You go to manager mode, get some money and unlock the teams by buying them.
While the NHL is the top, the best, pro league in the world with 30 teams, there are many pro leagues throughout the world. There are at least 6 pro leagues in North America alone besides the NHL. Then you must consider that Sweden, Russia, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, ETC, have their own pro leagues. For example there are at least three levels of pro hockey in Sweden alone that I know of. I haven't counted all teams in all leagues, but I would be safe in saying that there are at least several hundred pro teams in the world, even in Australia.
In the 2002 World Series, both the Angels and the Giants made the playoffs as wild card teams.
soccer is the sports that has most pro leagues. It even has a World cup.
Every league in the world of football there is on fifa 11 except for 2
There are 2 leagues. American League and National League.
The world series
In all, there are 30 Major League teams. The New York Yankees are the best by far with 26 World Series wins.
There are about 4.5 million players registered with over 18,000 teams, leagues, and unions (junior, senior, and professional).
Soccer can be played professionally or recreationally during the summer. Professional teams play "friendlies" against other teams which don't count in their record. Recreational soccer is played in summer leagues around the world.
American Professional Baseball is made up into 2 divisions or leagues. After a season of play and a couple of weeks of playoffs the 2 leagues, the American and National send their champions to the World Series. Although called the World Series there are only American teams participating. The recent World baseball classic showed American baseball is not the only dominate team around.
733 total including the NBA and FIBA but in the NCAA there are 67 teams which would bring it to 800
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