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Atlanta's soccer team started play in 2017, and promptly broke multiple records for attendance at Major League Soccer games, going on to win the MLS championship in its second season in 2018, and The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup and The Campeones Cup in 2019. Sharing ownership with the Falcons, Atlanta United moved into Mercedes-Benz Stadium at its opening in late August 2017. United launched a reserve side, Atlanta United 2, in 2018 in the second-tier league now known as the USL Championship; it switched to the third-level MLS Next Pro, a league made up almost exclusively of MLS reserve sides, in 2023. United 2 played its first season in the Gwinnett Stripers' ballpark in Lawrenceville, but has since moved to Kennesaw State's Fifth Third Bank Stadium.
The Atlanta Braves' regular baseball season takes place April through September at Truist Park, a stadium to the north of Atlanta just across the Cobb County line off the intersection of I-75 and I-285. In South Atlanta is the site of the former Fulton County Stadium, with a preserved section of wall where Hank Aaron hit his historic 715th home run. The Fulton County Stadium site and the adjacent Turner Field (where the Braves played from 1997 to 2016) have since been purchased by Georgia State University (see below for more details on the school's plans for the site). Also of note is that the Braves have their top minor-league team in the metropolitan area—the Gwinnett Stripers play at Coolray Field in Lawrenceville.
The 1998 and 2016 NFC Champions gear up each September to kick off the official football season in Downtown. The Falcons moved into Mercedes-Benz Stadium, then the league's newest venue, in 2017. Mercedes-Benz Stadium hosts most of the events that its predecessor, the Georgia Dome, had hosted, most notably the Southeastern Conference football championship game and the Peach Bowl (one of the six bowl games associated with the College Football Playoff). It has since hosted other events, such as Super Bowl LIII in 2019, and will host eight FIFA World Cup matches in 2026.
The Atlanta Hawks have played at this location since 1972, when it was known as the Omni Coliseum. The Coliseum was demolished and rebuilt in 1997, which is the current structure of State Farm Arena. You can expect to find the Hawks playing here for their 41 home games of the regular basketball season.