The WNBA is bringing All-Star Weekend to the Bay Area in 2027
Chase Center hosts the showcase on July 30–31 — All-Star Weekend in only the Valkyries’ third season, after two years of sellouts and playoff basketball.
Chase Center in Valkyrie violet before Golden State hosted Indiana on Aug. 31, 2025. The WNBA is bringing All-Star Weekend back to this floor on July 30–31, 2027.
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San Francisco is getting the WNBA’s biggest weekend of the summer. The league announced Tuesday that its 2027 All-Star Game and the events around it will be held July 30 and 31 at Chase Center, home of the Golden State Valkyries. The city has never hosted the game before. The Valkyries will be in only their third season when it arrives.
Friday night at Chase Center is the 3-point contest and Shooting Stars, on ESPN at 5 p.m. Pacific. The All-Star Game follows on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Pacific on ABC. The sixth annual WNBA Live fan festival moves down the street to Moscone Center, with community events and watch parties around the Bay still to be announced.
Commissioner Cathy Engelbert credited Bay Area fans, going back to 2023, when the expansion team was first announced. The attendance sheet backs her up. Golden State sold out every home game of its inaugural 2025 season, set WNBA records for average attendance (18,064) and total fans (397,408), and became the first expansion team in league history to reach the playoffs. On Monday night the Valkyries clinched a second straight postseason berth, beating Dallas 78–70 to move to 25–9 — the second-best record in the league, behind Minnesota.
Chase Center already knows how to throw one of these; NBA All-Star Weekend was here in 2025. What the Valkyries added is a home night that does not feel borrowed from the Warriors. The lighting and the court border go violet. More than 12,000 season-ticket holders turn up, with a waitlist behind them, and fans have taken to calling the place Ballhalla. Players noticed. After last month’s All-Star Game in Chicago, WNBA players’ union president Nneka Ogwumike said, “From what I’m hearing from players, they want to see one in Golden State.”
The Bay Area has had a busy run of big events. Levi’s Stadium hosted Super Bowl LX and World Cup matches earlier this year. Last Friday, MLB gave the Giants the 2028 All-Star Game at Oracle Park. The WNBA weekend lands in the middle of that stretch — the first time the women’s league gets the treatment this city has already given the NBA and baseball.
No one has put a dollar figure on 2027 yet, and it would be smaller than a Super Bowl in any case. The nearest comparison is the last basketball All-Star week here: city officials estimated NBA All-Star 2025 at roughly $350 million in regional impact. Bay Area Host Committee CEO Zaileen Janmohamed made a simpler argument. The region has just run a Super Bowl, a World Cup, and an NBA All-Star weekend, and the Valkyries already fill the arena. The hotels, the convention space, and the sellout crowd are already in place.
Warriors owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber paid a $50 million expansion fee for the Valkyries in 2023. Portland and Toronto, who opened this season, paid more than double. Cleveland arrives in 2028. All of them are working from the template Golden State just set: treat a new women’s team as a full arena show from the first night, then win enough that the sellouts stop looking like a novelty.
Next July the best players in the league will be on that floor, for a weekend the Valkyries earned in two seasons. The clubs that came in behind them now know how quickly it can be done.