Top 455 Sporting Goods Store Chains in Ohio (2026)

Metro by metro

The leading sporting goods store chains in every Ohio 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 9 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Ohio as a whole, DICK'S Sporting Goods stands out in 5 metro areas, Golf Galaxy in 1 metro area.

Relative to Ohio #1 by spend

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

DICK'S Sporting Goods
Relative #1 in 5 metro areas

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN (OH part) 1× · Cleveland, OH 1.2× · Dayton, OH 1.2× · Akron, OH 1.1× · Toledo, OH 1×
Golf Galaxy
Relative #1 in Columbus, OH, 1.5× its share in Ohio

Not enough tracked stores: Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH (OH part) · Lima, OH · Mansfield, OH · Springfield, OH · Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH (OH part) · Wheeling, WV-OH (OH part)

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Canton-Massillon, OH · Sandusky, OH · Youngstown-Warren, OH

DICK'S Sporting Goods
#1 in all 9 metro areas

Not enough tracked stores: Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH (OH part) · Lima, OH · Mansfield, OH · Springfield, OH · Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH (OH part) · Wheeling, WV-OH (OH part)

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

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Trek Bicycle	▲1	+17.7%
2	Dunham's Sports	-	+11.6%
3	Soccer Village	-	+8.7%
4	Bass Pro Shops	-	+2.5%
5	DICK'S Sporting Goods	-	-1.2%
6	Play It Again Sports	-	-1.8%
7	Taylor	-	-3.3%
8	Montgomery Cyclery	-	-4.5%
9	West Marine	▲3	-6.2%
10	Perani's Hockey World	-	-7.9%
11	Cabela's	-	-8.1%
12	Eddy's Bike Shop	-	-9.7%
13	Rogue Fitness	▲1	-11.9%
14	Golf Galaxy	-	-12.4%
15	Foxy Golf	-	-15.7%

DICK'S Sporting Goods
Dunham's Sports
Bass Pro Shops
Cabela's
Golf Galaxy
Play It Again Sports
Academy Sports + Outdoors
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

615 tracked store locations in Ohio. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 107 of the 615 stores (17%); 416 of the 455 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.