Sports Entertainment

The birthplace of the Detroit Pistons, Fort Wayne was named America’s number one minor-league sports city in 2007 by Street & Smith’s Sports Business.

Fort Wayne Fever Soccer League
(260) 432-8783 ext 307
The team is a member of the United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Great Lakes Division of the Central Conference.

Fort Wayne Komets Hockey Club
(260) 483-1111
Fort Wayne’s longest continuous sports franchise. In all of North American professional hockey, only the Original Six teams of the NHL and the Hershey Bears of the AHL have played continuously in the same city with the same name longer than the Komets.

Fort Wayne Freedom (Indoor Football)
(260) 969-7520
The city’s newest professional sports franchise begins its inaugural season in March 2003 at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.

Fort Wayne Mad Ants
 (260) 469-HOOPS
The Mad Ants are a D-League professional basketball team affiliated with the Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers and the Milwaukee Bucks.

Fort Wayne TinCaps Baseball
(260) 482-6400
This professional baseball team is the Class-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres in the Midwest Baseball League.

IPFW
Hilliard Gates Sports Center
(260) 481-6643
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
IPFW Athletics is home to 16 Division I sports. The Mastodons host more than 100 Division I athletic contests each against teams such as Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Butler, North Carolina, Oregon State, Ohio State and Penn State.

University of St. Francis
(800)729-4732
2701 Spring St.
Fort Wayne, IN 46808
The St. Francis Cougars are members of the NAIA. The university offers a variety of men's and women's sports, including football, baseball, volleyball, softball and basketball.