Tickets for Northwestern’s 2024 football season, including two anticipated games at Wrigley Field, are now on sale.
Sales started at 9:30 Friday morning with low ticket warnings for each home game by the late afternoon. Home games this season will cost attendees anywhere from $93 to $703 depending on the game and seats.
As of 4:30 p.m. Friday, $93 tickets were available for games against Miami (Ohio), Duke and Eastern Illinois, with the lowest available price jumping to $133 for the Indiana and Wisconsin games.
Tickets for the Wrigley games — Nov. 16 against Ohio State and Nov. 30 against Illinois — will cost a bit more. Prices for the Ohio State game start at $125 and extend to $550 for club seats and $650 for a seat in the Makers Mark Barrel Room suite. Illinois tickets range from $60 to $445.
The Wrigley game tickets are on sale at www.mlb.com/cubs/tickets/events/football.
Home games for the 2024 and 2025 seasons will be played at a temporary venue erected at the Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium on the university’s Evanston campus. Set on the lakeside, the temporary stadium, which typically serves as the home for the Wildcats soccer and lacrosse teams, can seat up to 15,000.
Fans without tickets still can attend the university-sanctioned Lakeside Tailgate. For a $25 general admission ticket, attendees can watch the Wildcats and other college football games on a video board set just south of the temporary stadium. Other amenities will include lawn games such as corn hole and giant Jenga, DJ sets and ticket giveaways alongside food and beverage stands.
Larger rented spaces are also available at the tailgates for bigger groups.
The temporary stadium will be used until the 2026 season, when Northwestern expects to unveil the reconstructed Ryan Field, replacing the previously 98-year-old stadium.
The new Ryan Field also will host up to six maximum-capacity concerts a year, a decision that caused controversy in one of Chicago’s closest suburbs, on top of a variety of community-focused events. An ongoing lawsuit filed against the city by the Most Livable City Association regarding the narrow 4-3 zoning vote that allows for the concerts is making its way through the courts.
The $800 million Ryan Field rebuild is being funded by a $480 million donation from the Ryan family, who in 2021 made the largest single donation in university history. The donation was part of Northwestern’s “We Will” campaign that netted more than $6 billion in donations from more than 170,000 donors.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new stadium on June 24.
