# What is the most hated sports team in America?

> Dynasties, cheaters, big spenders and loud fan bases: every name here has given half the country a reason to root against it.

*By YPB Team · Published October 8, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-most-hated-sports-team-in-america*

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1. **New York Yankees**
   Baseball's 27-time World Series champions, resented for their payroll as much as their trophies.
2. **Dallas Cowboys**
   The self-styled America's Team, the NFL's most valuable franchise and its most polarizing.
3. **New England Patriots**
   Six Super Bowls in the Brady-Belichick era, plus Spygate and Deflategate.
4. **Houston Astros**
   2017 World Series champions later punished for an electronic sign-stealing scheme.
5. **Golden State Warriors**
   The 73-win superteam that added Kevin Durant and won four titles in eight years.
6. **Los Angeles Lakers**
   Seventeen-time NBA champions and a magnet for stars, celebrities and resentment.
7. **Boston Red Sox**
   Nine-time World Series champions whose fans became as loud as their rivals'.
8. **Pittsburgh Steelers**
   Six-time Super Bowl champions with a fan base that travels and taunts.
9. **Los Angeles Dodgers**
   Baseball's biggest spenders of the 2020s and back-to-back champions in 2024 and 2025.
10. **Kansas City Chiefs**
   The Mahomes-era dynasty that reached five Super Bowls in six seasons.
11. **Duke Blue Devils**
   College basketball's five-time national champions and its favorite villains.
12. **Boston Celtics**
   The NBA's 18-time champions and the Lakers' oldest enemy.
13. **Philadelphia Eagles**
   Two-time Super Bowl champions with famously unforgiving home fans.

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