Top 308 Sporting Goods Store Chains in Virginia (2026)

Metro by metro

The leading sporting goods store chains in every Virginia 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 1 metro area. Against their share in Virginia as a whole, DICK'S Sporting Goods stands out in 3 metro areas.

Relative to Virginia #1 by spend

By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026

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

Washington, DC (VA part) 1.2× · Virginia Beach, VA (VA part) 1× · Richmond, VA 0.7×

Not enough tracked stores: Harrisonburg, VA · Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA (VA part) · Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA · Winchester, VA-WV (VA part)

No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Blacksburg, VA · Charlottesville, VA · Lynchburg, VA · Roanoke, VA

DICK'S Sporting Goods
#1 in 6 metro areas

Washington, DC (VA part) · Virginia Beach, VA (VA part) · Richmond, VA · Roanoke, VA · Lynchburg, VA · Charlottesville, VA
Academy Sports + Outdoors
#1 in Blacksburg, VA

Not enough tracked stores: Harrisonburg, VA · Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA (VA part) · Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA · Winchester, VA-WV (VA part)

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

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Club Champion	▲2	+15.5%
2	Sportsman's Warehouse	-	+7.9%
3	Dover Saddlery	-	-1.4%
4	Golf Galaxy	-	-2.9%
5	DICK'S Sporting Goods	-	-7.6%
6	Trek Bicycle	▲1	-8.1%
7	Play It Again Sports	▲1	-9.1%
8	Collector's Heaven	▼1	-12.0%
9	Lacrosse Unlimited	▼1	-14.2%
10	East Coast Leisure	-	-15.5%
11	Conte's Bike Shop	-	-15.7%
12	17th Street Surf Shop	-	-16.0%
13	West Marine	▼2	-21.5%
14	Addicted to Golf	-	-66.8%

DICK'S Sporting Goods
Bass Pro Shops
Academy Sports + Outdoors
Green Top Sporting Goods
Superior Pawn & Gun
Cabela's
Sportsman's Warehouse
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

410 tracked store locations in Virginia. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 61 of the 410 stores (15%); 272 of the 308 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.