickets to get in all of professional sports by Sports Illustrated.
- Collegiate
- The University of Dayton and Wright State University both host NCAA basketball. The University of Dayton Arena hosted 82 games in the NCAA men's basketball tournament over its history, the second most prolific venue in NCAA history and the most prolific among active venues, with the most recent being first and second round games of the 2009 tournament. Wright State University's NCAA men's basketball is the Wright State Raiders and the University of Dayton's NCAA men's basketball team is the Dayton Flyers.
- Hockey
- The Dayton Bombers were an ECHL ice hockey team that most recently played the North Division of the ECHL's American Conference. In June 2009, it was announced that the Bombers would turn in their membership back to the league. The move means the end of the second-longest tenured team in the ECHL after 18 seasons. However, hockey will remain in Dayton as the Dayton Gems of the International Hockey League began play in the fall of 2009 at Hara Arena.
- Football
- Football teams in the Dayton area are the Dayton Flyers Football and the Dayton Diamonds women's football. Dayton hosted the first American Professional Football Association game (precursor to the NFL). The game was played at Triangle Park between the Dayton Triangles and the Columbus Panhandles on October 3, 1920.
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