Costs Skyrocket to Attend NFL Games in 2024

Prices of pretty much everything have soared over the last few years, and the NFL is certainly no exception.

For the third year in a row, Bookies.com has calculated the cost of attending NFL games at each stadium. The cost calculates what a family of four can expect to pay: four tickets, parking, four hot dogs, two beers, and two sodas.

So, what can a family of four expect to pay for an NFL game in 2024?

It depends on where you live and which opponent you want to see.

However, on average, the cost for a family is $808.20. That’s a dramatic increase of 20% over last year.

Overall, costs rose from $536.77 in 2022 to over $800 in 2024, straining family wallets by 33.6%.

YOY NFL Cost Rankings

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While concessions hold relatively steady overall, ticket prices have surged to unimaginable heights. Its supply and demand are at their finest, and the demand is so high that NFL tickets on the secondary markets can stretch to $500 or more for the cheapest seats in the house.

Nine games in the 2024 NFL season has the cheapest available tickets at $400 or higher. Three of those are Detroit Lions home games. It’s not surprising, then, that the Lions supplanted the Las Vegas Raiders as the most expensive gameday experience in the land.

Over the course of the whole season, single Lions tickets averaged out to $383.21, a number that dwarfs the rest of the league as success-starved Detroit fans want in on the winning.

The Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles ranked Nos. 2 and 3 in overall cost.

Meanwhile, an entire family of four can enjoy a Jacksonville Jaguars home game for $371.79 – cheaper than one single ticket to a Lions game.

Tickets, of course, make up the vast majority of the cost of attending an NFL game. Getting tickets to some games is very easy, while others are far more difficult.

Finding the cheapest available ticket wasn’t always easy. Less than half provide easy-to-find price charts on their own sites, and nearly all teams provide a dynamic pricing system. For example, any team that has the Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, and Green Bay Packers on their home schedule has increased ticket prices, while any team with the Carolina Panthers or Tennessee Titans coming to town has lower.

For example, the cheapest seats for Carolina Panthers home games against the Chiefs and Cowboys cost $238 and $235, respectively. The average price for their six other games is $45.20.

Our totals averaged out the lowest widely available ticket cost for each home game over an entire season as of Aug. 31, 2024.

The Lions, Raiders, and Eagles all averaged over $300 for a single, cheapest-available ticket for their home games. The Saints and Jaguars each averaged under $100.

The themes in the nine most expensive games to enter the Gates, all of which cost at least $416.50 per docket, can be found. Three of the nine games are in Detroit (against the Bears, Packers, and Bills), two are in Las Vegas (vs. the Steelers and Chiefs), three feature the Cowboys on the road (at the Steelers, Eagles, and 49ers), and the last is a marquee showdown between the Eagles and Bengals in Cincy.

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Nearly all NFL games are havens for tailgating, and most have massive parking lots to accommodate grills, RVs, and huge pregame parties.

Bookies.com took the prices of those team-run lots and also incorporated nearby, non-stadium parking, averaging out all home games to one overall cost.

That pushed the Raiders far down the list due to the hundreds of parking options in Vegas. The 49ers, who were No. 2 in parking cost last year, moved up to No. 1 by a wide margin, over $25 above the rest of the league. The Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders round out the top three.

NFL teams are often secretive about concessions prices – unless they’re lowered. Bookies.com reached out to teams and used other local sources for our preseason price charts. Generally speaking, concessions prices didn’t see across-the-board increases, at least compared to tickets.

We took beer prices and converted them all to 16-ounce size. The cost still varies wildly for a couple of pops. By far, Washington and Las Vegas charge the most for suds. At Commanders games, two beers will set you back nearly $33.

You can get the same cup for less than half the cost at games in Detroit, Cincinnati, New England, Minnesota, and Cleveland.

Soda prices are far less volatile. Two 20-ounce sodas cost $17-19 in Carolina and Tampa Bay, the highest marks. You’ll pay a fraction of that for the same drink in Atlanta, Indianapolis, and Baltimore.

Nobody can compete with the Falcons for hot dog prices. Their $2 dogs are synonymous with games in Atlanta at this point. At some NFL stadiums, the cost is five times as high.

Once again, Las Vegas ranks No. 1 in cost, at a whopping $10 per dog. San Francisco isn’t much better at $9, with L.A. just 50 cents cheaper.