Super Bowl Ticket Prices: What They Really Cost

A Super Bowl LXI seat listed between $5,098 and $5,259 on 28 August 2026, while published “average” prices for the same game ranged from $9,171 to $14,618.49 on the same day. Both sets of numbers are real. They measure different things, and no site selling you a ticket has much reason to explain the difference. Face value is far lower — $950 to $8,500 — but you almost certainly cannot buy at it.

All listing prices on this page were read on 28 August 2026 and are in US dollars. Where a figure includes booking fees, it says so. Super Bowl LXI is played on 14 February 2027 at SoFi Stadium, and neither finalist is known yet, so every current listing is speculative inventory.

How much does a Super Bowl LXI ticket cost right now?

The cheapest listed seat sat just above $5,000 across every major platform in late August 2026. The averages did not agree at all.

Platform	Cheapest listed	Average listed	Fees included
TicketData	$5,098	not published	flat price shown
Vivid Seats	$5,127	$9,171	yes
TickPick	$5,259	$14,618.49	yes, no added fees at checkout

The cheapest-seat figures agree within 3.2% of each other. The averages are 59% apart. That is not one of them being wrong. It is the word “average” doing four different jobs.

Why does every source quote a different average?

Four distinct measurements circulate under the same label, and almost nobody names which one they are using.

What is being measured	What it means	Why it differs
Get-in price	The single cheapest seat currently listed	Lowest figure. Moves hourly. One seat, often a restricted view
Average listed price	The mean of all open listings	Inflated by expensive premium inventory that never sells
Average transaction price	What buyers actually paid	Lower than listed average. Rarely published, because resellers hold the data
Face value	What the NFL charges on the ticket itself	Bears no relation to the market. Most fans never see it

Two modifiers matter as much as the measurement. The first is whether fees are included — a $5,000 ticket can settle above $5,900 once a platform’s service and delivery charges land, which is why TickPick’s all-in model and a fee-at-checkout model are not comparable. The second is the date sampled. A listed average taken before the conference championships is guesswork, because sellers are pricing inventory for a matchup nobody has yet.

This is where the numbers stop being merely inconsistent and start being wrong. TicketSmarter states the average 2025 Super Bowl ticket was $30,865.68, roughly four times what Forbes and Sports Illustrated reported for the same game. A Facebook page ranking on Google’s first page for Super Bowl 2027 prices gives a cheapest-seat range of “$8,600 to over $927,771.” Neither figure survives contact with the platform data.

A useful rule: treat a get-in price as a fact and an average as a claim until the source tells you which average it means, whether fees are in it, and when it was sampled.

What is the face value, and why can’t you buy at it?

Face value for Super Bowl LX ran from $950 to $8,500. The reason that number is almost irrelevant is that the NFL does not sell most Super Bowl tickets. It distributes them.

Recipient	Share of tickets
Each of the two competing teams	~17.5% each (~35% combined)
The 29 other NFL clubs	~1.2% each (~35% combined)
Host team	~5%
NFL and its partners	~25%

Roughly three-quarters of the stadium is allocated before a single member of the public is involved. Clubs pass their allotment to season-ticket holders, sponsors and staff, usually by internal lottery. Those tickets are bought at face value, and a meaningful share are then resold — which is how a $950 ticket becomes a $5,000 listing without anybody breaking a rule. More event access guides are collected in our tickets hub.

For all that, the Super Bowl is not the world’s largest audience — the World Cup final draws roughly twelve times as many viewers, covered in our guide to the most watched sporting event.

The teams themselves are the largest beneficiaries of this system, and the owners who control those allocations are the same names that appear on any list of the wealthiest people in American sport.

How does the NFL random drawing work, and has it closed for LXI?

The random drawing is the only route by which the NFL sells Super Bowl tickets directly to the public. Those selected may buy a maximum of two.

It is deliberately low-tech. Entries go by certified or registered mail — not online — and the entry window runs from roughly 1 February to 1 June in the year before the game. Winners are notified by post and then choose a section.

That timing carries a consequence nobody selling tickets is keen to spell out. For Super Bowl LXI on 14 February 2027, the drawing window ran through the first half of 2026 and has closed. If you did not enter by around 1 June 2026, the NFL’s own public route is no longer open to you for this game, and every remaining option is resale or official hospitality. The next open window will be the one for Super Bowl LXII, in the first half of 2027.

Every other major event runs on a comparable calendar — see our guide to sports ticket ballots. Confirm the current entry address and dates on NFL.com before posting anything — the mailing address has changed over the years and the league does not always announce it prominently.

Do Super Bowl ticket prices fall closer to the game?

Yes, in each of the last two years, and by a lot. This runs against the instinct that scarcity pushes prices up as kickoff approaches.

Super Bowl LX (8 February 2026, Levi’s Stadium). The get-in price was about $4,500 including fees on 1 February. By 7 February it was below $4,000 on most platforms and $3,435 on TickPick. Front Office Sports tracked a fall of nearly 30% from the moment the matchup was set.

Super Bowl LIX (February 2025, New Orleans). Seats listed as high as $56,000 early in game week. By 4 February, prices had fallen close to 60%. SeatGeek’s average settled at $9,257, down 18% year on year; StubHub’s at $7,299, down 16%.

Note those last two figures. Two platforms, the same game, the same week — $9,257 against $7,299, a 27% gap on identical inventory. It is the clearest possible illustration of why a single quoted average tells you very little.

The mechanism is straightforward. Once the finalists are known, fans of the 30 eliminated teams stop bidding, and brokers holding inventory they must clear before a worthless kickoff start cutting. If you are buying resale and can tolerate the risk of no seat at all, waiting has paid in both of the last two years. If you need certainty, you pay for it.

What are the cheapest Super Bowl tickets, and where do you find them?

The cheapest seat at any moment is the get-in price, and two things move it more than the seat itself: when you buy, and which platform you buy on.

Timing is covered above — in each of the last two years the get-in price fell into game week. The platform effect is less well known and can be larger than people expect, because service fees are not standardised.

Platform	Buyer fees	How the price is shown
TickPick	No buyer service fee	All-in from the start
SeatGeek	~10–30%, all-in pricing model	Fee included in the displayed price
StubHub	~15–30% added at checkout	Fee added at the end
Vivid Seats	reported to average ~31%	Fee added at the end

Two consequences follow. First, a listed price on a fee-at-checkout site is not comparable to a listed price on an all-in site — a $5,000 sticker can settle near $6,400 at the top of that fee range. Second, the “cheapest platform” changes listing by listing, because StubHub itself states there is no set fee percentage and that it varies with price, timing and demand.

At Super Bowl LX the spread was visible in the data. On 5 February 2026 the lowest single seat was $4,288 on TickPick, $4,447 on StubHub, $4,757 on SeatGeek and $4,840 on Ticketmaster — and by 7 February TickPick’s get-in had fallen to $3,435.

So the practical answer to “what are the cheapest Super Bowl tickets” is: an upper-deck seat, bought in the final few days, on an all-in-price platform, after comparing the same seat across at least three sites with fees showing.

What is the most expensive Super Bowl ticket?

The most expensive single Super Bowl ticket on record is $70,153, listed on SeatGeek for Super Bowl LIV in 2020 — the Chiefs against the 49ers at Hard Rock Stadium.

Recent games have not matched it, but the top of the market stays extraordinary. The priciest listing at Super Bowl LIX in 2025 passed $56,000, and at Super Bowl LX in 2026 the most expensive seat was around $30,000.

Suites are a different market again. The largest suite at SoFi Stadium reportedly sold for $2.2 million for Super Bowl LVI in 2022 — for one afternoon, in the same building that hosts Super Bowl LXI.

The gap between the two ends of the same stadium is the real story. At Super Bowl LX the cheapest seat was about $3,435 and the dearest about $30,000, a spread of nearly nine times for the same 60 minutes of football. Both are described as “a Super Bowl ticket.”

What have Super Bowl tickets cost over time?

A ticket to Super Bowl I in 1967 cost $12, about $106 in today’s money. The climb since is steeper than inflation by an enormous margin.

Milestone	Average ticket price
1967 (Super Bowl I)	$12 face value
Mid-1980s	first passed $40
1988	first passed $100
1995	~$200
2002	~$400
2009	~$1,000
2015	~$1,500
2018 (LII)	~$5,373
2023 (LVII)	~$8,907
2024 (LVIII)	~$8,600
2025 (LIX)	~$7,299–$9,257 depending on platform

A third caution, and it proves the point of this page: sources disagree on recent years too. NBC Sports reported the Super Bowl LVIII average at $9,804, up 69% on a $5,795 figure for 2023 — both well outside the numbers other outlets published for the same games. Always check which average, and whose.\n\nTwo further cautions. Early figures are face value; later ones are resale averages, and the two are not the same measurement — the switch happens as the secondary market becomes the way ordinary fans buy. And figures before 2018 come from secondary compilations rather than league data, with definitions that vary between sources. The shape of the curve is reliable; individual years should not be quoted to the dollar.

What the curve really tracks is the value of the broadcast around the ticket. A 30-second advertising slot in Super Bowl LX cost about $8 million, with premium placements reaching $10 million — and for LXI, Disney’s attempt to make $10 million the floor was refused by advertisers, as our guide to Super Bowl ad cost sets out. The seat is priced against an event whose economics have almost nothing to do with the 70,000 people in the building.

Super Bowl LXI: SoFi Stadium, 14 February 2027

SoFi hosts its second Super Bowl in five years, after Super Bowl LVI in February 2022.

One correction worth making, because it is repeated widely. Several sources describe SoFi as holding “just over 100,000 for major events like this.” A Super Bowl is not played in that configuration. SoFi’s standard capacity is 70,240, and the ~100,000 figure describes an expanded setup that opens the floor, adds standing areas and folds in the adjacent American Airlines Plaza — used for concerts, not for an NFL game with a full field and broadcast infrastructure. Super Bowl LVI at SoFi drew an official attendance of 70,048.

That distinction matters when you are comparing venues, and it is the same expandable-versus-standard trap that inflates half the stadium capacity lists online. Our guide to the largest NFL stadiums ranks every venue on standard configuration for exactly this reason.

For LXI specifically: On Location, the NFL’s official hospitality provider and the only official source for packages, opened a Los Angeles Rams partner presale on Monday 31 August 2026 and a general presale on Wednesday 2 September 2026, both at 10:00am ET. Its Priority Access and Access Guaranteed refundable deposit programmes had already sold out by late August.

What do official hospitality packages cost, and when are they worth it?

Official packages are a different market from a ticket, and comparing their price to a get-in price is a category error. A package bundles the seat with hotel nights, pregame hospitality, transfers and events across the weekend.

UK and Australian operators listed Super Bowl LXI travel packages from around £9,939 per person for four nights and US$11,950 per person twin-share in August 2026. Against a $5,100 seat plus Los Angeles hotels in Presidents’ Day week, the premium is smaller than it first appears — but you are buying a weekend, not a ticket.

The case for a package is guaranteed, verified inventory with a known seat location, which resale cannot promise months out. The case against is that you are locked in at a price set before anyone knows who is playing, in a market that has fallen in each of the last two years.

How we checked these numbers

Listing prices were read directly from TicketData, Vivid Seats and TickPick on 28 August 2026. Historical averages come from contemporaneous reporting by Forbes, CBS News, Sports Illustrated and Front Office Sports, cited in full below, with the platform named wherever an average is quoted. Allocation percentages are as reported by CBS Sports for a recent Super Bowl and shift slightly year to year.

Where sources conflict, we have published the range and the reason for it rather than picking a number. Where a claim could not be verified against a primary source — the current random-drawing mailing address in particular — we have said so and pointed you to the league.

Every price on this page carries the date it was checked, and every one of them will be wrong eventually. Prices for LXI will move sharply once the conference championships are decided in late January 2027, and we will re-read them then. For the money on the other side of the sport, see our breakdown of US Open prize money.

Review class: event-driven, annual. Recheck once the conference championships settle the LXI matchup in January 2027, and again after the game.