Why Super Bowl Ticket Prices Have Plummeted This Year

tori latham

Fri, 7 Feb 2025, 5:00 pm·2-min read

If you’re still looking to snag a ticket to the Super Bowl, now might be the time to strike.

Tickets to Sunday’s match-up between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles are much cheaper right now compared with those for last year’s game, the Athletic reported on Friday. While the 2024 Super Bowl was the most expensive ever, tickets to this year’s meeting on StubHub are down 62 percent compared with the same time last year—with the get-in price dropping from $6,900 before fees to $2,612.

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“First and foremost, the good news for fans is that the Superdome does have more seats than we saw last year in Las Vegas,” Adam Budelli, a spokesperson for StubHub, told the Athletic. “There is probably a little bit of Chiefs fatigue. That was also seen in some of the pricing in the AFC Championship Game compared to what we saw in Philadelphia for the NFC game.” (The Chiefs took on the San Francisco 49ers in last year’s Super Bowl.)

Across the board, the average ticket price on StubHub is $7,100, down 17 percent from last year, the Athletic noted. The lower cost of getting in to the big game may be contributing to increased ticket sales, as well: The amount of tickets sold on the resale site has jumped 12 percent from last year. As for the makeup of the crowd, it may be slightly in favor of the Eagles, with twice as many people coming from Pennsylvania than from Kansas and Missouri, Budelli said.

Ticket prices may be down, but that trend isn’t holding for other purchases surrounding the big game. Room prices for hotels in New Orleans, where the Super Bowl is taking place, are skyrocketing: The average price for a four-star hotel is $4,625 a night—the highest seen during the week of the Super Bowl, according to data from the Sports Management Research Institute cited by the Athletic. For last year’s game in Las Vegas, in comparison, accommodations had an average cost of $1,312.

Heading into Sunday, the Chiefs are hoping to become the first team in NFL history to win the Super Bowl three years in a row. Given the ticket-selling trends, though, it sounds like they may be facing a hostile crowd, with Philly fans making their way to NOLA in droves.

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