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If you’re a sports fan, which you have found our site, you no doubt are, are fully aware of how much ticket costs have climbed each year. The complex correlation between athlete salary costs, the financial realities owners face in running a team, and the state of the overall U.S. economy are all entangled, with fans caught in the crossfire.
Supporting your team and checking off bucket lists, big events have to be weighed based on their financial burden. Online gaming site VegasInsider recently did a study of just how expensive the average ticket cost was for fans for the 15 most popular sporting events in the United States for 2024.
Coming in at by far the most expensive as, not surprisingly, the king of pro sports in the U.S., the NFL Super Bowl LVII, which was a classic between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers. The biggest sporting event in the country was exponentially the priciest ticket to get for fans, with the average single ticket costing $8,600.
Coming in second was Formula 1’s Las Vegas Grand Prix at $2,167, followed by The Masters Golf Tournament at $2,111. The Kentucky Derby, at $1,774, and UFC 300, at $1,567, rounded out the top five most expensive sporting events.
Two of the more surprising events found on the list were WWE’s equivalent to the Super Bowl, Wrestlemania XL, which was held this year at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, and the ICC T20 Men’s World Cup cricket event held at venues in Florida, New York, and Texas. The ticket cost for one of cricket’s largest annual events was $675, while Wrestlemania tickets set fans back an average of $639 – with the latter event spanning two days, that added up to quite a chunk of change.
Other big-ticket events this year were the NCAA’s Men’s Basketball Finals, held this year in Phoenix, which set fans back an average of $622 per ticket, and the upcoming boxing exhibition between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, which is priced at $717 per ticket.
Rounding out the rest of the list were auto racing’s Miami Grand Prix ($1,110) and U.S. Grand Prix, held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas ($820), MMA’s UFC 306 ($1,083), and the Copa America Final, which saw Lionel Messi return to form for the Argentinian national team ($750). Lastly, the two U.S. Open events for men’s tennis and men’s golf were $425 and $250, respectively.
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