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[[File:Bong-da.jpg|thumb|right|A friendly match in [[Vietnam
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An '''exhibition game''' (also known as a '''friendly''', a '''scrimmage''', a '''demonstration''', a '''pre-season game''', a '''warmup match''', or a '''preparation match''', depending at least in part on the sport) is a [[sport|sporting event]] whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help coaches and managers select and condition players, before the competitive matches of a [[Season (sports)|league season]] or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team.
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==Baseball==
[[File:Braves spring training2008.png|thumb|300px|A spring training game between the [[Atlanta Braves]] and the [[New York Mets|Mets]], 2008]]
The [[Major League Baseball]]'s preseason is also known as [[spring training]]. All MLB teams maintain a spring-training base in [[Arizona]] or [[Florida]]. The teams in Arizona make up the [[Cactus League]], while the teams in Florida play in the [[Grapefruit League]]. Each team plays about 30 preseason games against other MLB teams. They may also play exhibitions against a local college team, a [[minor league baseball|minor-league]] team from their farm system, or even a national baseball team representing a country.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heffernon |first=Ryan |date=March 8, 2017 |title=Spring Training Game XIII: Venezuela at Royals |url=https://www.royalsreview.com/2017/3/8/14855968/spring-training-game-xiii-venezuela-at-royals |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240224212742/https://www.royalsreview.com/2017/3/8/14855968/spring-training-game-xiii-venezuela-at-royals |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |access-date=October 20, 2024 |website=Royals Review |language=en}}</ref> Some days feature the team playing two games with two different rosters evenly divided up, which are known as "split-squad" games.
Several MLB teams used to play regular exhibition games during the year against nearby teams in the other major league, but regular-season [[interleague play]] has made such games unnecessary. The two Canadian MLB teams, the [[Toronto Blue Jays]] of the [[American League]] and the [[Montreal Expos]] of the [[National League (baseball)|National League]], met annually to contest the [[Pearson Cup]]; this tradition ended when the Expos moved to Washington DC for the [[2005 in baseball|2005 season]]. Similarly, the [[New York Yankees]] played in the [[Mets–Yankees rivalry#Background and formation of Mets|Mayor's Trophy Game]] against various local rivals from 1946 to 1983.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
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The [[National Football League]] teams play three preseason games a year, with the exception of two teams each year who play a fourth game, the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame Game]] (previously before the [[2021 NFL season|2021 season expansion]], four games). These exhibition games, most of which are held in the month of August, are played for the purpose of helping coaches narrow down the roster from the offseason limit of 90 players to the regular season limit of 53 players. While the scheduling formula is not as rigid for preseason games as they are for the regular season, there are numerous restrictions and traditions that limit the choices of preseason opponents; teams are also restricted on what days and times they can play these games. Split-squad games, a practice common in baseball and hockey, where a team that is scheduled to play two games on the same day splits their team into two squads, are prohibited.
The NFL has played exhibition games in [[Europe]], [[Japan]], [[Canada]], [[Australia]] (including the [[American Bowl]] in 1999) and [[Mexico]] to spread the league's popularity (a game of this type was proposed for [[China]] but, due to financial and logistical problems, was eventually canceled). The league has tacitly forbidden the playing of non-league opponents, with the last interleague game having come in 1972 between the NFL's [[New York Jets]] and the [[Seaboard Football League]]'s Long Island Chiefs and the last game against a team other than an NFL team (the all-NFL rookie [[Chicago College All-Star Game|College All-Stars]]) was held in 1976.
Exhibition games are quite unpopular with many fans, who resent having to pay regular-season prices for two home exhibition games as part of a season-ticket package. Numerous lawsuits have been brought by fans and classes of fans against the NFL or its member teams regarding this practice, but none have been successful in halting it.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}} The [[Pro Bowl]], traditionally played after the end of the NFL season (since 2010 played the week prior to the Super Bowl), is also considered an exhibition game.
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