{"id":321045,"date":"2026-05-18T10:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:31:10","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-31-san-francisco-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321045\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 31 San Francisco-Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">San Francisco last year welcomed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/11\/sports-business-awards-sports-team-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/11\/sports-business-awards-sports-team-of-the-year\/\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a>, a Sports Business Awards nominee for Team of the Year after selling out all 22 home games at Chase Center and drawing a league-record total of 397,408 fans. The arena also hosted the 2025 NBA All-Star Game and will have a 2028 NCAA Division I men\u2019s basketball regional. Multiple departures hurt the market\u2019s ranking, including the A\u2019s for Las Vegas and StubHub for New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Rankings<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-san-francisco\/\">#19<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2024 Event Hosting: Not ranked<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">2025 Soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-9-san-francisco-bay-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/26\/best-sports-business-cities-soccer-no-9-san-francisco-bay-area\/\">#9<\/a> (includes San Jose-Santa Clara)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco last year welcomed the Golden State Valkyries, a Sports Business Awards nominee for Team of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[133890,8256,133891,37390,18739,19075,9591,143,145,144,9739,133907],"class_list":["post-321045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-chase-center","tag-data-and-insights","tag-gensler","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-nba-all-star-game","tag-ncaa","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-print","tag-stubhub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}