American Raptors
| Founded | 2006 | |
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| Location | Glendale, Colorado, U.S. | |
| Ground(s) | Infinity Park | |
| Coach(es) | Mose Timoteo | |
| Captain(s) | TBA | |
| League(s) | Super Rugby Americas | |
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The American Raptors were a professional rugby union team that was based in Glendale, Colorado. The team played in two seasons of the transcontinental Super Rugby Americas competition from 2023 to 2024, before withdrawing from professional rugby ahead of the 2025 season.
Established as the amateur "Glendale Raptors" in 2006, the team became a professional club upon joining Major League Rugby as a founding member in 2017, but they played there only three years, competing as the "Colorado Raptors" in their final shortened season of 2020 before withdrawing from the league.
After Major League Rugby, the team renamed themselves the "Colorado XOs" and turned their attention to developing rugby players from athletes originally from other sports, before becoming the "American Raptors" in 2021.