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Average regular season attendance at WNBA games from 2023 to 2025, by team

Characteristic	2023	2024	2025
Golden State Valkyries*	-	-	18,064
Indiana Fever	4,067	17,036	16,560
New York Liberty	7,776	12,730	16,323
Los Angeles Sparks	6,555	11,045	12,441
Seattle Storm	8,926	11,184	11,835
Las Vegas Aces	9,554	11,283	11,550
Phoenix Mercury	9,197	10,715	11,306
League average	6,613	9,807	11,148
Minnesota Lynx	7,776	9,292	10,080
Chicago Sky	7,243	8,757	9,073
Connecticut Sun	6,246	8,451	8,653
Dallas Wings	4,640	5,911	7,273
Washington Mystics	4,391	6,542	5,303
Atlanta Dream	3,006	4,743	4,480

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September 2025

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United States

Survey time period

2023 to 2025

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teams ranked according to 2025 attendance

Supplementary notes

* The Golden State Valkyries joined the WNBA in 2025.

In both the 2024 and 2025 seasons, an increased number of home games were played by some teams away from their usual arenas to accommodate a higher demand for tickets.

��ƽ�� calculated the figures for 2023 based on the percentage changes provided by Sports Business Journal article, which also provided the figures for 2024. Meanwhile, data for 2025 was taken from article.

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Founded in 1996, the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a professional basketball league composed of 12 teams from the United States. The Golden State Valkyries registered the highest average home attendance across the 2025 season with 18,064. This was an impressive turnout for the Valkyries', with 2025 being the team's inaugural season in the WNBA, validating the league's decision to expand the league in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Player salaries in the WNBA

Kelsey Mitchell of the Indiana Fever was the highest earner in the WNBA in the 2025 season, with an annual salary of approximately 249,000 U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, looking at the average annual salaries in the WNBA vs. the NBA, the average WNBA player took home around 114,000 U.S. dollars in 2025, which was nearly 100 times lower than the average NBA player salary in the 2024/25 season.

WNBA league records

Since the opening season in 1997, former and current WNBA players have been setting high standards and surpassing old ones. Sue Bird was the career games leader of the WNBA, having played a remarkable 580 professional games before her retirement in 2022. Meanwhile, the WNBA's all-time scoring leader was Diana Taurasi as of September 2025, who began her career with the Phoenix Mercury in 2004. Recent years have seen high-profile college basketball players also enter the league, such as Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Paige Bueckers, all of whom have helped in varying degrees in raising the league's viewership.