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Sporting Events in Portland, Oregon
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With tons of team and individual sports to watch year-round, the options in Portland range from major to minor to slightly mad. Game on!
Teams & Leagues
Portland Trail Blazers
A beloved local institution, the Portland Trail Blazers were the 1977 NBA champions, and have made the playoffs in 26 of their 39 seasons. And every year Portlanders come out in droves to support their team. In 1995 the Blazers set the record for most consecutive sellout home games at 814 — a mark that still stands today. The Blazers play at the Rose Garden Arena, just across the Willamette River from downtown, accessible via all MAX light rail lines and within the Free Rail Zone.
Portland Timbers
Soccer may have only just recently started to heat up in America, but the Portland Timbers have been popular in four incarnations since first forming in the 1970s. With their 2011 ascension into Major League Soccer, the local footballers not only become the city’s second major league sports team, but they also get JELD-WEN Field to themselves, creating one of the most intimate and exciting home venues in the league. JELD-WEN Field is just west of downtown, on the MAX Red and Blue lines.
Portland Winter Hawks
Since 1976, the Western Hockey League’s Winter Hawks have debuted future NHL Hall of Famers before avid Portland fans. The Winter Hawks play at the Memorial Coliseum, next door to the Rose Garden arena.
Rose City Rollers
The Rose City Rollers, Portland’s all-female flat-track roller derby league, has been all about blush and bruises ever since they first laced up their skates back in 2004. Since then, they’ve grown into one of the world’s top leagues, holding 20 regular bouts annually, most at historic Oaks Park.
