Football teams with the most expensive tickets
Tickets to a New York Giants 2013 home game are the most expensive in the NFL. The Chicago Bears and the New England Patriots have the second and third most expensive tickets.
While
teams sell tickets directly, there is a thriving secondary market of
tickets. Sources such as Stubhub, eBay and TicketNetwork.com SeatGeek,
and many others provide a marketplace for fans to buy and sell tickets.
The secondary market is more reflective of current demand.
Event ticket search engine SeatGeek provided 24/7 Wall St. with the current average secondary-market ticket prices
for each team for the 2013 NFL season. Based on the data, the average
2013 game for several teams costs more than $200. Home games for the New York Giants cost $292.36
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Most
of the teams with the most expensive tickets have been successful in
their recent seasons. Winning teams attract more people to the games and
drive up ticket prices. Teams that make this list, including the New England Patriots, the Green Bay Packers and the Baltimore Ravens, are playoff contenders nearly every year. Of the 10 most recent Super Bowl champions, only one is not on this list of teams with the most expensive tickets.
According to SeatGeek representative Will Flaherty, the other teams to make this list, like the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos,
have had recent surges in success and popularity, which have clearly
driven up prices. The average secondary-market ticket for a Seahawks
game in 2011 was $93.91. In 2012, the Seahawks displayed a dominant
defense and were led by exciting rookie quarterback Russell Wilson. The average ticket price for the 2013 Seahawk season is $220.64, more than double the 2011 season ticket price.
The cost of secondary-market tickets is determined also by their original, primary market price. This, explained Flaherty, can be affected by the costs of living in the different cities. New York,
Boston and Seattle, home to three of the most expensive teams, have
among the highest costs of living in the country. In comparison, cities
with the cheapest average football tickets — Cleveland, Jacksonville and St. Louis — have much lower costs of living.
Still,
cost of living is not everything, Flaherty noted. Green Bay is not a
particularly expensive market, but the waiting list for tickets is in
the hundreds of thousands. “The Packers have insatiable demand, with a
ticket waiting list of over 100,00 fans.” This more than makes up for
the less expensive market. At the same time, New York Jets games
are among the cheapest tickets. This is despite the fact that Jets home
games are held in MetLife stadium, the same stadium that the team with
the most expensive ticket, the New York Giants, also calls home.
In order to identify the NFL teams
with the most expensive tickets, event ticket search engine SeatGeek
provided 24/7 Wall St. with the current average secondary-market ticket
prices for each team for the 2013 NFL
season. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed team record and attendance data from
ESPN. We also reviewed city cost of living data as of the first quarter
of 2013 from the Council for Community and Economic Research. All ticket
prices listed are secondary-market ticket averages, provided by
SeatGeek.
These are the NFL teams with the most expensive tickets.
10. Dallas Cowboys
Avg. ticket price: $209.20
Stadium: AT&T Stadium
Super Bowls in last 10 years: 0
Avg. home attendance (2012): 88,531 (the highest)
Unlike
most of the teams with the most expensive tickets in 2013, the Cowboys’
record over the past few years has been relatively poor. The team has
only made it to the playoffs four times in the past 13 years, and most
of those were disappointing first round exits. Possibly because of that
performance, the team is the only one on this list of 10 with ticket
prices that have decreased since 2011, from $227.53 on average to
$209.20 for 2013. Still, the Cowboys have one of the most dedicated fan
bases in the NFL. The average home game since the new AT&T Stadium
was completed in 2009 has exceeded stadium capacity each year.Avg. ticket price: $209.20
Stadium: AT&T Stadium
Super Bowls in last 10 years: 0
Avg. home attendance (2012): 88,531 (the highest)
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9. Baltimore Ravens
Avg. ticket price: $220.30
Stadium: M&T Bank Stadium
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 1
Avg. home attendance (2012): 71,278 (9th highest)
It should not be too surprising that last year’s Super Bowl
champions have among the most expensive secondary-market tickets in
football this year. In fact, fans are paying even more than they did the
past two years. In 2011, a ticket to a Ravens football game cost about
$177. Since then, the average cost of home game tickets
has increased by 24.3%. M&T Bank Stadium, which was completed in
1998 for about $220 million, sells out on a regular basis, filling its
more than 70,000 seats.
8. Seattle Seahawks
Avg. ticket price: $220.64
Stadium: CenturyLink Field
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 0
Avg. home attendance (2012): 67,946 (17th highest)
Avg. ticket price: $220.64
Stadium: CenturyLink Field
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 0
Avg. home attendance (2012): 67,946 (17th highest)
7. Pittsburgh Steelers
Avg. ticket price: $221.06
Stadium: Heinz Field
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 2
Avg. home attendance (2012): 61,141 (25th highest)
One
of the most successful teams of the 2000s, the Steelers appeared in
three Super Bowls, winning two of them. Since 2003, the team has had a
record of .500 or better. However, the team has missed the playoffs in
the past two years. Perhaps in part because of this recent performance,
the average ticket price for the Steelers has only risen by 7.8% between
2011 and 2013, compared to the average NFL
team’s tickets increasing by more than 16%. The Steelers also averaged
in the bottom half of the NFL last year for meeting stadium capacity.
6. New Orleans SaintsAvg. ticket price: $225.30
Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 1
Avg. home attendance (2012): 72,888 (7th highest)
The
New Orleans Saints were embroiled in a controversy last year when the
NFL found the team operated a bounty system that paid defense players to
injure members of the opposing team. Head Coach Sean Payton and several
other staff members were banned from playing in the NFL last season.
That year, ticket prices
took a dip, falling from the seventh most expensive on average to the
11th most expensive. Even with the blow to their PR, the Saints are
still one of the most popular teams in football. And with Payton and the
rest of the 2010 Super Bowl winning staff back, 2013 tickets to games
at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome rose to average sixth highest in the NFL.
5. Denver Broncos
Avg. ticket price: $237.26
Stadium: Sports Authority Field
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 0
Avg. home attendance (2012): 76,632 (5th highest)
The
Denver Broncos have been one of the most popular teams in football for
years. The team’s quarterback is Peyton Manning, who, in his second
season with the team, set an NFL record of seven touchdowns in the
Denver home opener. According to SeatGeek estimates, three of the 10
most expensive tickets for the 2013 season will be for games against the
Broncos, although none of those will be at Sports Authority Field, the
team’s stadium. Broncos’ home game ticket prices have increased by more
than 50% since 2011, the third highest price spike in the NFL.Avg. ticket price: $237.26
Stadium: Sports Authority Field
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 0
Avg. home attendance (2012): 76,632 (5th highest)
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4. Green Bay Packers
Avg. ticket price: $245.40
Stadium: Lambeau Field
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 1
Avg. home attendance (2012): 70,507 (10th highest)
Avg. ticket price: $245.40
Stadium: Lambeau Field
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 1
Avg. home attendance (2012): 70,507 (10th highest)
Counting
pre-Super Bowl professional football, the Green Bay Packers have won
more world championships than any other NFL team, including four Super
Bowls. In 2008, Aaron Rodgers replaced long-time franchise quarterback Brett Favre. Some wondered if Rodgers could fill Favre’s shoes, but he responded with four straight seasons of 10 wins or more and a Super Bowl
win in 2011. In April, Rodgers signed a five-year, $110 million deal,
giving him the highest annual pay in the league. The average ticket
price for a Packers game has increased by about 10% since 2011, a small
increase compared with the other teams on this list.
3. New England Patriots
Avg. ticket price: $277.96
Stadium: Gillette Stadium
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 2
Avg. home attendance (2012): 68,755 (15th highest)
Avg. ticket price: $277.96
Stadium: Gillette Stadium
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 2
Avg. home attendance (2012): 68,755 (15th highest)
The
Patriots will play the Broncos at their Gillette Stadium at the end of
November for what will be the most expensive football game for fans to
attend this year, with the average secondary-market ticket going for
$390.45. The New England team’s home stadium, which it has consistently
filled since it was built in 2002, has a capacity of about 70,000. Under
quarterback Tom Brady and
highly respected coach Bill Belichick, the Patriots have played in the
Super Bowl five times since 2001. According to Forbes, the franchise is
worth about $1.8 billion, second most in the NFL.
2. Chicago BearsAvg. ticket price: $282.16
Stadium: Soldier Field
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 0
Avg. home attendance (2012): 62,329 (23rd highest)
Two of the 10 most expensive games scheduled this year for attendees include games of the Bears against Dallas and New York this fall. The average secondary-market ticket price for both games — to be played at the Bears’ home stadium Soldier Field — is more than $300. The stadium, which underwent extensive renovations in 2003, seats more than 60,000 people and regularly sells out. The Bears’ head coach since 2004, Lovie Smith, was fired at the end of December last year. He was replaced by Marc Trestman, who so far this season has shown competence, winning their first two games.
1. New York Giants
Avg. ticket price: $292.36
Stadium: MetLife Stadium
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 2
Avg. home attendance (2012): 80,495 (2nd highest)
Avg. ticket price: $292.36
Stadium: MetLife Stadium
Super Bowls in past 10 years: 2
Avg. home attendance (2012): 80,495 (2nd highest)
The New York Giants have had the most expensive home game tickets the past two years. The Giants have won four Super Bowls, two of them in the past six years with Eli Manning as
quarterback, when they defeated the Patriots in both 2008 and in 2012.
The new MetLife Stadium, located in New Jersey and the home of both the
Giants and the Jets, routinely meets its 80,000 person capacity in
ticket sales. The NFL scheduled Super Bowl
XLVIII to be played in February, 2014, at MetLife Stadium. Tickets for
last Sunday’s game against the Broncos cost $378.02 on average, the
second most expensive game for fans to attend that is scheduled this
year.
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