where does the atlanta braves play?
Turner Field
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 Atlanta is home to professional franchises for three major team sports : the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball , the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association , and the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League . The Braves , who moved to Atlanta in 1966 , were established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871 and are the oldest continually operating professional sports franchise in the United States . The Braves won the World Series in 1995 , and had an unprecedented run of 14 straight divisional championships from 1991 to 2005 . 

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 The Falcons are a natural geographic rival for the Panthers , as Atlanta is only 230 miles ( 370 kilometers ) south on I @-@ 85 . The two teams have played each other twice a year since the Panthers ' inception , and games between the two teams feature large contingents of Panthers fans at Atlanta 's Georgia Dome . 

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 Atlanta has also had its own professional ice hockey and soccer franchises . The National Hockey League ( NHL ) has had two Atlanta franchises : the Atlanta Flames began play in 1972 before moving to Calgary in 1980 , while the Atlanta Thrashers began play in 1999 before moving to Winnipeg in 2011 . The Atlanta Chiefs was the city 's professional soccer team from 1967 to 1972 , and the team won a national championship in 1968 . In 1998 another professional soccer team was formed , the Atlanta Silverbacks of the North American Soccer League . In April 2014 , a Major League Soccer team , Atlanta United FC , was formed as an expansion team to begin play in 2017 . 

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 Much of the series takes place within the Atlanta metro area and surrounding countryside . Later , the setting transitions to other parts of the country including Alexandria , Virginia . 

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 The Flames were the result of the NHL 's first pre @-@ emptive strike against the upstart World Hockey Association ( WHA ) . In December 1971 , the NHL hastily granted a team to Long Island — the New York Islanders — to keep the WHA 's New York Raiders out of the brand new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum . Needing another team to balance the schedule , the NHL awarded a team to an Atlanta @-@ based group that owned the National Basketball Association 's Atlanta Hawks , headed by prominent local real estate developer Tom Cousins . Cousins named the team the " Flames " after the fire resulting from the March to the Sea in the American Civil War by General William Tecumseh Sherman , in which Atlanta was nearly destroyed . They played home games in the Omni Coliseum in downtown Atlanta . 
