Top 200 Sporting Goods Store Chains in Maryland (2026)

Metro by metro

The leading sporting goods store chains in every Maryland 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 all 3 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Maryland as a whole, DICK'S Sporting Goods stands out in 2 metro areas.

Relative to Maryland #1 by spend

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

DICK'S Sporting Goods
Relative #1 in 2 metro areas

Baltimore, MD 1× · Washington, DC (MD part) 1.1×

Not enough tracked stores: Hagerstown, MD (MD part) · Philadelphia, PA (MD part) · Salisbury, MD

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Lexington Park, MD

DICK'S Sporting Goods
#1 in all 3 metro areas

Not enough tracked stores: Hagerstown, MD (MD part) · Philadelphia, PA (MD part) · Salisbury, MD

A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked sporting goods store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Maryland compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Maryland as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Maryland 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 Maryland is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Maryland. 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. Lacrosse Unlimited and DICK'S Sporting Goods sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Lacrosse Unlimited	-	+12.1%
2	DICK'S Sporting Goods	-	+0.4%
3	Trek Bicycle	-	-3.8%
4	West Marine	-	-8.5%
5	Play It Again Sports	-	-9.1%
6	Bike Doctor	-	-14.6%

DICK'S Sporting Goods
Bass Pro Shops
West Marine
Fred's Sports
Academy Sports + Outdoors
Charm City Run
Play It Again Sports
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

266 tracked store locations in Maryland. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 54 of the 266 stores (20%); 183 of the 200 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, the same share as across the United States.