Phoenix is a common name for sports teams named after the mythological phoenix or, indirectly, from places named for that creature. Teams including this name include:

• Arizona Cardinals, an American football team (NFL) known as the Phoenix Cardinals from 1988 to 1993
• Arizona Coyotes, a hockey team (NHL) known as the Phoenix Coyotes from 1996 to 2014
• Phoenix Mercury, a women's basketball team (WNBA)
• Phoenix Rising FC, a soccer team (USLC)
• Phoenix Suns, a men's basketball team (NBA)

• A.F.C. Phoenix, a football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
• Altona East Phoenix SC, an Australian soccer club based in the western suburbs of Melbourne
• Phoenix Baia Mare, a football club in Romania
• FC Phoenix Banjë, a professional football club from Kosovo
• Brisbane Phoenix FC, an Australian soccer club
• Gibraltar Phoenix F.C., a defunct football club from Gibraltar
• Jõhvi FC Phoenix, an Estonian football club
• Leicester Phoenix, a rugby league football club in England
• Penmaenmawr Phoenix F.C., a Welsh football team
• GPS Portland Phoenix, a defunct American soccer team based in Portland, Maine
• South West Phoenix FC, an Australian semi-professional association football club based in Bunbury, Western Australia
• Phoenix Sports F.C., an English football club located in Barnehurst, Kent
• Phoenix Rising FC, a soccer team (USLC) based in Phoenix, Arizona
• Team Phoenix F.C., a Burmese football club
• Twin Cities Phoenix, a defunct American soccer team
• AS Phoenix Ulmu, a Romanian football club based in Ulmu, Călărași County
• Wellington Phoenix FC, a football club in Wellington, New Zealand
• Wellington Phoenix FC (A-League Women), based in Wellington, New Zealand
• Worplesdon Phoenix F.C., an English football club based in Worplesdon, Surrey

• Elon Phoenix, the athletic teams of Elon University in the United States
• UW–Green Bay Phoenix, the athletic teams of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in the United States

• Phoenix Cricket Club, in Ireland
• Yorkshire Phoenix, a cricket club in England

• Phoenix Racing, a NASCAR team
• Phoenix Racing (Germany), a touring car and GT racing team

• Manchester Phoenix, an ice hockey team in England
• Melbourne Phoenix, a netball team in Australia
• South East Melbourne Phoenix, a basketball team in Australia
• Phoenix Hagen, a basketball club in Germany
• Tamworth Phoenix, an American football club in England
• Tawe Phoenix Boat Club, the alumni club of Swansea University Rowing Club in the United Kingdom
• Victorian Phoenix Water Polo Club, based in Melbourne, Australia

• Phoenix (disambiguation)
• Phoenix club (sports), a term for a professional sports team that replaces one that has failed in a business sense