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 the current home of NFL Sunday Ticket. For your money, you get unlimited streams inside your household and access to condensed game replays. And if you have a Google TV, Google even integrates Sunday Ticket right into your homescreen, making it easier than ever to watch.
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. That means this week's Saturday football doubleheader won't be available to watch.
Despite those limitations, I can tell you personally that it's worth it. Here's how to get signed up for NFL Sunday Ticket for the 2024-2025 season, along with everything else you need to know. Note: NFL Sunday Ticket has concluded for the 2024-2025 NFL season.
NFL Sunday Ticket: Availability
NFL Sunday Ticket is available only on YouTube or YouTube TV 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 you 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. For a standalone NFL Sunday Ticket TV subscription, you can sign up through YouTube Primetime Channels. 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. Right now the regular season is over though, so you cannot sign up for NFL Sunday Ticket.
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.
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There's one thing you must be aware of though. If you sign up for NFL Sunday Ticket YouTube and YouTube TV will automatically set you up for 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.
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, as the NFL regular season has concluded.
NFL Sunday Ticket: Current discounts
At the moment, there are no discounts available on NFL Sunday Ticket. We'll update this accordingly once discounts start appearing for the 2025-2026 NFL season.
NFL Sunday Ticket: Student pricing
Are you a college-bound NFL junkie on a budget? Typically, 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 cannot sign up for a Sunday Ticket student discount.
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 2024-25 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.
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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, ABC and CBS. You can also pick up an HD antenna to get those same channels over the air.
NFL Sunday Ticket schedule
There are no more NFL Sunday Ticket games, as the 2024-2025 NFL regular season has concluded. For the NFL playoffs schedule check out our NFL livestreams guide.
