Drought (sport)

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In sports, drought refers to the event in which an individual or team has been through a long period of time without achieving multiple objectives. For teams, this usually refers to a long period of time without making the playoffs or winning the championship. Drought occurs for various reasons, from chronic mismanagement to bad luck. Some droughts are also popularly associated with curses.

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North America

Drought due to sport

• In MLB, the Chicago Cubs suffer a 108-year World Series drought from 1908 to 2016, when they defeated Indian Cleveland. In turn, the Indians inherited the longest active drought, which last won the World Series in 1948.
• In the NHL, New York Rangers suffered a Stanley Cup drought for 54 years from 1940 to 1994, when they defeated the Vancouver Canucks. The longest title drought is currently split by two teams: Toronto Maple Leafs, who have not won the Stanley Cup since 1967, and St. Louis Blues, who entered the league when it doubled in size the following season, and has not won the Cup (and has not appeared in the Cup Final since 1970).
• In the NFL, four teams have never appeared in the Super Bowl (Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, and Jacksonville Jaguars), and eight other teams have never won the game. The longest active title drought is from the Arizona Cardinals franchise, which last won the NFL championship in the 1947 season. The Cardinals have played home games in four different cities in three market areas since the last team won the title: Chicago, St. Louis, and the Phoenix suburbs of Tempe and Glendale.
• The 12 NBA teams never won the championship. The Sacramento Kings' longest league drought, which has not won the championship or even been to the NBA Finals since 1951, when they were known as the Rochester Royals. Sacramento is the fifth different city to host the team since last winning title (Rochester, Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Omaha are the others).
• In the CFL, the gray Cup drought is continuous and is currently the longest held by the Winnipeg Blue Hunters in 26 years. The Blue Bombers last won the Gray Cup to 78 in 1990 when they defeated Eskimo Edmonton 50-11.
• In Major League Soccer (MLS), the longest current MLS Cup drought is 20 years, hosted by three teams, FC Dallas, New England Revolution and the New York Red Bulls, as each team fails to win the title league though has competed in every MLS season dating back to 1996. All have made an MLS Cup Final appearance (Dallas lost to the Colorado Rapids in MLS Cup 2010, New York lost to the Columbus Crew in MLS Cup 2008, and New England lost to the Los Angeles Galaxy in MLS Cup 2002, MLS Cup 2005 and MLS Cup 2014 and to Houston Dynamo in MLS Cup 2006 and MLS Cup 2007). Atlanta United FC, Minnesota United FC, Montreal Impact, New York City FC, Orlando City SC, Union Philadelphia, and Vancouver Whitecaps FC have also never won an MLS Cup title but were added as expansion teams after 1996. Dysfunctional teams CD Chivas USA, Miami Fusion FC, and Tampa Bay Mutiny have never won an MLS Cup before closing.
• With regard to other major domestic trophies, the longest active Supporting Shield Lover is shared by two teams, the Colorado Rapids and the New England Revolution. Nobody won the Supporters' Shield despite competing in every MLS season since 1996. Among the MLS teams, Lamar Hunt US Open is the longest race of 20 years, divided by three teams, Colorado Rapids, New York Red Bulls, and San Jose Earthquakes. Four other US-based teams have yet to win the Open Cup (Houston Dynamo, Philadelphia Union, Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake), but were added as expansion teams after 1996. Three MLS teams based in Canada, Montreal Impact, Toronto FC, and Vancouver Whitecaps FC do not qualify as they compete in the Voyageurs Cup.

City with significant drought

Those who believe in the Buffalo Curse cite as an example of four consecutive Super Bowl losses by Buffalo Bills from 1990 to 1993, as well as the failure of Buffalo Sabers to ever win the Stanley Cup. Wide Right, No Goal, and The Music City Miracle also contribute to belief in the Buffalo Curse. Carefully broken again in 2006, when Sabers lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Final, as four of their top six defeats lost in injury along with Tim Connolly, top scorer in the playoffs of the time. injury. Although the Sabers made it back to the finals of the next year's conference, they lost again, this time to the rival division of the Ottawa Senator. It should be noted that Buffalo Bills won the AFL championship in 1964 and 1965. The "curse" suspect, however, has not yet expanded to the suburbs or small league teams - Buffalo Bandit from the NLL has won 4 league championships (1992, 1993, 1996, 2008) and six divisions of the Championship (1992, 1993, 1994, 2004, 2006, 2008), and Western New York Flash from the National Women's Soccer League, based in Buffalo but playing home games in Rochester, winning the 2016 NWSL Championship. Flash also won the league title at two competitions directly preceded by NWSL - Women's Professional Soccer in 2011 and WPSL Elite in 2012. Flash also won the NWSL Shield, awarded to the team with the best regular season record, in the inaugural 2013 league season but lost in the championship final for Portland Thorns FC. The Buffalo Beauts of the National Women Hockey League won their first Isobel Cup in the 2016-17 season.

San Diego Padres has never won the World Series, believed to come from San Diego Sports Curse . The former NFL team of San Diego, Chargers and the previous NBA team, Rockets and Clippers, never won the Super Bowl or the NBA championship when they were inside the city. The Padres is tied with Rangers Texas for the World Series (two) of the seven teams without World Series championships. The Chargers won the AFL Championship 1963 and only appeared in one Super Bowl (Super Bowl XXIX, which they lost to San Francisco 49ers, 49-26).

Some cities with at least three teams experience a shorter but more famous drought. Minneapolis-Saint Paul has not reached the championship series since the Twins won the 1991 World Series. This drought, as happened in Buffalo, has not expanded into league or minor league teams - two such teams, Minnesota Lynx WNBA and Minnesota Stars from the North American Football League currently, won the league championship in 2011, and Lynx claimed other league titles in 2013 and 2015.

Since the founding of Major League Soccer in 1996, Columbus and Washington have won three major US football (MLS Supporters' Shield, MLS Cup and US Open Cup) trophies during their "Big Four" drought. Toronto won all three major Canadian football trophies (MLS Supporters' Shield, MLS Cup and Voyageurs Cup) in the 2017 MLS season, during the current "Big Four" drought. San Jose have won MLS Supporters 'Shield and MLS Cup during the Big Four drought while Portland and Salt Lake City have won the MLS Cup (but no MLS Supporters' Shields or US Open Cups) during their "Big Four" drought.

All Canadian cities listed above have won several Gray Cups during their "Big Four" drought listed above.

In the VFL/AFL (1897-present), the longest drought was in South Melbourne/Sydney, which won their third prime minister in 1933, but did not win its first position until 2005, 72 years later. The second longest drought in the league was St Kilda (69 years) who won the first and only prime minister in 1966. Melbourne Demons currently holds the longest active drought after not winning the prime minister since 1964.

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¹ Fitzroy joined the Brisbane Bears in 1996, having never appeared in another Grand Final after their 1944 prime minister, to become the Brisbane Lions. The new Lions team is more referred to as a continuation of the old Brisbane team than Fitzroy.
² This is commonly known as "Colliwobbles".
³ Geelong finished runner-up in 1897, but no Grand Final is needed under the final round-robin system in place of that year.

Baseball

South Korea

Lotte Giants has not won the KBO League since 1992.

Rugby League

The Parramatta Eels has the longest active drought in the NRL for thirty-two years, having not won the prime minister since 1986. For reference, the first Prime Minister Parramatta came in the 35th season in 1981. The next longest active drought was twenty-three years held by Canberra Raiders who have not won the prime minister (not appearing in the Grand Final) since 1994.

The North Sydney Bears holds the longest premier drought in NSWRL/NRL for a total of seventy-seven years. This took place between their second prime minister in 1922 until the end of 1999 when they started a short term merger with Manly-Warringah known as the Northern Eagles. North Sydney is also experiencing the longest drought waiting for the next grand final finish that reaches fifty-six years. Their last final appearance was against Newtown in 1943. The merger was disbanded after three seasons that resulted in North Sydney being removed from the league. In 2018 they are still applying for re-entry.

The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks won their first prime minister in 2016 after 50 NSWRL/ARL/Super League/NRL seasons - the longest wait for the first title of any club. Prior to this, Sharks had played in four Grand Final (including replays in 1978) for one draw and three defeats.

The South Sydney Rabbitohs won 20 prime ministers at NSWRL from the beginning of the league in 1908 to 1971, but had to wait to win their 21st title (1 in the NRL era) until 2014, a 41-year drought (Rabbitohs dormant in 2000- 01).

Gold Coast itself as a city has experienced a long dry season. The original Gold Coast side was founded in 1988 as The Gold Coast-Tweed Giants and later renamed it three times. First as The Gold Coast Seagulls, then Gold Coast Gladiators and then The Gold Coast Chargers. In 2006, The Gold Coast Titans entered the competition. Since 1988, no Gold Coast team has made it to the grand final or winning the premier title. The best season for any franchise is in 2010, when the Gold Coast Titans make the preliminary final.

Hull F.C. lost seven times in a row at the Final Challenge Cup at Wembley Stadium between 1959 and 2008. The team won two Challenge Cups during that time, but the final victory was at Elland Road (1982 replay) and Millennium Stadium (2005, while Wembley is being rebuilt).

Warrington Wolves was founded in 1876 and has won three prime ministers in their history with the last in 1955. Of all the current teams in the English Super League they have waited longer than any other team to win next premiership. In 2017, it has been 62 years since Warrington has won the prime minister.

The Castleford Tigers currently hold a record for a long time to win the premiership in The Super League or The NRL. Founded in 1926, Castleford only played in three grand finals (1938,1969 & 2017) and for the first time in their 91-year history they finished first in the 2017 Super League season to claim their first league shield leader. Castleford drought for 91 years to await the first title eclipse The Cronulla Sutherland Sharks noted in The NRL 49 years that has the longest drought of any professional rugby league team in Australia to await its first title.

Rugby union

In France, ASM Clermont Auvergne has a history of championship that is arguably tortured as the most "condemned" team in North America or Australia. From their formation in 1911 to 2009, they have never won the national title despite making the last championship 10 times, and have conducted trials in those six matches.

The drought peaked in three successive-degree defeats in 2007 to 2009, and Les Jaunards finally broke through 2010 to win their first title after 91 years of competition (they did not play in 1915-1919 or 1940-1942 because of World War I and World War II).

Cricket

Queensland won the Sheffield Shield in 1994/95, the 63rd season, after finishing second on 11 occasions at the time. In those 46 years, only five teams competed for the Shield, as Tasmania was accepted in 1977/78 (winning the Shield in 2007/08, after 30 years).

Somerset have not won the British County Championships since they were accepted into the competition in 1891. Gloucestershire has not won the Championship since it was founded in 1890, but won three unofficial "Champion County" titles in the 1870s, the latter in 1874.

Northamptonshire have not won the Championship since being accepted in the competition in 1905, after which the club was granted first class status.

The England cricket team has never won 50 times in the ICC World Cup, although England established the cricket game.

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See also

• NHL
• NFL
• NBA
• MLB
• MLS
• The current NFL franchise list after the dry season
• List of major league baseball Franchise post dry season
• List of the National Basketball Association franchise post dry season
• List of National Hockey League franchise post dry season
• List of Major League Soccer post-season drought
• List of Canadian Hockey League leagues post dry season

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