Prices of tickets for this weekend’s AFC Championship game between the Chiefs and Ravens have skyrocketed, with new data showing a surge of 118 percent to $764 for the cheapest seat to watch Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes face Lamar Jackson.
According to TickPick, Sunday’s showdown is the most expensive AFC title game on record with an average purchase price of $860 – surpassing the 2018 AFC title game between the Patriots and Jaguars by 14 percent ($754). It is also 75 percent more expensive than last season’s AFC Championship game between the Chiefs and Bengals ($489). Ticket prices started to noticeably increase on Monday morning, according to TicPick, with the cheapest tickets sold that day for $350. They then jumped 118. 29 percent to $764.
The current ‘get-in’ price for a single ticket is $698, the cheapest pair of tickets is now $1,492 – making this last playoff game before Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas the most expensive Ravens home game on record. The biggest purchase, so far, was for tickets in Section 201, Row 9 for $3,284 a ticket ($19,704 total). No added buyer fees on TickPick were included, these are all-in prices.
Sunday’s game in Baltimore will be the first time in six years the AFC Championship game will be decided somewhere other than Kansas City, where Mahomes and Co. have been so successful over the years, considering the team’s three wins in the last six years – since 2018 – at this stage of the playoffs. What’s more is, that this weekend’s AFC Championship game will be the first time the Chiefs hit the road for a conference title game since January 23, 1994, when Joe Montana was the quarterback and they lost 30-13 in Buffalo.
