The PWHL Just Hit 1.1 Million Fans and Seattle's New Team Is Already Packing Them In
The Professional Women's Hockey League just dropped some numbers that should make every sports fan in this city sit up and pay attention. The PWHL surpassed one million fans in the regular season for the first time in its three-year history, and it did it faster than anyone expected.
We're talking 1.1 million people across 120 games, which breaks down to an average of 9,304 fans per game. That's a 28 percent bump over last season (including playoffs) and a 71 percent jump from the league's first year in 2023-24. The trajectory here is wild. Year one averaged 5,448 fans per game. Year two jumped to 7,230. Now we're here.
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Here's the thing that should make every Seattle sports fan grin: the expansion Seattle Torrent and Vancouver Goldeneyes were the attendance engines that helped push this league over the top. The Torrent are averaging 12,875 fans at home. That's the largest average attendance of any franchise in the league. Not close. Vancouver is second at 11,234 per game, but Seattle came in hot from day one and didn't let up.
The league reached that one million fan milestone on April 17, and it took just 109 regular season games to get there. For perspective, the PWHL needed 30 percent more games to hit a million fans for the first time in its history. That's how much momentum this league has built.
The Playoffs Are Coming, and Expansion Is Next
The Walker Cup Playoffs start Thursday with the top-seeded Montreal Victoire facing the reigning champion Minnesota Frost in one semifinal, while the Boston Fleet take on the Ottawa Charge in the other. Best-of-five series, winner takes all.
Before you even think about next season, the league is expected to announce further expansion soon. If Seattle and Vancouver's debut numbers are any indication, the PWHL is hungry to keep growing. This isn't a flash in the pan. This is a league that showed up to T-Mobile Park, saw what we wanted, and nailed it.
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