To watch a debut match in NBA 2024/25 live you need to pay more than the equivalent of the UEFA Champions League. At least as far as the so-called is concerned get-in price, i.e. the minimum price entry to the event.
This is the central point of the analysis Football and Finance on the matches of the two sports competitions, considering the two initial rounds (in order to count at least one match in the home stadium for each of the participating teams).
Going into specifics, on average, the minimum price for the 30 franchises playing in the top basketball league is around 64 dollars (approximately 59 euro) while, as regards the most famous UEFA competition, the quota for the 36 participating teams stands at 45 euro.
An amount greater than +31% which demonstrates, on average, a higher-spending target of US basketball compared to European football, in line with the cost of living on the two continents.
A further explanatory factor for the greater “American” amount lies in the medium capacity of the franchises’ facilities (18,790 spectators), lower than that of the Champions League stadiums (average equal to 46,300 spectators, according to CF data reprocessing). For example, in the case of Milan e Inter who play at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium (75 thousand seats), the price of a ticket to the third tier is significantly lower than the minimum price of a home match of the Los Angeles Lakers (19 thousand seats).
Champions League debut ticket prices – The top 10 of the UEFA competition
Analyzing the top European football club competition, one immediately notices a limited variability with respect to the pricing policies of the clubs, with the ticket amounts for the first two rounds included in the range between 19 and 94 euros.
Note that UEFA has imposed a cap on away priceswhich for the Champions amounts to 60 euronot considered in this analysis due to the impossibility of accessing the rate for supporters of the home team.
For the first two days, which took place between 17 September and 2 October, the leaders were the Real Madridwith the reigning champions offering the cheapest ticket for sale to attend the inaugural match with the Stuttgart a 94 euro.
Second in the ranking is theArsenalwho debuted with a cartel match that saw her take on the Paris Saint-Germain so the most accessible coupons have been offered at 89 euro.
Another English team closes the top three,Aston Villawhich addressed the Bayern Monacowith a minimum outlay required from English fans of 84 eurofor a match that will remain in the history of the club Birmingham.
The table shows the top 10 of the matches of the first two rounds of the Champions League with get-in price highest:
Champions League debut ticket prices – The cheapest Italian teams and matches
Looking at the Italians, the Milan leads the ranking with i 59 euro required to watch the match with the Liverpoolfollowed by Juventus which established the lower limit in line with the European average a 45 euro for the meeting with the PSV Eindhoven.
Followed by Bolognawho in his debut match at the Dall’Ara with the Shakhtar he asked his fans 40 euro for the cheapest entry ticket, with theAtalanta which instead stopped at 34 for the great European night lived against theArsenethe. It closes surprisingly’Interwhich has set a minimum of 29 euro for the match against him Red Star.
Shifting the focus to the cheapest matches, the German teams stand out at the rear, adhering to the price control policy promoted by the government, which has set 19 euro the maximum cost of entry to the stadium without a seat.
At altitude 19 euro the match between was also offered Club Bruges e Borussia Dortmundwhile the race between Shakhtar Donetsk e Atalantahosted by the home stadium of Schalke 04 a Gelsenkirchen due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Tickets have in fact been made available at the price of 15 euroeffectively adhering to the guidelines in force in Germaniaalso to accommodate the home fans only in theory who must also bear the costs of the trip.
NBA debut ticket prices – The focus on American basketball
Moving on to the NBA, the analysis on minimum ticket prices focuses on first two rounds of the 2024/25 seasonin program between 22 and 27 October. For each amount, the conversion from dollars to euros was adopted, with an exchange rate of 0.91 to the detriment of the single currency of the Old Continent.
According to what was collected by Sportcastingi New York Knicks they lead all teams with an entry price of approx 250 euro for the match against the Indiana Pacers at Madison Square Garden, scheduled for October 25. The admission price for the Knicks-Pacers game is more expensive than 15% compared to the next most expensive match.
I Boston Celtics they rank in second place, with an entry price of 218 euro in their season opener against the Knicks at TD Garden on Oct. 22. After Boston, the four NBA teams based in California have the most expensive tickets, led by Los Angeles Clippers (180 euro), which will debut in their new €1.8 billion home, the Intuit Dome.
At the bottom of the ranking are Utah Jazz which have the lowest ticket prices in the NBA, with an admission price of just 10 euro for the first home game of the season. Here it is complete rankingwith the 30 games of the first two rounds of the NBA and the relative minimum ticket price:
- New York Knicks – Indiana Pacers: 250 euro
- Boston Celtics – New York Knicks: 218 euro
- Los Angeles Clippers – Phoenix Suns: 180 euro
- Los Angeles Lakers – Minnesota Timberwolves: 163 euro
- Golden State Warriors – LA Clippers: 115 euro
- Sacramento Kings – Minnesota Timberwolves: 86 euro
- Chicago Bulls – OKC Thunder: 65 euro
- Brooklyn Nets – Milwaukee Bucks: 57 euro
- Dallas Mavericks – San Antonio Spurs: 55 euro
- Washington Wizards – Boston Celtics: 50 euro
- Minnesota Timberwolves – Toronto Raptors: 49 euro
- Denver Nuggets – OKC Thunder: 48 euro
- Philadelphia 76ers – Milwaukee Bucks: 45 euro
- Miami Heat – Orlando Magic: 39 euro
- Toronto Raptors – Cleveland Cavaliers: 39 euro
- Indiana Pacers – Philadelphia 76ers: 30 euro
- Phoenix Suns – Dallas Mavericks: 30 euro
- San Antonio Spurs – Houston Rockets: 28 euro
- Portland Trail Blazers – Golden State Warriors: 27 euro
- Milwaukee Bucks – Chicago Bulls: 24 euro
- Orlando Magic – Brooklyn Nets: 24 euro
- Memphis Grizzlies – Orlando Magic: 23 euro
- Cleveland Cavaliers – Detroit Pistons: 21 euro
- Detroit Pistons – Indiana Pacers: 17 euro
- Atlanta Hawks – Brooklyn Nets: 14 euro
- Houston Rockets – Charlotte Hornets: 14 euro
- New Orleans Pelicans – Chicago Bulls: 13 euro
- Oklahoma City Thunder – Atlanta Hawks: 13 euro
- Charlotte Hornets – Miami Heat: 11 euro
- Utah Jazz – Memphis Grizzlies: 10 euro
