This is a list of professional sports leagues.
A sports league is a professional body that governs the competition of its teams. They make the rules for competition and behavior and disciplines its members as necessary. This is done through a structure that varies by league. Some are made up of a board of governors that have a commissioner or president, while others are single entity organizations where the league owns the franchises and therefore does not have a board of governors.
This list attempts to show those sports leagues for which all players and teams are paid to play. In other words, these players can be considered to play their chosen sport as their profession. Some leagues do not pay well enough to allow players to use them as their primary or only source of income, but because the players are paid, it is still considered professional, or semi-professional. As such, some leagues listed here may not be fully professional.
See also: List of organized baseball leagues, Professional baseball and Baseball awards.
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Top Rank Boxing Golden Boy Promotions Don King Promotions DiBella Entertainment
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Matchroom Boxing Premier Boxing Champions
No Limit Boxing Queensberry Promotions D&L Events (formerly Duco Events) BoxxerMajor sanctioning bodies
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See main article: article, Geography of association football, Geography of women's association football and Professionalism in association football.
See also: List of association football competitions.
See also: List of American and Canadian football leagues. Includes American and Canadian Football and their variants.
See also: List of rugby league competitions.
See also: British rugby league system and French rugby league system.
National Rugby League Canterbury Cup NSW 
Queensland Cup NSW Challenge Cup Ron Massey Cup (semi-professional) Group 7 Rugby League (semi-professional) NZ National Competition Papua New Guinea National Rugby League (semi-professional) NRL Women's Premiership QRL Women's PremiershipSee also: List of rugby union competitions.
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Africa
Kenya Cup (semi-professional)Americas
Asia-Pacific
Super Rugby Pacific NPCEurope
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Russian Rugby Championship
CEC Bank SuperLiga 
Top12 (semi-professional)
Extraliga ragby (semi-professional)
Ekstraliga (rugby) (semi-professional)
División de Honor de Rugby (semi-professional)
Didi 10 (semi-professional) 
Rugby Europe Super Cup (semi-professional) European Rugby Champions Cup European Rugby Challenge CupPro clubs in an amateur league
Feldhockey Bundesliga (Men's field hockey)
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Japan: Rizin FF (Premier Japanese Organization) Japan: Shooto (Second Tier Japanese Organization) Japan: Pancrase (Second Tier Japanese Organization) Japan: DEEP (Minor Japanese Organization) Japan: ZST (Minor Japanese Organization) Japan: RisingOn (Minor Japanese Organization) Japan: GLEAT (Minor Japanese Organization) Russia: Absolute Championship Akhmat (Premier Russian-based Organization) Russia: Fight Nights Global (Premier Russian-based Organization) Russia: M-1 Global (Second Tier Russian-based Organization)
Mexico: LUX Fight League (Premier Mexican Organization) Mexico: Ultimate Warrior Challenge Mexico (Premier Mexican Organization) Mexico: Budo Sento Championship (Second Tier Mexican Organization)
Brazil: Jungle Fight (Premier Brazilian Organization) Brazil: Shooto Brasil (Second Tier Brazilian Organization)
South Korea: ROAD Fighting Championship[19] (Premier Korean Organization) South Korea: TOP Fighting Championship[20] (Second Tier Korean Organization) Canada: Maximum Fighting Championship (Premier Canadian Organization)
Hong Kong: Legend Fighting Championship (Premier Hong Konger Organization)
India: Super Fight League[21]See also: List of professional wrestling promotions.
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Divizia A1 (men's volleyball) Divizia A1 (women's volleyball)See main article: Geography of water polo.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Water Polo League
Maltese Water Polo Premier League
Montenegrin First League of Water Polo Polish Championship in Water polo Romanian Superliga (water polo) Russian Water Polo Championship Russian Women's Water Polo Championship
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