The WNBA will expand to the San Francisco Bay Area in the 2025 season, the league announced Thursday. The team will begin play in 2025.
It is the first team to enter the league since 2008, when the Atlanta Dream joined. The WNBA is concluding its 27th season with a. They are two of the four remaining inaugural franchises . Northern California had one of the inaugural eight teams,Expansion has been on the league’s docket for years and WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has been asked for updates regularly during her tenure, which began in late 2019.
Engelbert has stressed in the years since that they wanted to be cautious about any expansion teams and not jeopardize the financial health of the league. She has long targeted introducing two teams. The league is divided into Western and Eastern Conferences that are used for the Commissioner’s Cup competition format. The playoffs are based on overall team standings no matter the conference.
While the WNBA analyzed possibilities, the NWSL added four teams, including a Bay FC club formally announced in April 2023. NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman, who was named to the job in March 2022, told the Washington Post that by 2026, the league will expand to 16 teams. It would double the size of its 2012 league.
Roster expansion and team expansion would each open up a maximum of 24 roster spots. Team expansion requires more infrastructure on a franchise and support level, and necessitates more starting roster spots than end-of-bench ones.“I don’t think that should take precedence over charter flights. I don’t think that should take precedence over salary benefits,” Plum said.
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