Penza has also a professional rugby union club, Imperia-Dynamo Penza, from Russia's Professional Rugby League.

Universitet Chita compete in the Professional Rugby League, the top division of rugby union in Russia.

RC Novokuznetsk compete in the Professional Rugby League, the highest division of rugby union in Russia.

* Pat Sanderson, Professional rugby union player who currently plays for Worcester Warriors, He has 16 caps for the English national team and is an ex-England captain

* Professional Rugby League, the top tier, professional rugby league in Russia

* Professional rugby player Darren Cave playing for Ulster Rugby and helped Ireland U20 lift the 6 nations Grand Slam in 2007

Professional rugby in the southern hemisphere kicked off with the professional All Blacks playing a professional rebel New South Wales team organised by Smith's contact, James Giltinan.

Professional rugby union side Caledonia Reds played some of their home games at McDiarmid Park before they were merged with the Glasgow Warriors in 1998.

Monino is home to VVA-Podmoskovye, current champions of the Professional Rugby League, Russia's national rugby union competition.

* Stephen Ferris, Professional rugby player ; Ulster, Ireland, British and Irish Lions.

* Toby Faletau, Professional rugby player representing Newport Gwent Dragons and Wales

* Chris Henry Professional rugby player for Irish Province Ulster.

* Ian Whitten Professional rugby player for Irish Province Ulster.

* Nevin Spence Professional rugby player for Irish Province Ulster.

* The Professional Rugby Players ' Association, the representative body of professional rugby players in England

Sanderson is also now the players representative of the This is Rugby campaign, in association with the The Professional Rugby Players ' Association, Premier Rugby Limited and the RFU, to promote the Core Values of rugby following a spate of disreputable incidents in professional premiership rugby.

Professional black players first took to the professional rugby league pitch prior to the first world war.

Professional rugby league returned to France in February 2006 when Perpignan-based club Catalans Dragons joined Super League.

Professional rugby league was briefly represented in London in the 1930s by London Highfield ( 1933 ), Acton & Willesden ( 1935 – 36 ) and Streatham & Mitcham ( 1935 – 36, disbanded March 1937 ).

* Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, an American professional baseball league

In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.

The first attempt at forming a " major league " produced the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which lasted from 1871 to 1875.

The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players operated from 1871 through 1875, and is considered by some to have been the first major league.

In 1871 the Forest Citys joined the new National Association of Professional Base Ball Players ( NA ), the first professional league.

The league joined with teams in Michigan and Ontario to form the first fully professional International Professional Hockey League ( IPHL ), in 1904.

Following the 2006 season the franchise was acquired by the group PS and J Professional Baseball Club, LLC headed by Steve Malliet, an experienced minor league executive in both affiliated and independent baseball.

Following the season's conclusion St. Paul, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, and Lincoln announced they were leaving the league to form a new independent league with five teams from the folded Central Baseball League in the southern United States ; the new league was to be known as the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.

The Northwest League of Professional Baseball ( or simply the Northwest League or NWL ) is a Class A-Short Season minor baseball league.

* WBA, a Women's Professional basketball league ( 1992-1995 )

The soccer Turlock Express team of the Professional Arena Soccer League ( PASL ) an indoor soccer league plays in the Turlock Indoor Soccer Complex.

The city is home to the Mississippi Surge, a minor league hockey team playing in the Southern Professional Hockey League.

Professional sports was introduced in the form of a minor league baseball team.

Kenny Stone, Basketball Player / Coach New Zealand Professional Basketball-Stone has won five National Basketball League championships, five all-star team honors, and one league Most Valuable Player award.

The Nippon Professional Baseball league is Japan's largest professional sports league.

* Pacific Coast Professional Football League, the shortened name of the Pacific Coast Professional Football League, an American football league, 1940 – 1948

A notable exception is the Nippon Professional Baseball league of Japan, in which many of the teams are themselves named after their parent corporations.

A compromise league, the USSF Division 2 Professional League operated in 2010 while the dispute was resolved.

The most recent attempt at a fully professional women's soccer league in the U. S., Women's Professional Soccer, first suspended its planned 2012 season and then folded completely in May of that year.

The academic qualification begins at Professional Certificate, then Professional Diploma which is equal to a 1st class honours degree and ends with Chartered Post Graduate Diploma which is a Masters level qualification.

Professional game development usually begins with a game design, which itself has several possible origins.

* 1984 Graduate and Professional Studies Program begins, extending learning opportunities to adult students.

The Monday and Tuesday before the rodeo begins the Professional Bull Riders ( PBR ) come and compete in the Happy Canyon Arena.