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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

San Francisco WNBA Team Already Smashing Women’s Ticket Records

  • The new team passed 15,000 season-ticket deposits for next year.
  • The Valkyries will play in the Warriors’ 18,000-seat arena.
Courtesy Golden State Valkyries

The WNBA’s Golden State Valkyries are setting women’s sports records before playing a single game.

The team announced it has received more than 15,000 season-ticket deposits for its inaugural campaign in 2025, the most of any women’s team in history. The new WNBA expansion team will play in San Francisco’s Chase Center, the same 18,000-person arena as the NBA’s Warriors, which has a capacity more than four times larger than the league’s smallest arena in Washington, D.C.

The previous women’s sports record was about 5,000 deposits for the San Diego Wave in 2021, Valkyries president Jess Smith told Sportico.

For not even existing yet, the Valkyries have generated tons of commercial buzz. The athlete-founded brand Togethxr, which has generated $3 million in revenue from its “Everyone Watches Women’s Sports” apparel over the past seven months, recently launched its first WNBA team-partnership with the Valkyries. The purple version of the shirt was sold at WNBA All-Star weekend, and the only sizes remaining online on the Valkyries website are double- and triple-XL.

Each deposit costs $25 per seat, but the date for the season-ticket sale hasn’t yet been announced. The sale will be first come, first serve based on when fans made their deposits, but Warriors season-ticket depositors will go first.

The team’s expansion draft is scheduled for December.

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