If you’re thinking about buying tickets to see a Buffalo Bills home game this season, be prepared to pay.
Tickets are expensive to see the Buffalo Bills play in their final season at Highmark Stadium – averaging over $250 a seat per game on the secondary market.
It’s a combination of the Bills continued success and again being a Super Bowl contender this season, and fans trying to get an opportunity to see the team play one last time in the 53-year-old stadium in Orchard Park.
There’s also fear among Bills fans that prices could even be higher for tickets at the new Bills stadium – if they can get them at all – with the new building being smaller, with about 12,000 fewer seats and most of those owned by season ticket holders who purchased a seat license.
Tickets for Bills home games have been getting more expensive on the secondary market over the past several seasons – it’s been that way for many NFL teams – but the 2025 regular season certainly takes the cake.
One of the more inexpensive tickets to the Bills’ nine home games this season is Thursday night’s contest against the Miami Dolphins. It’s one of only two Bills home games where the price on the secondary market for the cheapest seats is under $200.
Not even the late season games, likely to be played in cold weather, will be easy on the wallet for fans looking to buy seats for Bills home games on the secondary market.
“The prices are astronomically high, especially for at this point in the season,” said Nick Giammusso, president and CEO of Buffalo-based event ticket reseller VIPTix.
“It being the last season at Highmark Stadium definitely plays into the pricing. Everybody wants to get to the stadium for the last season one more time,” he said. “Fans are also excited about this team and ticket sales are all about momentum.”
The number of tickets for sale on the secondary market has been a lot lower this season because ticket holders have been holding onto their seats more than ever, said John Mikulec, co-founder of Gameday Hospitality, which hosts tailgates and game day experiences, as well as buying and selling tickets.
“There’s so much demand to see one more game at the stadium,” Mikulec said. “Everybody wants to say goodbye to the place they’ve been going to over the past 50-plus years. And the schedule was laid out and spaced out perfectly.”
The three home night games and the first of two 1 p.m. Sunday starts on the Bills schedule are in the early season. Then four of the five home games starting in November – when it will get colder – feature some high-profile matchups, including playing last season’s two Super Bowl teams.
“It’s like a perfect storm where there’s really not a bad game on the schedule,” Mikulec said. “That’s been driving things crazy and there’s just not many tickets out there.”
The lowest price was $300 for the team’s “Sunday Night Football” opener – a thrilling 41-40 win over the Baltimore Ravens.
Prices for that game dropped a bit leading up to the contest that week but then shot back up and stayed strong as game time approached. When buyers start to significantly enter the market, prices typically go up, Giammusso said.
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The cost for seats will get even heftier later in the season when the Bills meet the defending AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs. The cheapest price for that game, a 4:25 p.m. start Nov. 2, is about $360, according to online ticket resale broker Vivid Seats.
Buffalo’s second home game, on Thursday against Miami, is a bit of a different story. The lowest price is about $165 at VIPTix.com.
Fans may also be more apt to go to this game and upgrade their seating options. Club seats are selling for as low as $275, Giammusso said.
It’s pretty simple, according to Giammusso: Some fans are not wild about night games when they have work and go to school the next day.
Plus, the Bills’ longtime rival, Miami, is also off to a slow start at 0-2. Meanwhile, Buffalo has started 2-0.
As much as Bills fans wanted to be recognized for their success by getting prime-time games – a feeling that grew more intense during the team’s 17-year playoff drought – there is a contingent of fans who miss having mostly 1 p.m. Sunday home starts.
It’s one of the reasons nearly half the fans attending the season opener left the game by the time the Bills were down by 15 points with about five minutes to play, before Buffalo came from behind for the dramatic victory.
“By the time they get home from the game, it’s almost 1 or 2 in the morning,” Giammusso said. “That’s one of the main reasons so many fans left that Baltimore game in the fourth quarter.”
The lack of Sunday afternoon starts makes those few 1 p.m. games even more expensive to attend. The lowest price for when the Bills host the 0-2 Saints on Sept. 28 is $320, according to Vivid Seats. Buffalo’s only other 1 p.m. Sunday start, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Nov. 16, is going for a low price of $270.
Mikulec said the Saints game is another example of the lack of inventory making for expensive tickets. Since the schedule came out in May, fans have targeted that game to go to for family outings and corporate gatherings.
Giamusso does not expect the prices for either of those 1 p.m. home games to go down much.
“It’s a double-edged sword when the team is so successful and has a star quarterback like Josh Allen,” he said. “They play a lot of night games now because the NFL wants to feature them. It’s a good story and they built a good culture. So, the 1 p.m. games are few and far between.”
There’s not even a cold-weather game at the end of the season for under $100 on the secondary market, which is typically not the case during a season.
However, Giammusso said patient buyers may be rewarded. When the snow starts to fly, he gets more season ticket holder clients willing to sell their late-season games.
“That always seems to make them think twice about going and usually our phones start to ring with season ticket holders who want to sell,” Giammusso said.
There are some quality late-season home games, including a matchup with the AFC rival Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 7 and the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles on Dec. 28. The lowest prices are $236 for the Bengals game and $278 for the Eagles game, according to Vivid Seats.
The final home game of the season against the New York Jets on Jan. 4 – possibly the last in Highmark Stadium – is actually the cheapest game of the season on the secondary market at around $160 to get in, Giammusso said. He expects prices will wind up going up for that game, unless the weather gets bad.
Mikulec said final home games are usually the slowest sellers on the Bills schedule, especially since the team has been hosting a playoff opener the past five seasons after winning their division. But, in the end, there may be a lot of fans who decide they need to be there for the final regular season game at Highmark Stadium.
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