There’s been loads of discuss in regards to the development of the WNBA this season, and far of it has been attributed to a rookie class headlined by Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. However, it’s been a workforce with out a prime 2024 draft choose that simply made historical past for promoting out season tickets in consecutive years: the Las Vegas Aces.
The Aces introduced on Thursday they utterly offered out their 2025 season ticket memberships, changing into the primary workforce in WNBA historical past to take action in back-to-back seasons. It’s not the primary time that the Aces fanbase had made historical past; they grew to become the primary workforce in league to promote out all of their common season dwelling video games in a single season again in June.
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The Las Vegas Aces have offered out of season ticket memberships for the 2025 season, making them the primary workforce in @WNBA historical past to promote out season ticket allotments in back-to-back seasons.
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— Las Vegas Aces (@LVAces) September 13, 2024
Las Vegas has an apparent benefit with regards to these kind of ticket sale data on condition that they play in a smaller area than another WNBA groups. Michelob ULTRA Enviornment can seat 12,000, whereas arenas that additionally home NBA groups — like Barclay’s Middle, Crypto.com, and Gainbridge Fieldhouse — can seat as much as 20,000, making sell-outs tougher.
Nonetheless, Las Vegas boasted the league’s third-best attendance this season — averaging 11,381 attendees per night time, under the Indiana Fever (17,009) and New York Liberty (12,646).
Together with the remainder of the league, season ticket costs will enhance subsequent season in Las Vegas. The typical ticket worth will enhance from $30.78 this yr to $43.95 for subsequent season. The largest leap can be for the costliest seats — courtside tickets will enhance from $500 to $600 per recreation, per the Las Vegas Overview Journal.
The workforce introduced that 92% of season ticket holders for the 2024 season renewed their membership, with the remaining 8% being to people on the ready listing.
The sell-out is reflective of an simple reputation increase throughout the WNBA, in addition to of the Ace’s distinctive success. Las Vegas has gained the earlier two WNBA championships, and the whereas the workforce has struggled at factors this season, they nonetheless sit at fourth general within the standings, and have six Olympians on the roster. In addition they profit from the actual fact they’re headlined by A’ja Wilson, who has been probably the most dominant participant within the league this season.
Wilson praised the league’s development in an interview with SB Nation final week.
“Individuals are placing their cash the place their mouth is and investing in us,” Wilson stated. “I feel that’s the gorgeous factor about it. It’s simply the true individuals, the true buyers, the true people who need to see us develop — they’re placing their cash the place their mouth is.”
