Sports in Montreal

Although university football has long been popular with Anglo Montrealers, who support the McGill Redbirds and Concordia Stingers, enthusiastic Francophone crowds also enjoy the Université de Montréal's Carabins.

Montreal's off-island suburb of Boisbriand is home to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Blainville-Boisbriand Armada.

Also at the Centre Sportif Bois-de-Boulogne plays the Laval Comets of the W-League, the second tier of women's soccer in the United States and Canada.

AFL Quebec prides itself on been one of the fastest growing and best runs leagues in Canada and North America.

AFL Quebec plays the vast majority of its regular and final series games at Vanier College.

The city also currently has two world champions in Jean Pascal and Lucian Bute as well as a number of top contenders such as Herman Ngoudjo, Joachim Alcine, Adrian Diaconu and Sebastian Demers.

On July 13, 1982, Montreal hosted the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game outside the United States.

[3][4] A two-game MLB exhibition pre-season series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Mets were played on March 28–29, 2014 at Olympic Stadium in front of sold-out crowds.

(On March 23 and 24, 2020 the Blue Jays were scheduled to host the New York Yankees at Olympic Stadium but the two-game series were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)

All six of the two-game series were played in an attempt to gauge the city's interest in a revived Expos franchise.

Previously the Montreal Jazz played a single season in the National Basketball League of Canada.

On October 22, 2010, the Bell Centre hosted the first pre-season National Basketball Association (NBA) game between the Toronto Raptors and the New York Knicks.

[10] The league hosts the annual "Beast of the East" tournament for intraleague (club) roller derby teams from eastern Canada.

The rugby teams are divided by their language and their division, but over all it is a big family trying to expand a sport misunderstood and unknown by many.

Traditionally associated with the Anglo community, rugby has seen a sharp rise in Francophone participation in recent decades.

Quebec Caribou, drawing many players from Montreal clubs, represented the province in the Rugby Canada Super League before the league's demise following the 2008 season, and now represents the province in the Rugby Canada National Junior Championship.

[12] Bike rentals are available at the Old Port of Montreal, as well as quadricycles, inline skates, children trailers, and Segways.

[16] Montreal is host to the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix, which takes place at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Île Notre-Dame.

The Montreal Championship, an event on PGA Tour Champions for golfers 50 and older, was launched in 2010 and is hosted by Club de Golf Fontainebleu in the suburb of Blainville.

The Canada Masters, currently sponsored as the Rogers Cup, is an annual tennis tournament held in Montreal and Toronto.

In cycling, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal has been held on city streets since 2010, using the steep slopes of Mount Royal.

The circuit is similar to that at the 1976 Summer Olympics, the Grand Prix des Amériques and the 1974 UCI Road World Championships.