Topline: Tickets for Steelers vs. Raiders Game in Las Vegas Hit Record High Prices for 2024 NFL Season

Topline

Tickets to an October game of the Pittsburgh Steelers at Las Vegas Raiders have become the most-expensive single NFL tickets of the year so far in the wake of the 2024 football season schedule release Wednesday night, topping a sale price of $600 per ticket and out-pricing admission for the Super-Bowl-Champion Kansas City Chiefs, Vivid Seats said Thursday morning.

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Key Facts

The Steelers-Raiders game on Oct. 13 is the most expensive game of the season as of 10:30 a.m. Thursday, according to online ticket marketplace Vivid Seats, with an average sale price of $601 per seat.

The next three most-expensive games all feature the Chiefs: The Oct. 20 game at the San Francisco 49ers had an average ticket price of $587 as of Thursday morning, followed by the NFL season opener (Baltimore Ravens at Chiefs) on Sept. 5 at $529 and the Chiefs at Raiders game on Oct. 27, for which tickets cost $484 on average.

The No. 5 most-expensive game is the Dallas Cowboys at 49ers on Oct. 27 (tickets cost $449 on average), followed by the Chief at Steelers on Christmas Day ($445), Cowboys at Steelers on Oct. 6 ($430) and Steelers at Broncos on Sept. 15 ($412).

The top-10 most expensive single games as of Thursday morning was rounded out by the Cleveland Browns at Raiders on Sept. 29 ($389) and the traditional Thanksgiving Day rivalry of the New York Giants and Cowboys (this year in Dallas) is the tenth most-expensive game with an average ticket price of $357.

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Key Background

Single-game tickets for the NFL released on Wednesday night after the league put out its full season schedule live on national television. Season tickets and some multi-game packages were available ahead of time, but Wednesday marked the first day fans could buy individual seats with a date and time locked in. Ticket prices for football games have been steadily rising for decades and, alongside a surge in peer-to-peer online resale, have largely become inaccessible to the average fan—the average NFL ticket cost $377 last year, USA Today reportedup from $235 in 2022. Sporting event ticket prices rose more than twice as fast as overall consumer prices from 1999 to 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Crucial Quote

Teams “don’t care if families can’t afford the seats as long as they can still hook them watching TV,” Victor Matheson, a sports economist at College of the Holy Cross, told CNN.

Surprising Fact

Even though ticket sales rise on average almost every year (including the price of resale tickets), not every team raises prices at the source each season. For the 2024 season, about a dozen of 32 teams announced they would be raising ticket prices, including the Baltimore RavensBuffalo BillsSan Francisco 49ersWashington Commanders and North Carolina Panthersthe worst team in the league. The Detroit Lions hiked prices the most this year, informing season ticket holders of a 30% increase on average with some tickets rising in cost by as much as 85%, according to Front Office Sports.

Forbes Valuation

All but one of the teams that announced ticket price hikes this year have billionaire owners. The Green Bay Packers is a publicly ownednot-for-profit team.

Top 10 Most-Expensive Nfl Tickets In 2024 (based On Vivid Seats’ Average Sold Price)

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