List of teams to overcome 3–1 series deficits
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The following is the list of teams to overcome 3–1 series deficits mainly concerning North American professional sports within a best-of-seven series. The listed teams won three consecutive games after being down three games to one in a best-of-seven playoff series. This is similar to a comeback from a 2–0 series deficit in a best-of-five series, which also requires winning three straight games, but these are not covered here.
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All 3–1 deficit comebacks in a seven-game series involve winning three straight elimination games, finally featuring a double-elimination game seven. Longer series of this nature are almost always structured as single-elimination knockout tournaments, so one more loss ends playoff contention for the losing side.
This playoff structure is common in North American professional sports, particularly in the sports of baseball, basketball, and ice hockey.
Examples outside of North America of the seven-game structure include the Taiwan Series baseball tournament, the final round of the Japan Series, the Chinese, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, and Turkish baseball leagues, and later rounds of the Gagarin Cup of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) based in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and China. Within North America, there are also some intermediate leagues below the major league level such as hockey's Calder Cup.
Implicit in overcoming a 3–1 series deficit are all teams who have overcome a 3–0 series deficit. These are noted in the series comment cells and—lacking an explicit column in the tabular format—can be identified with a text search within the article page for the text string "3–0".