New York City FC is about to enter a new phase of Etihad Park ticket sales.
The club today shared more details about general, non-premium seating set to be available in the Queens soccer stadium, with a batch of 12,000 seats going on sale next week, available to the club's existing season-ticket holders.
These season tickets being released on Wednesday, November 18, begin at $625 plus tax and can be secured for a single year, so there isn't a blanket switch to season tickets requiring three-year commitments, something that was feared as word spread about different phases of the sales of the premium seats at Etihad Park.
The club also specifies that people can still opt into three, five, or ten-year ticket agreements if they choose, with the longer-term season-ticket deals including fixed, or capped, annual price increases.
Of the 12,000 seats on sale as part of this wave, over 7,000 season tickets are priced at or below $1,000, and the team stresses that, "Many areas of seating will feature flat or minimal price increases compared to their 2026 pricing."
NYCFC chose to focus on the Upper Endline seats at Etihad Park to make this point, with the starting price for certain of these seats in Queens set at $725 plus tax, while comparable seats cost $752 a pop during the 2026 season split between Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.
The club is also now giving its "Founding Members," people with season tickets since the team's inaugural 2015 season, a $100 discount on all season tickets they purchase for Etihad Park. For those who aren't Founding Members, you can still get a $50 season ticket discount by signing up for one of the three highest subscription tiers of Etihad Park+, the stadium-specific membership program the team announced earlier this year.
This will be the sixth phase of ticket sales at Etihad Park, with the first five encompassing the more expensive, more premium seats available in the 25,000-capacity stadium that's nearing completion, with NYCFC's opening match scheduled there for July 17, 2027.
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Eyebrows were consistently raised as people faced high price points and those three-year commitments when exploring tickets available during the first five phases of ticket sales, but now we wait to see how season-ticket holders find the shopping in Phase 6 as general seats become available.
Consistently, the team's CEO Brad Sims has insisted that the club was focused on selling its most expensive Etihad Park seats first so that it could keep ticket prices reasonable for those buying "general" seating. "We've been on record many times saying we're going to have affordable tickets, tickets that are going to work for every budget," Sims told the media in one of his roundtable interviews conducted earlier this summer.
One set of Etihad Park tickets not going on sale during this November phase: Those in the supporters' section. These general admission, safe-standing seats in Etihad Park's north stand won't be available to buy until "early 2027," though the team says they'll be priced at $675 plus tax for City Members, and $575 plus tax for Founding Members, not representing a big change from what those tickets cost before the soccer-specific stadium arrived. Early 2027 is also when the general public, meaning those without existing season tickets or those who haven't already placed season-ticket deposits, get their crack at ticket access.
Will every one of the team's season-ticket holders be happy with the Etihad Park tickets made available to them, and the prices they'll have to pay to secure them? Certainly not, but it does seem like the worst fears, fears of exorbitant price hikes for each and every seat sold in the new stadium, won't come to pass, at least based on the numbers floated around as this new phase of ticket sales begins.
