Want to attend the 49ers’ first playoff game at Levi’s Stadium? Be ready to pay big
It’s the hottest ticket since the “Who’s got it better than us?” days of Jim Harbaugh and Colin Kaepernick, when the quarterback wore No. 7 and the 49ers stood at the doorstep of a Super Bowl title.
The names have changed, but the stakes are nearly as high. Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020 at 1:35 p.m., Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara: NFC Divisional Playoff.
Where will you be? Tickets for the NFC West champion and conference No. 1 seed 49ers’ first playoff game at Levi’s Stadium are on sale and going fast.
Super Bowl 50 was played at Levi’s Stadium in 2016. Clemson won the College Football Playoff national championship game at the Santa Clara venue in January. But never has Levi’s played host to a 49ers playoff game. The team hasn’t had a playoff game home or away since Jan. 19, 2014, when San Francisco fell 23-17 at Candlestick Park in the NFC Conference Championship game to the Seattle Seahawks — the team the 49ers beat Sunday to clinch the division title and NFC’s top seed.
Will the 49ers face the 10-6 Minnesota Vikings out of the NFC North; the NFC East champion Philadelphia Eagles (9-7), or a Levi’s Stadium rematch of Sunday’s thriller at CenturyLink Field with the 11-5 archrival Seahawks?
The Faithful don’t care.
“Demand is high,” Roger Hacker, the 49ers’ director of corporate communications, said Monday as Levi’s Stadium prepared for the RedBox Bowl in which the Cal Golden Bears beat the Illinois Fighting Illini 35-20.
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Divisional Playoff tickets are available to the public at www.49ers.com. How-to tutorials to access and manage tickets in the 49ers official team app and in Account Manager are also on the team’s tickets page.
By Monday, fans in 34 states and nine countries had purchased playoff tickets from online broker StubHub. California led the way with 78 percent of all tickets sold, officials at the site told The Sacramento Bee. Walk-up Redbox Bowl traffic was also sure to scoop up its share of stubs, the 49ers’ Hacker said.
StubHub’s “Get-in” price, the site’s lowest priced tickets, starts at $255, its representatives said. StubHub customers spent $422 on average to grab a seat for the game.
StubHub had 9,000 tickets available as of 1 p.m. Monday.
A quick scan of the 49ers’ website shows just how high demand is — the best bet for single tickets is in the stadium’s 200 section in either end zone out to the 10-yard-line on the visitors’ side of the field. Cost: $350 each.
Want to beat the traffic? Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor stops at the Santa Clara/Great America station, a five-minute walk to the stadium entrance. Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s light rail service also directly serves the stadium and rolls out additional trains and buses for 49ers games and other special events, spokeswoman Brandi Childress said.
Special event service schedules will be available four days before the playoff matchup, Childress said.
Want to bring a friend? Bring your wallet and act fast. Prices range from $900 to $1,250 a piece for seats in the home-side United Club and Yahoo Fantasy Football Lounge on the 100 level; the Foxxcon Industrial Internet Club behind the visitors’ bench; and the 200-level Levi’s 501 Club.
But 49ers fans are used to fighting for seats. San Francisco drew more than 73,000 fans a contest at 68,500-seat Levi’s Stadium in 2019, powered by its long unbeaten string to start the season and Pro Bowl-caliber seasons from new stars rookie defensive end Nick Bosa, tight end George Kittle and quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo.
Expect to see a lot of Nos. 10, 85 and 97 on Jan. 11 — and not just on the turf.
The three jerseys were among the National Football League’s top sellers in November. Garoppolo sat at No. 4, behind three other quarterbacks: the Kansas City Chiefs’ Partrick Mahomes, the New England Patriots’ Tom Brady, a lock for the Hall of Fame; and the Baltimore Ravens’ Lamar Jackson, the leading candidate for this season’s MVP. Kittle’s jersey was No. 8 on the list and Bosa’s was 13th.
This story was originally published December 30, 2019 at 5:10 PM.
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