NFL Sunday Ticket is a must-have for any NFL fan. This streaming service lets you watch every single regular-season Sunday afternoon NFL livestream, something no other service can offer. If you're a 49ers fan living in Atlanta, like me, it can be a lifesaver.
YouTube TV is once again the home of NFL Sunday Ticket for the 2025-2026 NFL season. You don't need YouTube TV to sign up, though — you can also sign up directly through YouTube Primetime Channels.
There are a few limitations to the service, though. You only get out-of-market games — Sunday Ticket won't let me watch the Falcons in Atlanta — and you only get games with a 1 p.m. ET or 4(ish) p.m. ET kickoff. However, in a shift from previous years, the NFL is letting you stream out-of-market preseason games via Sunday Ticket. Typically, this service is strictly reserved for the regular season.
Malcolm is an editor on the Tom's Guide streaming team, covering the latest news in streaming services since 2023.
NFL Sunday Ticket: Availability
NFL Sunday Ticket is available only via YouTube or YouTube TV. It's available to residents of the U.S., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
If you're outside these areas but want to access your Sunday Ticket subscription, we recommend using NordVPN.
NFL Sunday Ticket can be watched on unlimited (simultaneous) streams in your home and two additional streams on the go. You can also share your subscription with up to five other members in your Google family group, giving them access to their own account that doesn't affect your streaming restrictions.
NFL Sunday Ticket TV: Pricing
Good news! If you don't have YouTube TV, you don't need it to get Sunday Ticket. Even better news, YouTube just cut prices across the board (as of Oct. 30) on all Sunday Ticket plans.
For a standalone, season-long NFL Sunday Ticket TV subscription, new subscribers can sign up through YouTube Primetime Channels for $150, or four monthly payments of $37.50. If you want to add NFL RedZone, the price goes up to a one-time payment of $170 or four monthly payments of $42.50.
If you're a returning user, it's a bit more expensive. For a full-season plan, you'll need to shell out $264, or you can pay $66 a month for four months. Adding RedZone brings the price up to $284 for the rest of the season or $71 a month for four months. Just be warned: Residents of Colorado, Maine, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin cannot opt in for monthly payments.
If you're currently subscribed to YouTube TV or planning to make the switch to YouTube's cable TV alternative, you'll want to sign up for Sunday Ticket using your YouTube TV account instead. New subscribers to Sunday Ticket via YouTube TV for $150, or four monthly payments of $37.50. If you're a returning subscriber, the price goes up to $204, or four monthly payments of $51.
Unfortunately, you can no longer add access to NFL RedZone through Sunday Ticket if you have YouTube TV. However, you can still add it separately to your YouTube TV subscription via the Sports Plus package, which costs an additional $10.99 per month. Practically, this isn't a negative in terms of value, but it does add another step for users.
Previously, NFL Sunday Ticket had only been available as a season-long subscription. But this September, YouTube will be introducing a month-to-month option as well.
If you're a new user and you go with the month-to-month option, it'll cost $85 a month for Sunday Ticket as a YouTube TV add-on or through YouTube Primetime Channels. If you get your month-to-month subscription through Primetime Channels, you can add NFL RedZone for an additional $10. If you're a returning user and you go with the month-to-month option, it'll cost $115 a month for Sunday Ticket as a YouTube TV add-on or $145 a month to get Sunday Ticket through YouTube Primetime Channels.
| Header Cell - Column 0 | NFL Sunday Ticket | NFL Sunday Ticket with NFL RedZone | NFL RedZone with Sports Plus |
|---|---|---|---|
YouTube Primetime Channels (season-long) | New users: $150 ($37.50 a month); Returning users: $264 ($66 a month) | New users: $170 ($37.50 a month); Returning users: $284 ($71 a month) | N/A |
YouTube Primetime Channels (month-to-month) | New users: $85; Returning users: $145 | New users: $95; Returning users: $155 | N/A |
YouTube TV (season-long) | New users: $150 ($37.50 a month); Returning users: $204 ($51 a month) | N/A | $10.99 a month* |
YouTube TV (month-to-month) | New users: $85; Returning users: $115 | N/A | $10.99 a month* |
Student plan | $119 | $129 | N/A |
*does not include cost of YouTube TV subscription
There's one thing you must be aware of, though. You can't cancel your NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for a refund. You are also automatically enrolled in automatic renewal.
Lucky for you, we have a guide on how to cancel your automatic renewal so you're not on the hook for next season unless you want to be.
If you've seen horror stories about Sunday Ticket being hundreds of dollars more on Apple devices ... unfortunately, those rumors are accurate.
Our advice? Don't buy NFL Sunday Ticket on your iPhone or any Apple device. Just buy it through a web browser and you'll still be able to enjoy it anywhere Sunday Ticket is supported, without spending as much as $300 extra.
Also, this pricing does not reflect any changes that may be caused by the reported acquisition of the NFL Network and NFL RedZone by ESPN, as that deal and its details have not officially been made public yet.
NFL Sunday Ticket: Free trial
NFL Sunday Ticket is a season-long subscription, with your payment covering the entire NFL regular season. Currently, there is no NFL Sunday Ticket free trial.
NFL Sunday Ticket: Current discounts
At the moment, there are a few discounts available for NFL Sunday Ticket.
First up, there's a new member discount available this year. If you've never subscribed to NFL Sunday Ticket before, you can save some serious cash this season.
New subscribers can get a season-long subscription for $150 ($37.50 a month for four months) or $170 with NFL RedZone ($42.50 a month for four months).
Or, you can go with a month-to-month plan and spend $85 a month for Sunday Ticket. It's an additional $10 for RedZone.
That pricing is the same for YouTube TV or YouTube Primetime Channels, so there's no incentive for getting YouTube TV if you're a new user.
Returning users, don't fret. While YouTube isn't advertising a discount for returning NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers, multiple users are reporting receiving email offers ranging from $48-$96 off on their subscription if they come back for the upcoming season (h/t 9 to 5 Google).
If you have YouTube Premium, there's also a discount for you. Premium subscribers can go to a special offer page and sign up for a season-long NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for just $192.
Need new home internet? Verizon is offering free NFL Sunday Ticket to new 5G Home Ultimate subscribers. The service is currently on sale for just $60 a month, with new subscribers eligible for either a free Sunday Ticket subscription or a $400 Samsung credit at Best Buy.
Another promotion is from the online sportsbook, DraftKings. It's offering $200 NFL Sunday Ticket as a bonus if you place your first bet of $5 or more (Tom's Guide does not endorse sports gambling, and reminds you that gambling is done at your own risk).
Even if you somehow can't get a discount on NFL Sunday Ticket, you might be able to get a discount on YouTube TV. Right now, you can get YouTube TV for $72.99 a month for your first three months.
Finally, there's a discount for military and veterans, first responders, nurses, and teachers via ID.me shop. Eligible users will be able to sign up for NFL Sunday Ticket for a season-long price of $128 (or $138 with NFL RedZone).
While not a discount, Sunday Ticket member benefits are perks that save you money with your NFL Sunday Ticket subscription. The discounts available to subscribers through this program include a three-month trial of Uber One, a three-month trial of YouTube Premium and more.
NFL Sunday Ticket: Student pricing
Are you a college-bound NFL junkie on a budget?
Good news! YouTube offers an NFL Sunday Ticket student discount.
To be eligible for the student plan, you just need to be 18 years of age or older, be enrolled as a student at an accredited college or university and be able to be verified through SheerID, the verification tool that YouTube is using for the student discount.
Students eligible for the student discount can buy an NFL Sunday Ticket subscription from YouTube Primetime Channels. Students can not sign up for Sunday Ticket via YouTube TV and are limited to one device and one concurrent stream at a time.
Currently, you can sign up for a Sunday Ticket student discount through YouTube for $119. For an additional $10, you can add NFL RedZone.
Is the YouTube TV vs. Disney contract dispute impacting NFL Sunday Ticket?
Some of you might already be YouTube TV users, or are considering the live TV streaming service because of the discount it gives you on NFL Sunday Ticket. Normally, it'd be a no-brainer to go with YouTube TV and take the discount. But at the moment, the cable TV alternative is in a contract dispute with Disney. That means YouTube TV no longer has ESPN or ABC, both of which air NFL games.
So with YouTube TV now missing out (at least temporarily) on two of the networks that air NFL games, you might reasonably be wondering how that impacts your NFL Sunday Ticket subscription.
First, here's the good news. All NFL Sunday Ticket games are on Fox or CBS. So, if you already have Sunday Ticket or are considering getting it, you don't have to worry about missing out on any Sunday Ticket games or not getting what you paid for.
However, if you cancel YouTube TV and you purchased Sunday Ticket through YouTube TV, a technical glitch may cause you to temporarily lose access. If that happens, YouTube has said you should contact customer support, and they will help you restore access to Sunday Ticket games.
NFL Sunday Ticket: Where to watch
Whether you just dropped cable or are about to move into a new dorm room, you can stream Sunday Ticket on just about any device that connects to Wi-Fi. NFL Sunday Ticket works on both the YouTube and YouTube TV mobile apps as well as on web browsers.
For those subscribing through YouTube Primetime Channels, you'll use the YouTube app and web platform to watch NFL Sunday Ticket. If you subscribe through YouTube TV, you'll use that platform and its apps instead. However, real-time NFL highlights will be available to everyone through the YouTube Shorts tab, which will allow Sunday Ticket subscribers to go from highlights to live games with just a tap or click.
The list of eligible devices includes iOS and Android devices, Windows PCs, streaming boxes such as Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku and Android TV devices as well as game consoles such as various Xbox One consoles (I use an Xbox One S), PlayStation 5. Smart TVs with the YouTube or YouTube TV app will work as well.
NFL Sunday Ticket: Features
Aside from giving you access to every Sunday out-of-market game (excluding night games), there are a few other perks to getting NFL Sunday Ticket that YouTube has announced.
First, multiview provides users with multiple options to watch up to four games at once. On YouTube TV, it will even offer options that combine available local games with your Sunday Ticket out-of-market games so you don't have to abandon your local team to enjoy your extra games.
YouTube even offers multiview options that have RedZone as one of the up to four games. That means you could be watching your local team, two other games and RedZone — all at once. Personally, I opt for picking a marquee game (typically my Niners) and pairing it with RedZone for the ultimate Sunday Ticket experience.
As of the 2025-2026 NFL season, you can even build your own multiviews, rather than having to select from a menu of curated options. This was one of many Sunday Ticket upgrades YouTube announced this year, including a new spoiler mode, an upgraded user interface and new Broadcast Delay settings.
There's also a live chat feature. Introduced a few years ago, this feature allows fans to interact as they watch the games in a way they couldn't before with DirecTV. YouTube says it also plans to integrate more interactive features like NFL Shop support and more.
Fantasy View also got an upgrade this season. This feature allows you to sync your NFL.com and Yahoo Fantasy Football accounts with YouTube TV so you can check your scores while watching the game.
When watching Sunday Ticket, you get a couple of options for watching highlights. First is catching up with key plays, which allows you to catch up to a game already in progress through a playlist of all the big highlights. I use this feature when watching sports on YouTube TV all the time, and it's one of my favorite ways to watch games when I'm busy.
Then there are real-time highlights through YouTube Shorts. There are real-time highlights for every NFL game this season on the Shorts tab, and if you click the red “Live” ring on the NFL channel avatar in the Shorts player, it will take you to the game live — provided you have NFL Sunday Ticket.
Finally, if you have a Google TV, Google is giving your viewing experience an upgrade. NFL Sunday Ticket will integrate into your homescreen, showing you games and highlights right as you open up the user interface. And if you have YouTube TV, Google TV will even integrate the games into your Live tab so they're easy to find while browsing what's on TV.
- Read more: I spent the weekend watching NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV — this feature makes it worth it
NFL Sunday Ticket: Does it cover the playoffs?
Unfortunately, no. NFL Sunday Ticket only covers regular season, Sunday afternoon games that are out of your market.
If you want playoff games, you can subscribe to a streaming service such as Sling TV or YouTube TV, both of which give you access to NFL Playoff channels such as FOX, NBC, ABC and CBS. You can also pick up an HD antenna to get those same channels over the air.
NFL Sunday Ticket Week 10 schedule
1 p.m. — Giants vs. Bears (FOX, Fox One)
1 p.m. — Bills vs. Dolphins (CBS, Paramount Plus)
1 p.m. — Ravens vs. Vikings (FOX, Fox One)
1 p.m. — Browns vs. Jets (CBS, Paramount Plus)
1 p.m. — Patriots vs. Buccaneeers (CBS, Paramount Plus)
1 p.m. — Saints vs. Panthers (FOX, Fox One)
1 p.m. — Jaguars vs. Texans (CBS, Paramount Plus)
4:05 p.m. — Cardinals vs. Seahawks (CBS, Paramount Plus)
4:25 p.m. — Rams vs. 49ers (FOX, Fox One)
4:25 p.m. — Lions vs. Commanders (FOX, Fox One)
All times Eastern Time (U.S.)
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