The Golden State Valkyries are a first-year WNBA expansion team with no star players and a 19-18 record. Despite a modest record, the Valkyries sold out all 17 home games at San Francisco's Chase Center, averaging 18,064 fans per game—the league’s highest average. The WNBA reached an all-time attendance record of 2,501,609 fans as of August 20, 2025, achieved with 13 teams and 226 games compared with the previous record set in 2002 with 16 teams and 256 games. The Valkyries' attendance surge has been credited as a major driver of the league-wide record.
Despite having no star players, a mediocre record, and playing in just their first season, your Golden State Valkyries have scored the highest average home game attendance numbers in the entire WNBA. The SF Giants, 49ers, and Golden State Warriors have spoiled us with so many championship parades over the last few decades that Bay Area Sports fans are disappointed when any of those teams has a .500 record, that is, when they've won about the same number of games that they've lost.
You can scoff that it's just that they've added more teams and more games to the season, but still, they broke their all-time record. The day that news broke, Yahoo Sports' report on the topic credited the Valkyries with driving that attendance surge. That outlet noted that Playing in San Francisco's Chase Center, which also hosts the NBA's Golden State Warriors, the Valkyries have sold out all 17 of their home games so far, pulling in a league-best average of 18,064 fans.
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