Unrivaled is coming back to South Philadelphia for a second straight year, and tickets for the February 2027 event go on sale Thursday at 4 p.m. through Ticketmaster and the league's website. The 3-on-3 women's basketball league will hold its second “Philly is Unrivaled Presented by Xfinity” tour stop at Xfinity Mobile Arena on February 15, 2027.
The announcement comes after Unrivaled's Philadelphia debut in January shattered expectations. That doubleheader drew a sellout crowd of 21,490 spectators, according to Front Office Sports, setting an all-time record for the most-attended regular-season professional women's basketball game and becoming the most-attended event in Xfinity Mobile Arena's history. That turnout dwarfs the roughly 1,000-seat capacity of Unrivaled's primary Miami venue, making the Philadelphia crowd a major proof-of-concept for the league's big-arena road dates.
Unrivaled held its first regular-season games outside Miami in Philadelphia last season, and the city marked the first professional women's basketball contest played there since December 1998, when the Philadelphia Rage of the American Basketball League folded mid-season, according to WHYY. The Rage played in the ABL, which launched in 1996, from 1997 to 1998 and featured local icon Dawn Staley before the league abruptly shut down, closing out a 28-year gap without a professional women's basketball game in the city.
Commissioner Says Tour Couldn't Skip Philly
Philadelphia is the third announced host city for Unrivaled's Season 3 tour, following New York and Boston, per PHL17's reporting. The league plans to announce additional stops through early October and will reveal its complete Season 3 schedule this fall, which will include ticket information for games at Sephora Arena in Miami.
Unrivaled commissioner Micky Lawler said the league could not imagine touring without returning to Philadelphia, a sentiment PHL17 attributed directly to her in announcing the second stop. The league held an event in Philadelphia at Dock Street Brewery South from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday.
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Philadelphia Sisters has been involved in bringing Unrivaled and other women's sports events to the city. The grassroots advocacy group, formed in 2019 by Alex Niedbalski-Sykes, comedian Wanda Sykes, Ashley Lunkenheimer, and Starla Crandall, has served as a key local catalyst for bringing Unrivaled and other women's sports events to the city, according to Forbes. The organization formed after its founders grew frustrated with having to travel to other cities just to watch professional women's sports, Forbes reports.
Newsletter subscribers get exclusive presale access Thursday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., ahead of the general on-sale at 4 p.m. Last January's Philadelphia debut drew a star-studded courtside crowd that included South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley, Kylie and Jason Kelce, Kyle Lowry, Robin Roberts, and Leslie Jones, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Local WNBA stars Natasha Cloud and Kahleah Copper were among the athletes on the court that night, per the Inquirer's account.
Bigger Business Behind the Bigger Crowds
The return trip to Philadelphia arrives amid rapid financial growth for the young league. Unrivaled closed an oversubscribed $100 million Series C funding round in August led by Ten Pillars Sports Fund, pushing the league's valuation to $650 million, according to a PR Newswire release, up from a $340 million valuation following its Series B round a year earlier.
Under Unrivaled's player-equity structure, participating athletes collectively hold a 30 percent ownership stake in the league, a pool that reached nearly $200 million in value after the Series C raise, according to AP News. Co-founders Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier designed the model so players share directly in the enterprise's growth, which AP reports has climbed 550 percent since the league's inception. Unrivaled reported $27 million in revenue during its 2025 inaugural season, with that figure estimated to reach $45 million in 2026, backed by 19 corporate sponsors and a media rights deal with Warner Bros. Discovery that puts games on TNT, truTV, and HBO Max, according to SportsPro.
The league has also used that financial muscle to compete for talent, offering competitive salaries across its first two seasons. Unrivaled was built in part to give top American players a lucrative option at home rather than heading overseas during the WNBA offseason.
Part of a Broader Local Sports Wave
Philadelphia's appetite for women's professional sports has kept building. Hoodline previously reported that a WTA professional tennis tournament returned to the city after 22 years. In June 2025, the WNBA awarded Philadelphia a new expansion franchise set to begin play in 2030 under ownership led by the 76ers ownership group and Comcast, according to CBS News. That future team is expected to eventually play in the same arena as the Sixers.
Meanwhile, Unrivaled's touring ambitions come as its permanent Miami home faces an uncertain future; Hoodline reported that WareSpace purchased Sephora Arena in Medley with plans to convert it into warehouse space, leaving the league's long-term Miami footprint unclear even as it leans further into high-capacity road stops like Philadelphia.
