One day after the Washington Mystics announced they would move four home games to larger venues for the 2025 season, another WNBA team — the Chicago Sky — said they will move two home contests, both against the Indiana Fever, to the United Center.
The games — scheduled for June 7 and July 27 (previously July 26) — will mark the first-ever WNBA contests at United Center, which has a capacity of over 20,000 fans for basketball. The venue hosts the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, while the Sky play home games at Wintrust Arena, which seats 10,000.
Chicago, featuring Angel Reese, Kamilla Cardoso, Courtney Vandersloot and more, could break the franchise’s single-game attendance record of 16,444 fans, set when the team played at Allstate Arena in 2016. The United Center is likely to draw a sizable crowd when the Fever and star guard Caitlin Clark come to town.
The Fever and Sky faced each other four times in 2024, which pitted star rookies Clark and Reese against each other for the first time as pros. The rivals faced each other regularly in college, including famous clashes in the 2023 and 2024 NCAA Tournaments.
In the WNBA, Clark’s Fever won three of last year’s matchups, and she averaged 20.5 points in the contests.
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