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Canada vs US: where the titles actually went

Championships won by Canadian franchises versus the league-wide total, per league, since each league's first Canadian entry — computed by dividing a sourced Canadian-franchise championship count by a sourced league-wide champion-year count over the same window. The league-wide totals account for genuine no-champion years (the 1919 Stanley Cup Final, cancelled by the influenza pandemic; the 2004-05 NHL season, cancelled by the lockout; the 1994 World Series, cancelled by the players' strike) rather than treating every calendar year as a champion-year. The CFL is excluded as not applicable: it has no US franchises to compare against. Two MLS windows are shown — since Toronto FC's first MLS season (2007) and since MLS's own founding (1996) — because 'Canadian share of MLS titles' reads differently depending which start point you pick, and we'd rather show both than imply a single framing is the only honest one.

Last verified: · Source: Verdikt editorial computation from sourced championship lists (Wikipedia: List of Stanley Cup champions, List of World Series champions, List of NBA champions, List of MLS Cup finals) cross-checked for no-champion years (retrieved )

League Window Canadian-franchise titles League-wide champion-years Canadian share (computed) Notes
NHL1918–2025 (NHL era; excludes the pre-NHL 1916 Canadiens title)4210639.6%106 = 108 calendar years minus the 1919 Final (cancelled, influenza) and the 2004-05 season (cancelled, lockout). The 42 Canadian titles span 4 of the 7 current Canadian franchises (Leafs 13, Canadiens 23 within this window, Oilers 5, Flames 1); Canucks, Jets and Senators have 0.
MLB1977–2025 (since the Blue Jays' 1977 expansion)2484.2%48 = 49 calendar years minus the 1994 World Series (cancelled outright by the players' strike). All 2 Canadian titles are the Blue Jays' back-to-back 1992-1993 wins — Canada's only MLB franchise.
NBA1995–2025 (since the Raptors' 1995 expansion)1313.2%No missing champion-years in this window (lockout-shortened 1999 and 2012 seasons, and the 2020 bubble, all still produced a champion). The Raptors' 2019 title is Canada's only NBA championship.
MLS2007–2025 (since Toronto FC's first MLS season)1195.3%Toronto FC's 2017 MLS Cup (part of a domestic treble) is the only Canadian MLS Cup in this window. Vancouver Whitecaps FC and CF Montréal, Canada's other two MLS clubs, have 0.
MLS1996–2025 (full MLS history, alternate window)1303.3%Same single Canadian title (Toronto FC, 2017) measured against MLS's full 30-year history rather than just the post-2007 window when a Canadian club existed.
CFLNot applicableThe CFL has no US-based franchises (aside from a brief, now-defunct 1990s American-expansion era) — there is no meaningful 'Canada vs US' split to compute for this league.