Christina Gough
Research expert covering sports and video gaming
Green Bay Packers - statistics & facts
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team competing in the National Football League (NFL) in the NFC North division. Founded in 1919 by Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the Packers are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL and are the only non-profit, community-owned team in the league. The Packers have won 13 league championships, the most in NFL history, with nine pre-Super Bowl NFL titles in addition to four Super Bowl titles in 1967, 1968, 1997, and 2011. Given the Packers' success and the star quality of some of their recent players, such as Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, it is no surprise that the team is well-supported locally and further afield.
What are the financials of the Green Bay Packers?
Under the current ownership of Green Bay Packers Inc., the team’s franchise value rose to 4.6 billion U.S. dollars as of 2023. As a publicly held nonprofit, the Packers are also the only North American major league sports franchise to release its financial balance sheet every year. In 2022, the revenue of the Green Bay Packers reached an all-time high of 577 million U.S dollars. Despite the team’s increasing revenue, the Green Bay Packers ranked in the bottom half of the most valuable NFL franchises in 2023. After deducting operating costs such as the payroll of the Green Bay Packers, the operating income of the franchise amounted to 69 million U.S. dollars in 2022.How many fans attend the average Green Bay Packers game?
The Packers have played their home games at the Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin since 1957. In 2022, the team’s average regular season home attendance totaled 76,180. The cost of attending a Packers game in that year was more expensive compared to most other NFL teams. A family of four could expect to pay around 691 U.S. dollars according to the 2022 Fan Cost Index. This figure was largely due to the average ticket price of a Green Bay Packers game, which was just over 134 U.S. dollars in 2022. Meanwhile, the team with the highest average ticket price that year was the Las Vegas Raiders.Do the Green Bay Packers have a strong social media following?
The Green Bay Packers had a comparatively high social media following in the NFL as of October 2023, with the franchise’s official X page (formerly known as Twitter) recording approximately 2.59 million followers. The New England Patriots, by comparison, topped the list with 4.67 million X followers. When compared to the social media followings of individual NFL players, however, all NFL teams had a significantly smaller social media outreach. Odell Beckham Jr., a wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens, had nearly 17 million Instagram followers as of January 2023.
