Louisville, Kentucky
Club Sport Began Play League Venue
Louisville Bats Baseball 2002 International League Louisville Slugger Field
Derby City Rovers Soccer 2011 Premier Development League Centurion Soccer Fields
Derby City Dynamite Women 's football 2013 Women 's Football Alliance John Hardin High School ( Radcliff )
Louisville City FC Soccer 2015 United Soccer League Lynn Family Stadium
Louisville NWSL team Women 's soccer 2021 National Women 's Soccer League Lynn Family Stadium
Culture -- Sports
See also : Historical professional sports teams in Louisville
Louisville (US: /ˈluːəvəl/ (listen) LOO-ə-vəl, /ˈluːivɪl/ (listen) LOO-ee-vil, /ˈlʊvəl/ (listen) LUUV-əl, UK: /ˈluːivɪl/) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. [d] It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being Lexington, the state's second-largest city. [e] Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With nearby Falls of the Ohio as the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states. Today, the city is known as the home of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six Fortune 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville's main commercial airport, hosts UPS's worldwide hub. Since 2003, Louisville's borders have been the same as those of Jefferson County, after a city-county merger. The official name of this consolidated city-county government is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. Despite the merger and renaming, the term Jefferson County continues to be used in some contexts in reference to Louisville Metro, particularly including the incorporated cities outside the balance which make up Louisville proper.