These are the cheapest tickets for the SuperBowl 2023

There are 63,400 seats at State Farm Stadium in Arizona, Phoenix, where the Super Bowl will take place on Sunday, but if you want one, you’ll have to pay thousands.

The Super Bowl is in a unique place in the hot-button conversation in the US entertainment industry about how much it costs to attend the events. The event, of course, is a hybrid of sports and music: a ticket to Sunday gets you a Rhianna show, as well as Philadelphia Eagles vs. Kansas City Chiefs. So it’s going to cost a lot.

But $5,400? That’s the ticket price at the start of Super Bowl week. And in the United States, there is a much greater platform and tolerance for scalping than in Europe, for example, as well as a broader acceptance that tickets are going to be expensive.

Prices usually fluctuate as the game gets closer, as sellers worry that their tickets won’t sell at all. By Friday morning, they were only marginally down, to around $4,500.

But interest in the Super Bowl is enormous, and tickets are only worth what people are willing to pay. VIP tickets through websites like OnLocation, for example, cost upwards of $14,000.

The highest-priced ticket was flat all week at $24,855. Season ticket holders for the Eagles and Chiefs who want to travel to the Super Bowl can enter one ticket and avoid resorting to scalping platforms. The two teams in general receive around 35 percent of the available tickets, that is, 17.5 percent each.

That works out to about 11,095 tickets for State Farm. Players typically get two tickets per person to the game, which is over 100 each for that part when it comes to a 53-player roster.

Five percent also goes to the host team, so the Arizona Cardinals have had about 3,170 tickets to sell.

It means that most fans – football fans in general and Eagles and Chiefs supporters alike – have to turn to the resale market if they really want to see their team in the biggest game of all.

On Monday, TickPick, which sells tickets without huge administrative fees, started with prices of $5,400. That was down to around $4,500 on Friday.

Tickets on Stubhub are $4,400 before they hit the till, where $1,541 in administrative fees are added, as well as a $5 service charge, meaning their most expensive ticket is just under $6,000.

“Cheaper than the average ticket of $6,801,” the website says.

Ticketmaster’s cheapest started at $4,700, but with fees added, a single ticket costs $5,784. That’s just over a tenth of the average salary in the United States, which in 2022 was $56,610.

Costs are often expected to fluctuate in the days ahead. Super Bowl prices will always go up and down to some degree, but it will definitely cost four figures to go to Sunday’s game.

And on resale sites, it’s those ‘admin fees’ that have become a point of contention. Or ‘junk fees,’ as President Biden calls them.

‘You shouldn’t have to pay an extra $50 to sit next to your child on the plane, pay a surprise ‘resort fee’ for a hotel stay, pay $200 to cancel your cable plan, or pay huge service fees to buy tickets. for concerts. It’s time for Congress to pass the Junk Fee Prevention Act,’ Biden tweeted on February 1.

Packages for the game for Chiefs and Eagles fans started at $5,525 Monday, on the On Location website. Offer includes pregame hospitality and open bar. On Monday they still had tickets available.

Both teams have offered more expensive packages through that platform that include three-day hotel stays for fans traveling to Arizona. It’s 2,300 miles away, stadium to stadium, while Chiefs fans have a 1,200-mile commute, so before you get to price, you can at least understand that there’s a market for them.

Ticket prices are far from just a sports issue. The entertainment industry across America has been split in two by the cost of tickets and the “junk fees” that add to the costs. No one, it seems, is safe from scrutiny and this week is the Super Bowl under the spotlight.

Last month, the Senate held discussions about consolidating the ticketing industry after Ticketmaster collapsed when Taylor Swift’s tour dates went on sale. It has intensified the conversation about the monopoly that Ticketmaster owner Live Nation Entertainment has in the market.

Last week, Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Backstreets’ fanzine closed after 43 years because ‘The Boss’ signed up for Ticketmaster’s unpopular dynamic pricing scheme, which sees prices rise based on demand.

Tickets for his first tour in six years went up to $5,000. Springsteen, 73, known for his loyalty to his Jersey blue-collar roots, was notably unapologetic.

If there is any complaint at checkout, we will refund your money. Springsteen, who Forbes estimates to be worth $650 million, told Rolling Stone. He played in the Super Bowl halftime show in 2009.

For 2023, the trajectory of ticket sales means they will likely sell for more than $10,000 as build-up for the biggest game of them all intensifies.

By the time the 2024 Super Bowl rolls around, it might be Biden’s Junk Fee Prevention Act to lower ticket prices.

Or maybe StubHub and Ticketmaster et al increase their share elsewhere to prevent it.

But as long as football remains as popular as it is, and will continue to be, working-class families will continue to be unable to participate in the greatest show in America.