{"id":138725,"date":"2025-09-07T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138725\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:43:10","slug":"valkyries-set-wnba-attendance-record-ahead-of-caitlin-clarks-fever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/138725\/","title":{"rendered":"Valkyries set WNBA attendance record, ahead of Caitlin Clark&#8217;s Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/09\/05\/history-made-valkyries-secure-playoff-spot-with-grit-heart\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a> set a WNBA record against the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday afternoon at Chase Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries officially set the WNBA record for most total fans at home games, with 397,408, outpacing Indiana\u2019s 349,313, also from this season. The Valkyries also averaged a league record 18,064, with the team selling out each of its 22 home games this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have the best crowd, and I think we have the best fans in the league, hands down,\u201d Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase said after the team lost 78-72.<\/p>\n<p>Fan support has been so strong that fans have begun to call Chase Center \u201cBallhalla\u201d when the Valkyries play there.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion team benefited from that robust fan support in the Bay Area, going 14-8 in San Francisco. The Valkyries are just 9-11 on the road, with the team still having two more road games left in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a sellout crowd, the Valkyries clinched a spot in the playoffs by defeating the Dallas Wings 84-80. However, because of scheduling conflicts with the Laver Cup tennis tournament the team will not have a chance to play a first round playoff game at Chase Center.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Golden State will head south to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/09\/04\/valkyries-to-play-first-playoff-game-in-san-jose-due-to-arena-conflict\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose in mid-September and play in the SAP Center<\/a>, which has a capacity of 17,562.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: September 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Golden State Valkyries set a WNBA record against the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[402,2356,4804,99,434],"class_list":["post-138725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-california","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}