Private company

Sport Chek

Logo: Forzani Group Ltd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Canadian sporting goods retailer

Sport-Chek International 2000 Ltd. (doing business as Sport Chek) is the largest Canadian retailer of sports clothing and sporting equipment, with 191 stores throughout Canada as of 2020. It is the only national big box sporting goods retailer in Canada, although it is absent in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, while Quebec and Yukon are served by its sister brand Sports Experts instead. Its parent company, FGL Sports, also owns over a dozen sporting brands.2 It is part of Canadian Tire.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1999Founded1
SportChek store in Bowmanville, June 22 2025 (01)
Photo: Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Sport-Chek International 2000 Ltd. (doing business as Sport Chek) is the largest Canadian retailer of sports clothing and sporting equipment, with 191 stores throughout Canada as of 2020. It is the only national big box sporting goods retailer in Canada, although it is absent in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, while Quebec and Yukon are served by its sister brand Sports Experts instead. Its parent company, FGL Sports, also owns over a dozen sporting brands.2

Corporate structure

Sport Chek is part of a group headed by Canadian Tire. 9 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

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Timeline

  1. 2011Acquired Acquired by Canadian Tire1
  2. 1999Founded Founded1

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