At present, it appears that the management status of professional sports teams has not gotout of the structural deficit in any countries including the United States as well as Korea,except few cases. Further, with the recent ongoing economic recession, it seems to be reachedthe status that professional sports teams should reevaluate its ownership and governancestructure, and then develop new sources of revenue. Like commonly using borrowing funds orincreasing private investment of the owner in case that professional sports teams need to raiseadditional funds, their own public offering is just one of alternatives to raise funds. Ifcompanies or owners of the teams are undeterred by the various disadvantages accompaniedwith the transition into publicly-held corporation (such as regulations under corporate andsecurities law, weakened control, etc.), in respect of the prompt and convenient way of fundraising, a professional sports team in the form of publicly-held corporation can be a properbusiness model. Thus, this article analyzes advantages and disadvantages of transition of theprofessional sports team into a publicly-held corporation based on the cases primarily in theU.S. which is one of the most developed countries in professional sports industries, andultimately examines potentials of the IPO (public offering) of Korean professional teams as abusiness model for the new source of revenue by reviewing the legal issues related toprofessional sports teams in the form of publicly-held corporations as a convenient way ofraising revenue as well as a means of checks and balances. After all, it is needed to positively think that the professional sports team in the form ofa publicly-held corporation, especially sports team corporation, can be established as a modelto achieve the improvement of competition performances which is the purpose of the teamexistence as well as profit maximization of the team (corporation) and fans-as-shareholders atthe same time by checking arbitrary controls and corruption of team management appeared in the existing sports franchise and by pursuing the convenience of creating profit. Further, inplaning public offering of a sports team (company), as for the various perks such as votingright, dividend, and ticket privileges, the appropriate limitations can be arranged like sportsteam corporations in the U.S., and by doing this, a team will be able to be out of the realburden under the pressure of immediate profit creation and then pursue their long-terminterests and strategies.