Top 519 Sporting Goods Store Chains in North Carolina (2026)

Metro by metro

The leading sporting goods store chains in every North Carolina 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 6 metro areas, Academy Sports + Outdoors in 6 metro areas. Against their share in North Carolina as a whole, DICK'S Sporting Goods stands out in 2 metro areas.

Relative to North Carolina #1 by spend

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

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

Charlotte, NC (NC part) 1.5× · Raleigh-Cary, NC 1.2×

Not enough tracked stores: Goldsboro, NC · Greenville, NC · Rocky Mount, NC · Virginia Beach, VA (NC part)

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Asheville, NC · Burlington, NC · Durham-Chapel Hill, NC · Fayetteville, NC · Greensboro-High Point, NC · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC · Jacksonville, NC · Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC · Wilmington, NC · Winston-Salem, NC

DICK'S Sporting Goods
#1 in 6 metro areas

Charlotte, NC (NC part) · Raleigh-Cary, NC · Wilmington, NC · Asheville, NC · Durham-Chapel Hill, NC · Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC
Academy Sports + Outdoors
#1 in 6 metro areas

Greensboro-High Point, NC · Winston-Salem, NC · Fayetteville, NC · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC · Jacksonville, NC · Burlington, NC

Not enough tracked stores: Goldsboro, NC · Greenville, NC · Rocky Mount, NC · Virginia Beach, VA (NC part)

A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked sporting goods store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to North Carolina compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in North Carolina as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in North Carolina 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 North Carolina is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in North Carolina. 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. Alpine Ski Center and Play It Again Sports sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Alpine Ski Center	▲1	+19.6%
2	Play It Again Sports	▲1	+11.0%
3	Dunham's Sports	-	+10.4%
4	Sportsman's Warehouse	-	+6.4%
5	PGA TOUR Superstore	▲2	+4.9%
6	Run In	▲1	+4.7%
7	Bert's Surf Shop	▲1	+3.0%
8	Academy Sports + Outdoors	-	+0.6%
9	Tsunami Surf Shop	▲1	+0.1%
10	DICK'S Sporting Goods	-	-1.5%
11	Bass Pro Shops	-	-2.6%
12	West Marine	▲1	-7.8%
13	Golf Galaxy	-	-8.9%
14	Dover Saddlery	▲1	-14.8%
15	Ski Country Sports	▲1	-16.2%

DICK'S Sporting Goods
Academy Sports + Outdoors
Bass Pro Shops
Dunham's Sports
Neuse Sport Shop
Sportsman's Warehouse
Eastern Outfitters
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

671 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 96 of the 671 stores (14%); 485 of the 519 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are sporting goods stores, against 4% across the United States.