Fifty-yard-line tickets to the Super Bowl are listed as high as US$56,000 on the secondary market, indicating that this year’s championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles could be the priciest in NFL history.
Key Facts
- On Gametime, the cheapest seats to the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans are available for $6,492 per ticket, including all taxes and fees—with the highest-priced tickets are going for $56,409 each.
- Historically, the average resale ticket to the Super Bowl has ranged between $4,000 and $6,000, according to Ticketmaster, an official NFL partner, which adds that ticket price “fluctuates drastically” based on the game’s location, the matchup, seat location, and date of purchase.
- Most Super Bowl tickets will gradually decline in price from two weeks out, reaching their lowest price on game day.
- In 2024, Gametime’s cheapest Super Bowl ticket declined from $9,400 two weeks out to $7,100 the day of the game—a 24% drop.
- Gametime recommends waiting to buy tickets on Feb. 5, four days out from the game, or on Feb. 9, game day, as ticket prices tend to bump up slightly in the two days in between.
Key Background
For comparison, right before last year’s Super Bowl between the Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, the least-expensive seats on Gametime were $8,764 each, with the top-priced seats $37,620 each. When the Chiefs and Eagles met in the Super Bowl two years ago, game-day tickets on Gametime were starting at $6,264 each with the top- priced tickets going for $33,042 each.
Surprising Fact
For seats on the 50-yard line, there appears to be a significant price gap depending on which side of the field the seat is located. On StubHub, premium middle-of-the-field tickets are running between $23,000 and $43,000 on the Eagles side and between $13,395 and $17,807 on the Chiefs side. SeatGeek lists tickets in the 50-yard-line section on the Chiefs side between $17,099 and $43,016. On the Eagles side, tickets in the comparable section start at $27,230 and go up to $35,190.
Big Number
74,295 seats. That’s the capacity of the Caesars Superdome for football games.
Tangent
Seventeen-time Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar is headlining the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show at Super Bowl LIX. This will be Kendrick’s second appearance during the Super Bowl Halftime Show, after previously appearing during the 2022 performance alongside Dr. Dre, Mary J Blige, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem.
Forbes Valuations
Last year, the Philadelphia Eagles were the eighth most valuable NFL team, with a net worth of $6.6 billion, according to the latest Forbes valuation. The Kansas City Chiefs ranked No. 24, with a valuation of $4.85 billion.
This article was originally published on forbes.com and all figures are in USD.
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