How many professional basketball teams are there in Puerto Rico?
Sports in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico currently has a professional league called the Puerto Rico Soccer League which was founded in 2008 and is composed of 8 teams. It also had the Puerto Rico Islanders, which played in the North American Soccer League, the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. The team has been defunct since 2012; however, in June 2015 a new NASL team, Puerto Rico FC, was announced.
In 2017, Puerto Rico Sol became the first women’s pro soccer club in the Caribbean.
Federación de Béisbol Aficionado de Puerto Rico
As of the 2014 baseball season, it had 48 teams, grouped into two leagues (Atlantic League and Caribbean League), with 4 divisions of 6 teams in each league. The 2013 season saw the relocation of 4 teams and a divisional realignment due to geographical relocation; Villalba went to Ceiba and became the Marlins, Carolina went to Luquillo and became the Turistas, the original Cataño franchise moved to Corozal and became the Plataneros, and Toa Baja moved to Cataño and became the new Lancheros. However, six teams were eliminated after the 2014 season: Toa Alta, Moca, Luquillo, Ceiba, Gurabo and Orocovis.The regular season consists of 20 games, in which every team faces their divisional opponent 4 times during the season (2 games at home, 2 games on the road), and at season's end, the top 4 teams in the division qualifies for the postseason.