Report: Las Vegas Raiders 2020 season tickets already sold out

The flag of the Raiders is shown at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. /VCG

The Raiders moved from Oakland to Las Vegas in January and it seemed to be the correct decision, at least financially. According to The Athletic, the team has already sold out all of their tickets for the 2020 season.

The Raiders have been a traditionally popular team in the NFL, and their success in the 1980s and 90s made them one of the few teams to develop an international fanbase. Moving to Vegas has seemingly only brought them even more feverish fans.

Form L to R: Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints. All three will lead their teams to play against the Las Vegas Raiders in primetime games in the 2020 NFL season. /VCG

The cheapest Raiders ticket was 250 U.S. dollars and it was for the Week 16 game against the Miami Dolphins, who went 5-11 last season. In the other 15 weeks, the team will have four primetime games against Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints, Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.

By contrast, three teams, the Detroit Lions, the Houston Texans and the Washington Redskins, have no game scheduled for the primetime.

"I love it," said Raiders head coach Jon Gruden. "I mean, I just love it. You don't want to go anywhere else for primetime. I am surprised they're not all in prime time when we play in Vegas."

Construction continues at Allegiant Stadium, the future home of the Las Vegas Raiders in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 17, 2020. /VCG

The team will play for the first time at Allegiant Stadium which cost some 1.9 billion U.S. dollars in Week 2 on Monday night (September 21) against the Saints. The cheapest ticket for that game is 675 U.S. dollars. If you want to sit at the lower-level of the stadium, it will cost you at least 1,100 U.S. dollars.

Of course, since all the tickets have already sold, fans can only search on the secondary market. According to data from TicketIQ, the average price of Raiders tickets there is 1,098 U.S. dollars. By contrast, no other team reach 800 – the Denver Broncos and the Dallas Cowboys are the only two that surpass 600.

The Raiders average ticket price on the secondary market grew by 527 percent, the highest of the league. The next three biggest growths went to the New York Jets (153 percent), the Cincinnati Bengals (147 percent, after they selected Joe Burrow with the first pick in the draft) and the Buccaneers (135 percent, after they signed Brady).