NFL Teams with the Most and Least Expensive Tickets (on the Resale Market)

With the NFL season coming up, football fans are making plans to see their favorite teams. Whether for a home game or a trip to a visiting city, fans will shell out hundreds (or more) for tickets on the secondary market. But what teams will cost the most, and which visiting teams will drive up prices in your home stadium?

To find out which teams command the highest prices, FinanceBuzz analyzed over 900,000 resale tickets sold during the 2023-2024 football season. Using data from SeatData.io, we determined which teams have the most and least expensive tickets — both at home and on the road.

Key findings

• The Green Bay Packers had the highest road ticket prices in the NFL. The average resale ticket price when the Packers visited was $397 last season — nearly $150 over the league average of $253.
• The Jacksonville Jaguars were the least expensive team to see on the road last year. The average resale ticket for a Jets road game costs just $119 — over $130 less than the league average of $253.
• When the Dallas Cowboys came to town, ticket prices rose 78% on average in each city they visited, the highest in the NFL.

Teams with the most and least expensive home tickets

Las Vegas Raiders fans pay a premium for home games. Last year, the average Raiders home ticket sold on the secondary market for $517. That’s more than double the league average ($253). This is a recurring theme for the Raiders, a team that also saw average ticket prices top the $500 mark in 2021-2022, the first year their new home of Allegiant Stadium was fully open to the public.

While a new stadium is one way to boost ticket prices, winning is another more timeless approach. The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles met in Super Bowl LVII and rode the success of those magical seasons to the second- and third-highest average ticket prices in the entire league.

The team with the fourth-highest ticket prices on the secondary market is another team that has experienced high levels of on-field success recently. The average cost for a San Francisco 49ers ticket was $359 last year, a season that saw the team fall just short of a title, falling to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl.

The Arizona Cardinals had the lowest average secondary market ticket prices in the NFL last season. Arizona was the only team with average ticket prices of less than $125, falling a dollar short of that mark.

Arizona was one of the worst teams in the league last year, finishing with a 4-13 record. The Washington Commanders, another team in the bottom ten when it comes to ticket prices, matched that win-loss record.

A number of teams on this list had middling seasons, finishing around .500. This can be frustrating for fans hoping their favorite team will either be good enough to contend for a title or bad enough to justify a full-scale rebuild. Middle-of-the-road play doesn’t give much hope for either of those outcomes.

A notable outlier on this list is the Baltimore Ravens, a team with home resale tickets that cost just $161 on average despite a 13-4 record, one of the best in the entire NFL. 

Teams with the most and least expensive road tickets

The Green Bay Packers are one of the most historic and storied franchises in the entire NFL, and as a result, they have fans across the country. They were also one of the most exciting young teams in the NFL last year, riding a torrid streak from first-year quarterback Jordan Love to an unexpected playoff run at the end of the year. All of those circumstances probably played roles in pushing the cost for Packer road game tickets to nearly $400 on average last year, the highest cost for any visiting team.

The team the Packers beat in the Wild Card Round, the Dallas Cowboys, call themselves “America’s Team,” and if ticket sales are any indication, then they may have a point. The average price for a Cowboys road game ticket was the highest of any team in the league at $396, less than a dollar behind the Packers. 

Road tickets for three other teams averaged at least $350 last year. Those teams were the Bills-Mafia-powered Buffalo Bills ($374), the two-time defending Super Bowl Champion Chiefs ($364), and the Philadelphia Eagles ($350).

The Jacksonville Jaguars were the visiting team that opposing fans least wanted to see, with an average road game ticket price of just $119. The Jags are joined in the top 10 by all three of their AFC South division rivals, as the Indianapolis Colts had the third-lowest road ticket prices ($131), the Houston Texans were the forth-lowest ($132), and the Tennessee Titans were sixth on the list ($147).

Good or bad, it appears that teams in the AFC South just didn’t excite opposing fans last year.

Teams with the biggest positive and negative impacts on road ticket prices

Of course, ticket prices alone do not tell the whole story. Apathetic or angry fans can drive down ticket prices for most opponents, regardless of how good they are. So which visiting teams will actually inflate prices in your home stadium?

When comparing ticket prices for each visiting team versus common opponents, it’s clear that fans of the biggest brands in football are willing to travel. The aforementioned “America’s Team” of the Dallas Cowboys raised ticket prices more than any other team when they come to visit, driving costs up 78% higher than other visiting teams when they come to town.

Other notoriously rabid fan bases — the Packers, Bills, and Steelers — caused ticket prices to rise around 30% or more above average when their teams visited NFL stadiums last year.

Conversely, two visiting teams caused ticket prices to drop more than 50% last year. When the Los Angeles Chargers visited, home stadiums saw a 56% drop in secondary ticket prices, with the New York Giants not far behind at 52%.

The New England Patriots (47%), Seattle Seahawks (42%), and Titans (42%) brought down average prices by at least 40% in cities they visited last year.

More ways to save and support your favorite team

Going to game day doesn’t have to break the bank. Here are some other ways you can save while getting in on the action:

• Travel wisely. Use one of the best travel credit cards if you’re going to see your team on the road. These credit cards offer high rewards rates on travel purchases such as hotel stays and airfare.
• Budget effectively. Manage your money in a way that allows you to spend on the tickets and games you really want to see. These budgeting hacks can help you focus your finances and get you to your savings goals.
• Buy experiences, not gear. Did you know you can redeem rewards points for events with certain credit cards? This guide to gifting experiences with credit card points outlines how to give (and get) experiences.

Methodology

FinanceBuzz used data from seatdata.io to analyze over 900,000 NFL tickets sold on StubHub for all regular season games played during the 2023-2024 season. Games played overseas were not included in this analysis. To find which road teams raised and dropped prices by the largest percentage, FinanceBuzz compared each team’s average road ticket cost to the average ticket cost for all other home games played by all teams that hosted them combined.