Sports inAllentown, Pennsylvania has a rich tradition at all levels, including professional sports, theOlympics, and high school levels. While mostAllentown residents support professional sports teams inNew York City orPhiladelphia, Allentown itself also is home to two major professional sports teams, theLehigh Valley IronPigs, theTriple A team of thePhiladelphia Phillies ofMajor League Baseball, and theLehigh Valley Phantoms of theAmerican Hockey League, the primary development team of thePhiladelphia Flyers.

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs play their home baseball games atCoca-Cola Park, a 10,178 capacity stadium in east Allentown. The Phantoms play their home ice hockey games atPPL Center, a 9,056 capacity indoor arena inCenter City Allentown.

BothCedar Crest College andMuhlenberg College, each in Allentown, have collegiate athletic programs in most sports. TheMuhlenberg Mules football team plays their home games atScotty Wood Stadium on the Muhlenberg campus in Allentown.

The Lehigh Valley has many public and private golf courses. Allentown is home to Allentown Municipal Golf Course and Iron Lakes Country Club. Bethlehem is home to the Bethlehem Golf Club and Green Pond Country Club. There are also several other courses located outside of the cities.Saucon Valley Country Club inUpper Saucon Township hosted the 2009U.S. Women's Open.

Parkettes National Gymnastics Training Center, which has been the training ground for numerousOlympians and U.S. national gymnastics champions, is based in Allentown. In 2003,CNN aired a documentary on Parkettes,Achieving the Perfect 10, which depicted it as a hugely demanding and competitive training program.

Allentown's three high schools,Allentown Central Catholic High School,Louis E. Dieruff High School, andWilliam Allen High School, all compete in theEastern Pennsylvania Conference, one of the most elite high school athletic divisions in the nation. The conference comprises twelve of the largest high schools in theLehigh Valley and offers 21 interscholastic boys and girls sports and has produced an abundant number of athletes who have gone on to compete in theNational Football League,Major League Baseball,National Basketball Association, andOlympics. The conference'shigh school wrestling programs have been labeled "among the nation’s best in the sport for nearly three decades."^[1]

TheLehigh Valley IronPigs, theTriple A minor league affiliate of thePhiladelphia Phillies, play their home games atCoca-Cola Park, a 10,178 capacity stadium in eastAllentown.

In the 20th century,Minor League Baseball teams affiliated with theSt. Louis Cardinals andBoston Braves (later theBoston Red Sox), played atBreadon Field inWhitehall Township near the current location of theLehigh Valley Mall; the stadium opened in 1948 and was demolished in 1964.

Allentown hosted theAllentown Jets, anEastern Professional Basketball League team, from 1958 to 1981. The Jets were one of the most dominant franchises in the league's history, winning eight playoff championships and twelve division titles. The team’s home games were played in Rockne Hall, the indoor arena ofAllentown Central Catholic High School inAllentown.

On February 12, 2009, the owners of thePhiladelphia Phantoms, theAmerican Hockey League affiliate of thePhiladelphia Flyers, announced their interest in moving the team to Allentown. At the time, it was decided that the team would play their home games at a proposed arena to be built on either theLehigh River front or adjacent to Coca-Cola Park. The team, formerly named theAdirondack Phantoms, played their home games at theGlens Falls Civic Center inGlens Falls, New York.

In March 2011, it was announced that an 8,500-seat arena was to be built in Allentown, and the team was renamed theLehigh Valley Phantoms. Additional plans for the area surrounding the arena included retail, restaurants, a convention center, and a hotel. The arena was constructed inCenter City Allentown on WestHamilton Street.^[2] and opened September 10, 2014.

Allentown is the former home of thePennsylvania Stoners, a professionalsoccer team. From 1979-1983, the Stoners were members of theAmerican Soccer League. The team had a five-year league record of 76-49-25, and won the league championship in 1980.^[3] Due to increasing competition from other soccer leagues, and decreasing attendance, the team folded in 1983.^[3] The team was resurrected in 2007 as thePennsylvania Stoners, and competes in theNational Premier Soccer League (NPSL). The team played its home games atJ. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown until 2009, when the team changed venue to Zephyr Sports Complex inWhitehall. TheEaston-basedNorthampton Laurels FC, of theWomen's Premier Soccer League, plays their home games at Allentown's at J. Birney Crum Stadium.

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