The Metro Alliance was a Minnesota State High School League-sanctioned athletics conference that existed from 1997 to 2005.

[1] Columbia Heights High School and Fridley High School, the other two founding members of the conference, left the North Suburban Conference to join.

[2] Farmington High School declined an invitation to be an eighth founding member;[3] however, Benilde-St. Margaret's ultimately joined the conference as final school.

Mahtomedi left the Metro Alliance to join the new Classic Suburban Conference at the end of the 2000-01 school year.

[6] St. Anthony and Brooklyn Center returned to the Tri-Metro after being placed by the Minnesota State High School League.