The team is the first expansion team in 17 years, and the first in WNBA history to sell 10,000 season tickets. Valkyries fans cheer during the first quarter of the home exhibition game against the Los Angeles Sparks earlier this month. 5 but announced last week that she will remain in Europe this season and join the Valkyries next year. A team with no expectations can only exceed them, and that just might carry the Valkyries for the immediate future. As the fans cheered, they began to stand, a few at first and then nearly everyone.