Christina Gough
Research expert covering sports and video gaming
Kansas City Chiefs - statistics & facts
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team originally founded in Dallas as the Dallas Texans by businessman Lamar Hunt in 1959, before moving to Kansas in 1963. The team competes in the Western Division of the American Football Conference, one of two conferences making up the National Football League (NFL). The Chiefs have won four Super Bowl titles in total, with three of these coming since 2019 under the guidance of coach Andy Reid and with Patrick Mahomes as quarterback. The Chiefs won back-to-back Super Bowls in 2022 and 2023, with their latter success being watched by a record of over 123 million viewers in the United States.
How are the Kansas City Chiefs performing financially?
Ownership of the Chiefs has remained in the Hunt family and, under Clark Hunt as CEO, the franchise value of the Kansas City Chiefs rose to approximately 4.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. In the previous year, the Chiefs’ revenue amounted to 540 million U.S. dollars – a below average value for revenue among NFL teams, despite the recent Super Bowl successes. A significant share of this income is allocated to the Chiefs’ payroll, which reached a record 269 million U.S. dollars in 2022. After deducting all overhead expenses including payroll, the operating income of the Kansas-based franchise came to 95 million U.S. dollars in 2022.How many Kansas City Chiefs fans attend live games?
Arrowhead Stadium has been home to the Chiefs since 1972, with the average home attendance for the franchise regularly exceeding 73 thousand fans. The stadium is the fourth largest in the NFL in terms of capacity and, according to the 2022 Fan Cost Index, the average cost for a family of four to watch a live Chiefs game was roughly consistent with the NFL average, totaling close to 590 U.S. dollars. The ticket price for home games has increased considerably in recent years, notably since the championship win in 2019. In 2023, an average ticket for a game at Arrowhead Stadium cost over 130 U.S. dollars. However, hungry fans could find solace in the price of a hot dog at Chiefs games being among the league’s least expensive.Do the Kansas City Chiefs have a large social media following?
Among American Football teams, the Chiefs had one of the larger social media followings in the NFL as of October 2023, with the franchise’s official X (formerly Twitter) page having around 2.5 million followers. However, when compared to the social media followings of individual NFL players, all NFL teams had a significantly smaller social media reach than players such as Odell Beckham Jr. who had over 16 million Instagram followers as of January 2023.
