{"id":206547,"date":"2025-09-07T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206547\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:42:08","slug":"valkyries-set-wnba-attendance-record-ahead-of-caitlin-clarks-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206547\/","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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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>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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Jose in mid-September and play in the SAP Center<\/a>, which has a capacity of 17,562.<\/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":3,"featured_media":206548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1339,15173,276,2473,1362,1370,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-206547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-golden-state-valkyries","12":"tag-inside-sports","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115160714076700796","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}