{"id":322778,"date":"2026-05-19T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:22:09","slug":"pwhl-set-to-announce-san-jose-expansion-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322778\/","title":{"rendered":"PWHL set to announce San Jose expansion franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The PWHL is \u201cset to announce\u201d Tuesday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/14\/pwhl-expansion-to-san-jose-appears-imminent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/14\/pwhl-expansion-to-san-jose-appears-imminent\/\">San Jose<\/a> will \u201center the league for the 2026-27 season.\u201d The expansion franchise is \u201cexpected to play its home games\u201d at SAP Center and train and practice at Sharks Ice in San Jose. The league needed to \u201cwork with the Sharks,\u201d the NHL team that plays at the SAP Center, to \u201censure enough home game dates were available at the arena.\u201d The team\u2019s colors will \u201calso be unveiled\u201d Tuesday. A nickname, the front office, the coaching staff and the roster will be finalized in the \u201ccoming weeks and months.\u201d Landing a club in California \u201cfinalizes the PWHL\u2019s ambitious expansion path for this year\u201d as the league has grown from eight to 12 teams, having previously added clubs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/06\/pwhl-taps-detroit-as-first-member-of-2026-27-expansion-class\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/06\/pwhl-taps-detroit-as-first-member-of-2026-27-expansion-class\/\">Detroit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/12\/reports-pwhl-to-add-teams-to-las-vegas-hamilton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/05\/12\/reports-pwhl-to-add-teams-to-las-vegas-hamilton\/\">Las Vegas and Hamilton, Ont.<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/18\/pwhl-san-jose-pwhl-expansion-sap-center-twg-global-mark-walter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/18\/pwhl-san-jose-pwhl-expansion-sap-center-twg-global-mark-walter\/\">San Jose MERCURY NEWS, 5\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The PWHL is \u201cset to announce\u201d Tuesday that San Jose will \u201center the league for the 2026-27 season.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[401,129019,88,90,89,8859],"class_list":["post-322778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-hockey","tag-pwhl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322778","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=322778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}