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The WNBA narrowed its list of potential cities from 100 to 20 to 10. The league would evaluate each city based on 25 metrics in the categories of viewership, fan data, psychographics, sports benchmarks, and demographics.
Below is a list of current WNBA team rosters. Eastern Conference. Atlanta Dream. Atlanta Dream roster. Players Coaches; Pos. No. Nat. Name Height Weight DOB
The Canadian Football League (CFL), a much smaller league (9 teams), was founded in 1958 and is popular in Canada. All six of these leagues draw 15,000 or more fans in attendance per game on average as of 2015. This list includes a ranking by teams in the Big Four (B4) and a separate ranking including MLS and CFL teams called the Big Six (B6).
The WNBA is adding an expansion franchise for the first time since 2009 this season and more teams are on the way. Here are cities vying for a team.
Kansas City and St. Louis currently have two teams each, while the other cities have three. Atlanta had teams from all four sports (MLB’s Atlanta Braves, NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, and NHL’s Atlanta Flames) from 1972, when the expansion Flames began play, until 1980, when the Flames moved to Calgary.
The city previously had a WNBA team – the Portland Fire – from 2000-2002 before it folded. During those three seasons, the Fire were 37-59 and never made the postseason.
WNBA free agency begins, with 59 players on the list. ... WNBA teams have a salary cap of just over $1.5 million, per Spotrac, and must have 11 or 12 players on the roster.
The number of WNBA teams has varied since the league's original eight in 1997 due to expansions and later contractions; the first expansion teams were added in 1998 and were followed by two more rounds of additions that brought the total to 16 teams in 2000. Following the change in NBA ownership in 2002, the WNBA lost two teams.