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sports league

group of sports teams or individual athletes that compete against each other
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sports league

Summary

sports league ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,531 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • sports league is a type of sports organization[2].
  • sports league is a type of recurring sporting event[3].
  • sports league's Commons category is recorded as Sports leagues[4].
  • sports league's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sports leagues[5].
  • sports league's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox sports league[6].
  • sports league's main Wikidata property is recorded as P118[7].
  • sports league's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3983[8].
  • sports league's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2499[9].
  • sports league's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2500[10].
  • sports league's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3195[11].
  • sports league's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3822[12].
  • sports league's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/SportsLeague[13].
  • sports league's equivalent class is recorded as https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=SportsLeague[14].
  • sports league's different from is recorded as sports season[15].
  • sports league's properties for this type is recorded as P2881[16].
  • sports league's properties for this type is recorded as P2499[17].
  • sports league's properties for this type is recorded as P2500[18].
  • sports league's has part is recorded as sports season[19].
  • sports league's exact match is recorded as http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/spct/league[20].
  • sports league's category for eponymous categories is recorded as Category:Wikipedia categories named after sports leagues[21].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include sports organization[2] and recurring sporting event[3].

Why It Matters

sports league ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,531 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sports-league_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{sports league}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sports-league}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-07}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/SportsLeague, https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=SportsLeague"
  2. 11w ago · Jlwoodwa · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for eponymous categories → Category:Wikipedia categories named after sports leagues
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6186]]: [[Q8923224]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) of the class → sports season
    Subclass of → sports organization, recurring sporting event
    Topic's main category → Category:Sports leagues
    Properties for this type → P2881, P2499, P2500
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 25445, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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