Trends · data through September 2026

Sporting Goods Stores in Florida

Iceflower tracks 1,273 stores from 950 sporting goods store chains in Florida. Divers Direct grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Golf Galaxy and Edwin Watts Golf.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
950
Tracked stores
1,273
Consumer panel
130M+

Metro by metro

The leading sporting goods store chains in every Florida metro area

Tracked sporting goods store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. DICK'S Sporting Goods leads in 8 metro areas, Bass Pro Shops in 5 metro areas, and Academy Sports + Outdoors in 4 metro areas. 5 chains lead at least one metro area. Against their share in Florida as a whole, West Marine stands out in 3 metro areas, PGA TOUR Superstore in 2 metro areas, and DICK'S Sporting Goods in 1 metro area.

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

Not enough tracked stores: Sebring, FL · Wildwood-The Villages, FL

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: 13 metro areas

Not enough tracked stores: Sebring, FL · Wildwood-The Villages, FL

A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked sporting goods store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Florida compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Florida as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Florida and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Florida is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked sporting goods store chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Divers Direct and Golf Galaxy sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Divers Direct - +14.7%
2 Golf Galaxy - +13.5%
3 Edwin Watts Golf - +9.2%
4 Runner's Depot - +5.8%
5 Half Hitch - +4.5%
6 DICK'S Sporting Goods - +1.9%
7 Academy Sports + Outdoors - +1.9%
8 The Bike Shop - +0.3%
9 Bass Pro Shops - -0.4%
10 PGA TOUR Superstore - -0.9%
11 West Marine - -4.2%
12 Salty Dog Surf Shop - -4.9%
13 Play It Again Sports - -5.5%
14 Sportsman's Warehouse - -5.6%
15 Sportive - -8.2%
  • DICK'S Sporting Goods
  • Academy Sports + Outdoors
  • Bass Pro Shops
  • West Marine
  • PGA TOUR Superstore
  • Sportsman's Warehouse
  • Golf Galaxy
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,273 tracked store locations in Florida. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 187 of the 1,273 stores (15%); 892 of the 950 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, against 4% across the United States.

  • DICK'S Sporting Goods (52)
  • Academy Sports + Outdoors (25)
  • Bass Pro Shops (13)
  • West Marine (63)
  • PGA TOUR Superstore (12)
  • Sportsman's Warehouse (6)
  • Golf Galaxy (11)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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