New Orleans Super Bowl ticket prices are soaring. How do they compare to past games?
As of Tuesday, 12 days before the game, tickets for Super Bowl Sunday were selling on major resell websites for between $4,500 and $11,000.
Minimum prices for seats in the Upper Bowl were going for $4,500 on Stubhub, $4,400 on Seat Geek and $5,500 on Ticketmaster.
The most expensive Lower Bowl tickets on Stubhub were listed at nearly $70,000. A suite-level ticket on the reseller was priced at over $480,000.
The cost for the star-studded event could seem shocking, but compared to recent years, prices are on par and even lower than the 2024 game, according to major ticket reseller Stubhub.
Stubhub reported this week that their average ticket prices for the 2025 game were running at $8,076, a 14% decrease from the same time period in 2024. The company said that while prices are down, current demand for tickets is the highest they've seen for a Chiefs Super Bowl, with sales so far up 10% compared to previous years.
Those prices are a far cry from what tickets cost the first time the city of New Orleans hosted a Super Bowl.
Tickets for Super Bowl IV, hosted in 1970 at Tulane Stadium and played by the Kansas City Chiefs and the Minnesota Vikings, cost $15. Adjusted for inflation using the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' calculator, that would be around $125 in today's market.
In-game action from Super Bowl IV at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. The game, played on Jan. 11, 1970, saw the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Minnesota Vikings 23-7 in what was the first Super Bowl to be played in New Orleans.
The Times-Picayune archiveSuper Bowl prices have continued to jump further in the last few decades. The last time the Super Bowl was hosted at the Dome in 2013, tickets cost an average of $2,253, according to USA Today reports.
Prices for the event are also soaring way above the Crescent City's most recent mega-event — Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in October.
While prices for the Swift concert were notoriously expensive on resale sites, prices for floor seats pale in comparison to the cost of Super Bowl tickets.
You could have purchased tickets to all three nights of the Eras Tour in October for the price of one Super Bowl LIX ticket.
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