The sport in Moa was born with the triumph of the Revolution, until 1959 the only sport that was practiced on occasions was baseball, but not in an organized way, but in friendly matches with teams from nearby towns, but these encounters represented a form of recreation for the neighbors.

In 1959 the Moa Mining Bay Company formed a baseball team with its workers that was directed by Fidel Lora Cala, a Cuban baseball star who worked in the mine. Also in that year there are other baseball teams in Moa such as the Marítimos and the Madereros. The company itself forms a softball team among its technicians and it is the first time that this sport is practiced in Moa.

In 1961 in Moa, even though it was a neighborhood of Baracoa, a delegation of the recently created National Sports Institute (INDER) was formed. Elidio Rodríguez was the delegate and a group of old baseball activists cooperated with him to help promote sports; they were Agustín Gutiérrez Esplugas, Pedro Merencio Matos, Rafael de la Cruz López (Checha), Marcial Matos and Fidel Lora Cala.

In the same year, the worker Armando Quiala, who under the name of Kid Tenazas had practiced boxing and had presented some posters in Moa since 1958 with boxers from Mayarí, opened a gymnasium of that sport in Los Mangos with 20 students and began to practice.

Volleyball took off in Moa with the arrival at the Pedro Sotto Alba factory of the engineer Rafael Carvajal Moracén, who had been part of the national preselection of that sport.

Since then, volleyball became one of the most popular sports and one of the most supported by the public, as it began to be played in schools and neighborhoods and figures such as Wilfredo Robinson, who was a national athlete, emerged.

In 1988, after the death of Carvajal Moracén, the Rafael Carvajal In Memoriam volleyball tournament was instituted, which is held every year and where sets of Copa Carvajal 2013 (2) work centers and neighborhoods participate and is a sample of both massiveness and the fondness for the discipline.

Baseball was a sport that took root in the region and continued to be the most popular. In 1961, municipal tournaments began to be organized, making it the most popular sport in the region.

Numerous teams were formed that participated in the first category championships, such as the Militia School, the Pedro Sotto Alba factory, the Timber Club, the Marítimos Club, representative teams from Yamanigüey and Punta Gorda and others from Moa.

In the early 1980s, lighting towers were installed in the stadium and night games began to be played at night. The stadium has hosted not only national teams but also foreign teams.

The Angel Romero Videaux stadium, which inaugurated its Moa Champion (49) stands in 1968 with a capacity for 7,000 people, has been the scene of numerous football matches, many of which have been played by Soviets. It has also been the site of numerous boxing matches of the Comandante Pedro Sotto Alba Boxing Cup.

Football began to be played in Moa in the late 1970s when sailors from the Soviet ships docked in port would go ashore and practice in a nearby field.

Engineer José Fernández Acosta, from the Pedro Sotto Alba factory, who had practiced this sport, formed a team with nickel workers and began to hold matches with the Soviets, thus the soccer hobby arose in Moa.

In 1966, when young students from the University of Oriente arrived to join as nickel workers and continue their studies in the Extramuro Plan, Ricardo Quintana Salvador, one of them, who was a basketball player, was interested in setting up a field that was prepared on the site occupied by the Extramuro Plan in Rolo Monterrey, that is how the practice of basketball began in Moa.

In the 1960s, the outstanding Cuban baseball player Fidel Lora introduced the sport of shooting in Moa, and in 1984 the sport hunting club was established.

Although boxing has been practiced in Moa since the triumph of the Revolution, in 1978 the sport began to boom due to the fact that in that year the Comandante Pedro Sotto Alba Boxing Cups began to be held, which have been held every year and have become an international event. In January 1981 in Moa, posters of the Giraldo Córdova Cardín International Tournament were held. Many young Moenses have become national figures in boxing.

Chess began to be practiced in Moa since 1965 and already in 1969 the first municipal tournament was held here. This sport became very popular after the arrival of Soviet specialists who created a chess club. Today we have a Grand Master, the young Isán Ortiz.

Cycling began to be practiced in Moa in an organized way in 1978, and its top figure in the Spartaquiadas 2013 014 was Odalis Thomps, who participated in several international events.

The most important event in the sports sector in Moa is the Espartaquiadas del Níquel, which began to be held in May 1988 and has been held every year since then. More than a thousand worker-athletes participate in this tournament, who qualify in the basic tournaments held throughout the year. The Espartaquiadas del Níquel are the most important mass event in Cuba, since more than 15 disciplines are practiced, including sport fishing, judo, mini-football, chess and others.

During the revolutionary period, a group of activists who managed to encourage the people of Mojácar to practice sports stood out in the promotion of sports. Among the activists who remained with sports for many years are the late Fidel Lora Cala in baseball, softball, shooting and chess, Armando Quiala (Kid Tenazas) in boxing; Pedro Merencio Matos in various sports and the compilation of the history of sports; Ernesto Carvajal Moracén in volleyball, Rafael de la Cruz (Checha) in baseball and the conservation of the facilities; Marcial Matos in baseball, Agustín Gutiérrez Esplugas in the preparation of umpires; Colín César in baseball and as an umpire in that sport; Aquiles Borges in baseball, as well as José Civil, Manuel Garrido, Guanchán Rodríguez and many more.

Musical aerobic gymnastics has a primordial place in Moa with the magnificent work of Reynerio Castellanos, who has led this discipline to obtain first places in national competitions.

Another important sporting event that takes place in Moa is the Maramoa, which had as its main engine the late engineer Eduardo Martin. This event takes place every year and its winners participate in both the Marahumbolt and the Marabana with excellent results.

Among the athletes from Moa who have excelled and participated in national teams and international events are Yurisleydis Lupetey, world champion in women's judo; Odalis Thomps in swimming and cycling; José Tabera in weightlifting; Wilfredo Robinson in volleyball, and in baseball Vicente Salazar, Yoenis Duboy and Oscar del Rosario, among many others.