If you’re trying to get into a Bills home game this season without already holding season tickets, the path is still open - but it’s narrow, expensive and getting thinner by the day.
The team has released about 1,000 individual game tickets for each regular-season home game at the new stadium, and most of what remains will be found on the expensive secondary market. For fans hoping to buy on the cheap, that era is basically over.
Those single-game seats are priced above what season ticket holders paid after buying a personal seat license. The Bills have also opened up a limited number of obstructed-view seats, which are being sold at lower prices than the main inventory.
The biggest-ticket item right now is the home opener against the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 7.
For that game, the Bills are selling seats in the standing-room areas on the first and third level concourses, and limited seats are available on the 100, 200 and 300 levels. Standing-room tickets are priced at $185, while first-level seats are around $1,000.
On the secondary market, some upper-level tickets have already climbed to more than $2,000 for the opener. Most season ticket holders in the 200s did not pay much more than $130 per game on average for their seats.
Petco Guelli, president of business operations for the Bills, said the demand is exactly what the team expected.
“My understanding is that there are few tickets, if any, remaining,” Guelli said.
The team was able to sell more than 33,000 personal seat licenses in its more than 60,000-seat stadium. The suite and loge inventory of 1,533 seats sold out, but the Bills did not require a PSL. The team also set aside 1,563 seats as “mandatory holds” for visiting teams, the NFL and Bills players’ families and staff, as sponsors for team partners.
For fans who can’t land a seat inside, the Bills are also starting to sell stadium tours, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the new building.
The team had about 1,800 seats marked for sale that were not sold with a PSL. After that, the organization decided to sell standing-room-only sections throughout the stadium around the first and third levels. Some of the available seats have also been bundled into all-inclusive tailgate packages through partnership with hospitality vendor Bullseye Event Group.
Tailgate tickets are $135 for adults and $50 for youth ages 7 to 15. The game-and-tailgate combo for the opener against the Ravens is priced at $585 each. The rest of the games range from $695 to $866 for the combo option.
Standing-room tickets are few, and far between, and have been gobbled up quickly by fans for most home games.
The only game with standing-room availability is the regular-season finale in January against the New York Jets. Most of those standing-room tickets are on the first level and cost around $145.
They’re available mostly in the corners and behind the end zones, but the closer-to-midfield spots are priced at more than $200. There are a few standing-room tickets on the 300 level for around $100.
Prices have also started to ease a bit on the secondary market.
Shortly after the NFL schedule was released in May, the least expensive ticket for the Bills’ home opener - a Thursday night primetime game - was priced at more than $400 for an upper-level seat. Now, on Ticketmaster, seats on the 200 level can be had for around $330 and resale for standing-room starts at about $300.
Among the available tickets still floating around, prices range from about $200 to $1,000. For example, first-level seats against the Los Angeles Chargers in September are going for more than $200 each; 100-level tickets for the Miami game in November are nearly $600 apiece; and 300-level seats for the Chicago Bears in December are more than $1,000 each.
The Bills may get some hundred tickets returned to them as part of the NFL’s mandatory holds, but those won’t be sold by the team on the primary market. They’ll be available mostly in corners and behind the end zones, with the closest seats to midfield pushing past $200.
For now, the message is clear: if you want to see the Bills in the new stadium this season, you’ll probably have to pay up.
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