Super Bowl tickets are the most expensive regular-admission tickets in American sports. The league sets face values in tiers that start around a thousand dollars and run to several thousand, and almost nobody pays face value: the cheapest resale seats have typically run in the thousands in the final weeks, and the live prices on this page show where this season's game stands right now, all-in.
The reason is supply. The league hands most tickets to the two teams, the host club and its partners, and only a sliver ever reaches anything like a public sale. What follows is where the tickets go, what the price bands look like inside the stadium, when prices tend to move, and how to buy a seat you can trust.
What do Super Bowl tickets cost right now?
The numbers above are live listings on this site for the next Super Bowl. Every price is all-in: no service, booking or delivery fee, with sales tax shown before you pay in the states that charge it. The cheapest listing is the get-in price, almost always an upper-level seat in a corner or end zone. The typical price is the middle of the market; lower-level sideline and club seats sit well above it. Game tickets are listed separately from hotel and tailgate packages, so the get-in price is a ticket price, not a bundle.
Use those numbers as the yardstick for any other site: carry its listing to the final checkout screen and compare that total, not the sticker, against ours. Why ticket fees are so high explains what the other checkouts add.
Why are Super Bowl tickets so expensive?
Because almost none of them are for sale in the ordinary sense. The league allocates the stadium before the matchup is even known: roughly a third of the seats go to the two teams that reach the game, about five percent to the host club, a bit over a third is divided among the other 29 clubs, and the league keeps the rest for sponsors, partners and broadcast. Those blocks reach fans through season-ticket-holder lotteries, official hospitality packages and corporate hands, not through an on-sale you can set an alarm for.
Put a roughly 70,000-seat stadium against a national audience with that little primary supply, and the resale market becomes the market. Nearly every ticket a fan can actually buy is a resale ticket, priced by demand. That is also why the Super Bowl is the one game where "face value" is close to a theoretical number.
How much is face value?
The league prices the house in tiers. In recent years the lowest tier has been around a thousand dollars and the top tiers several thousand, before the hospitality packages that bundle a seat with parties and perks at far higher prices. Face value matters for one thing: it is the floor sellers work from. A seat that cost its original holder a thousand dollars will not list for five hundred unless the game is genuinely soft.
What have recent Super Bowls cost?
The pattern more than the exact figures is what helps. Reported get-in prices for recent games have usually sat in the thousands in the final week, with two things driving the spread between years: the matchup (two fan bases that travel in force push the whole market up) and the host city (a destination market with expensive hotels squeezes out the casual buyer). The 2024 game in Las Vegas set records on both counts; the 2025 game in New Orleans ran well below it.
When do Super Bowl prices move?
The market takes shape in the two weeks after the conference championships, once the matchup is known. Prices commonly peak in the first days after that, when both fan bases rush the listings at once. From there, a game with soft travel demand drifts down through the final week as sellers who flew in on speculation race to unload; a game with two big traveling fan bases holds or climbs into the weekend. Watching listing depth tells you which one you are in: hundreds of listings mean room to fall, a thinning list means the drop is not coming.
Buying before the matchup is set is usually cheaper, but you are betting on who plays. If the game matters more than the teams, that bet is often worth it. The best time to buy tickets covers how to read a market that is tightening versus one that is softening.
Which seats are cheapest, and what do you get?
The get-in price lives in the upper-level corners and end zones. Upper sideline seats cost more, lower-level end zones more again, and lower sideline and club seats sit at the top of the regular market, below only the suites and the hospitality packages. Unlike a regular-season game, there are no cheap sections: the difference between the get-in and a good sideline seat is thousands of dollars, so the seat notes and the row matter more here than anywhere. How to read a seating chart covers what a section number actually tells you.
How do you buy Super Bowl tickets safely?
The Super Bowl is the biggest scam target on the sports calendar, for the obvious reason: the prices are high enough that a fake "spare" can net a scammer thousands in one message. The rules are the ones that apply everywhere, only more so. Buy through a marketplace with secure checkout and a written buyer guarantee, pay by card, and never accept a screenshot as a ticket. Every order here carries the 100% Buyer Guarantee: valid tickets for the seats you paid for, delivered in time, or your money back.
Expect mobile delivery: Super Bowl tickets move through the league's ticketing app, and sellers often cannot transfer them until close to the game. That is normal for this event, not a warning sign. Load the tickets into your wallet app as soon as they arrive, before you are standing in the stadium crush. How mobile ticket delivery works has the details, and how to avoid ticket scams has the full red-flag list.
What else should you budget for?
The ticket is the largest line, not the only one. Host-city hotels price the week like a holiday, flights fill early, and stadium parking is sold separately (and scarce). Hospitality packages that bundle a seat with a pre-game party exist, and some appear on this site as their own listings; we keep them out of the ticket price statistics so the numbers above stay honest. If you are weighing a package against a plain seat plus your own plans, compare the all-in totals for the whole weekend, not just the ticket.