2025 Indiana Fever season
| 2025 Indiana Fever season | |
|---|---|
| Coach | Stephanie White |
| Arena | Gainbridge Fieldhouse |
| Attendance | per game |
| Results | |
| Record | 6–6 (.500) |
| Place | 0th (Eastern) |
|
2026 season → | |
The 2025 Indiana Fever season will be the franchise's 26th season in the WNBA and their 3rd season under head coach, Stephanie White, who returns to the franchise where she was previously coached the Fever from 2015-16.
In August 2024, the WNBA announced that the Fever would host 2025 WNBA All-Star Game and related events in July 2025 for the first time in franchise history. Tickets for All-Star weekend events went on sale on April 29, 2025 and sold out within seven hours.
The Fever finished 6th in the 2024 regular season, making the playoffs for the first time since 2016. On October 27, 2024, the Fever announced the firing of head coach Christie Sides, after the end of the 2024 season. Then on November 1, the Fever announced Stephanie White as their new head coach.
In 2024, the WNBA held its first expansion draft since 2008. The league's new expansion team, the Golden State Valkyries, selected Temi Fagbenle from the Fever roster during the draft.
On January 16, 2025, Pacers Sports & Entertainment announced that the Fever would have its own devoted practice facility walking distance from Gainbridge Fieldhouse by 2027. The $78 million exclusive sports performance center will be spread across 108,000 sq. ft., making it the largest practice facility among the existing WNBA teams.
The Fever set a WNBA record for highest resale ticket prices for a preseason game with an average ticket price of $440 (before fees) for their May 4 exhibition game against Brazil at Carver–Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. However, on game day, it was reported that resale ticket prices for this game was at an average ticket price of $670, making it the highest price on record for any WNBA game since 2015. The game was the third most viewed preseason basketball game on ESPN (in both NBA and WNBA history) since 2010 with 1.3 million viewers.
In May 2025 the Indiana Fever launched Fever Direct with Endeavor Streaming to provide access to a maximum of 18 live regular season games and full game replays to fans in approved Midwest regions.
In her regular season Fever debut on May 17, 2025, newly signed free agent, DeWanna Bonner, became the number three all-time leading scorer in the WNBA, surpassing Tina Thompson.
On May 26, 2025, the Fever announced that Caitlin Clark had suffered a left quadriceps strain and would be out for a minimum of two weeks. During her June 5th status update press conference, Clark revealed her injury occurred during the Fever's May 24 game against the New York Liberty. In the May 30 match-up against Connecticut, two more Fever guards, Sydney Colson and Sophie Cunningham, both left the game with upper left leg and right ankle injuries, respectively. To keep a roster with 10 game-eligible players, the Fever signed guard, Aari McDonald, on June 1 to an emergency hardship contract. Due to Clark and Cunningham's likely return for the June 14 game hosting the Liberty, McDonald was waived by the Fever on June 13. Clark and Cunningham returned to play on June 14 in the Fever's home win over the New York Liberty, handing the reigning champs their first loss of the 2025 season. In the game, the team set a new franchise record with seventeen made three-pointers in a single game.