Here’s What Being an Eagles Fan Will Cost You This Season

PHILADELPHIA, PA – OCTOBER 05: Philadelphia fans are shown having fun during the game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Denver Broncos on October 5th, 2025 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, PA. (Photo by Terence Lewis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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The average cost for a gallon of gas in Pennsylvania is $4.16, seven cents more than the national average. Folks are constantly complaining about the cost of groceries like ground beef, which is more than $7 per pound at my local Giant. The housing market is completely out of control. But let’s talk about a true necessity: Eagles games.

With the home opener three weeks away, when the Eagles will take on those loathsome Washington Commanders, who we actually lost to the last time we faced them, all of our nine regular-season home games are completely sold out as far as face-value tickets are concerned. Naturally, the ticket resale market is on fire.

According to an analysis by ticket resale company SeatPick, Eagles tickets in the month of September are averaging $523 each, 35 percent above the NFL average of $386 that month and fifth-highest in the league among the 48 NFL games happening that month. Our average for September is outranked by the Buffalo Bills ($726), Detroit Lions ($680), Chicago Bears ($626), and New England Patriots ($605).

If you want the cheap seats – meaning standing room only – for the season opener, you can pick up verified resale tickets through official Eagles ticketing partner Ticketmaster for $240. Sellers are looking for more than $1,000 per ticket for seats towards the front of the first level on the 50 yard line for that game.

The entry price for Eagles games in September actually goes up once you leave Philadelphia for our remaining two games that month, with nosebleeds starting at just under $300 for the Eagles vs. Titans game in Nashville on September 20th and – yikes! – $350 for the Eagles vs. Bears Monday Night Football game on September 28th at Soldier Field in Chicago. Outside of the worst seats in the house, SeatPick’s analysis shows that Eagles vs. Bears tickets are averaging $696 each. Fuhgeddaboudit!

But back to Philadelphia. The game with the highest price for entry-level tickets is, no, not the October 26th game against the Dallas Cowboys but the November 22nd matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers, where you’ll have to put up at least $255 for the privilege of standing up for three hours and hoping that we don’t tank after all that. If you’re looking for the cheapest option to see our Super Bowl champs play, that would be the Eagles vs. Colts game at the Linc on December 13th. Those tickets start at $116. Or, here’s a thought. If you just want to enjoy our pretty awesome football stadium and see the team play a thoroughly inconsequential game, $28 will get you an actual seat to our preseason game against the Bengals this Friday.

These resale prices can fluctuate wildly, up or down. Right about this time last year, standing-room-only tickets for the Eagles season opener, in which we beat Dallas 24-20, were going for $600 each. Two days before the game, on September 2nd, those same tickets had dropped in price to $385.

Whatever the prices wind up being, they will certainly be expensive. But longtime South Philly ticket reseller Shawn Wells, who has ten Eagles season tickets in his name and also buys tickets from other fans who might not want to deal with StubHub or Facebook Marketplace, says he’s had to drop prices over the last month. Why?

“It’s the LeBron effect,” Wells explains. “LeBron James is arguably the best player in the history of the sport, and everybody wants to see him play. There’s only so much money in a person’s pocket, and how much money are you going to spend on sports tickets in a single year? The Sixers tickets are sky high, and the Eagles tickets are dropping. That said, there was no better investment a person could make 30 years ago than buying Eagles season tickets.”

So that’s ticket prices. As for the rest of it…

If you’re driving to the Linc for an Eagles game, you can expect to pay $50 to park in a lot that it will take you way too long to get out of, which is precisely why you should take SEPTA or grab an Uber, Lyft, or taxi. (But seriously, take SEPTA.)

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – DECEMBER 03: A fan holds up a can of Bud Light beer in the stands during an NFL football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the San Francisco 49ers at Lincoln Financial Field on December 3, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Ryan Kang/Getty Images)

Then there are concessions. We’ve yet to hear from Aramark, which runs the food and drink program at the Linc, about any updates to the menu and pricing for this year. But suffice to say, you can spend a lot of money eating and drinking your way through the game, with some beers topping $20 and the price of a bucket of Chickie’s & Pete’s Crabfries setting you back close to $18. For fries. With some seasoning on them.

This would be a good time to remind you about the Linc’s policy on outside food and beverages for all Eagles games, which the venue understandably doesn’t go out of its way to publicize. Like the Phillies do at Citizens Bank Park, the Eagles allow fans to bring in their own food to the Linc, provided that it’s wrapped in clear plastic. As for drinks, you cannot bring in any beverages of any kind, but what you can bring in is a smaller, clear and empty plastic water bottle (the Linc mentions an Aquafina bottle as an example) that you can fill with water inside the stadium as opposed to spending $7 on a bottle of water that’s not even spring water.

Is there a way to make Eagles games any more affordable, other than through Saran Wrap’d Wawa Shortis and the LeBron James effect? Listen, the Eagles are the Eagles and Eagles fans are fiercely devoted. Demand is what it is. And we’d rather have the Eagles be the Eagles than, say, the Cleveland Browns, just so we could have cheaper tickets.

But that doesn’t mean that the entire fan experience at the Linc needs to feel like a gouge. It’s not like this at every sporting venue in the country. The Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, home to the Falcons, is famous for its “fans first” approach to pricing. The most expensive beer is only $11 and there’s a $2 menu that includes a hot dog, popcorn, and Super Pretzel as options. Those cheap eats are thanks to team owner Arthur Blank, who introduced the menu in 2017. The owner of the Phoenix Suns recently launched a similar fan-friendly program at his basketball arena in Arizona. So it clearly takes an owner to do this.

If anybody has Jeffrey Lurie’s ear, please put in a good word and point out that the Linc hot dogs are more than triple the price of those in Atlanta. We’re not asking for Dollar Dog Night. But give us something. We’re the best fans in the country. And we deserve it.