Boston’s Surprising Rise: The Untold Story Behind America’s Top Sports City in 2025
Because we’re looking at the calendar year of 2025, this counts parts of two seasons for every sport but MLB and only counts games that took place from Jan. 1 to Dec. 21, 2025. And, unlike last year, the first-place battle came down to the wire.
1. Boston (Combined Winning Percentage: .630)
Entering this weekend, Boston was in second in these rankings.
But a win by the Patriots and a loss by the runner-up’s NFL team vaulted Boston into the prized top spot as the best metro area of 2025.
It’s fitting the Patriots caused the move, as they’ve been the best team in Boston this year with an .813 winning percentage. They are tied for the best winning percentage of any team in the 12 ranked metro areas (NFL teams tend to have more polarized winning percentages with so many fewer games).



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