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NFL Sunday Ticket is a must-have for any NFL fan. This streaming service lets you watch every single regular season Sunday afternoon NFL live stream, something no other service can offer. If you're a 49ers fan living in Atlanta, like me, it can be a lifesaver.

And there's a ton of games you'll want to watch during week 1 of the NFL. This includes the rookie debut of Caleb Williams in Titans vs Bears, Cowboys vs Browns and Rams vs Lions.

Like last season, YouTube TV is the 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. All primetime games, as well as any morning games in Europe, are not available to watch through Sunday ticket.

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.

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. You can sign up for NFL Sunday Ticket for $479* and add NFL RedZone for an additional $40 at checkout.

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. YouTube TV subscribers get a significant discount on Sunday Ticket — at least $100 off. New YouTube TV subscribers also currently get $20 a month off their YouTube TV subscription in addition to this discounted Sunday Ticket price.

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.

NFL Sunday Ticket is a season-long subscription, with your payment covering the entire 2024-2025 NFL regular season. Currently, there's no free trial aside from a Fanduel promotion (more on that later) and you cannot cancel once you sign up. But if that hefty price tag is scaring you off, there are monthly payment plans that make Sunday Ticket much more accessible for the average fan.

*Discounts currently available for select subscribers

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: Current discounts

At the moment, there are a few options for scoring a discount on NFL Sunday Ticket.

First, if you sign up through YouTube TV, you may be eligible for an additional discount beyond the $100 off that every YouTube TV subscriber gets. I currently see an additional $50 discount available when I try to sign up, but YouTube TV's offers page indicates discounts of up to $170 have been on offer.

This seems to vary by user, unfortunately, so unless you get a marketing email from YouTube, you might not see your discount offer until you get to the checkout page.

Verizon customers can also score NFL Sunday Ticket for free this season for a limited time. This offer only gives you access to NFL Sunday Ticket through YouTube Primetime Channels, though Verizon is also offering a separate discount on YouTube TV.

If you're a member of the U.S. military, you can also get a discount on Sunday Ticket this season. The service ID.me offers NFL Sunday Ticket for $199.

The website The TV Answer Man reports that right now you can score $50 off on Sunday Ticket using the code TICKET50 at checkout. According to the site, this only works for new Primetime Channels subscribers and is only available for a limited time.

However, I was able to get a $50 discount on Sunday Ticket through Primetime Channels despite being a returning subscriber. I also never saw anywhere to input a promo code when signing up on YouTube, but I did see a promo code input field when signing up via YouTube TV. So all I can say definitively is that there are definitely promotions available, but they may vary from person to person.

A Sunday Ticket free trial has also finally appeared for those who just want to test the service. For a limited time, Fanduel is running a promotion that will give you three weeks of NFL Sunday Ticket for free. All you need to do is opt-in to the promotion on the betting site's promotions page, place a $5 real money wager and then you'll receive a promotion link via email starting on September 5. You'll have until September 22 to redeem your promotional code for three free weeks. This promotion is only available to eligible bettors.

While it isn't a discount, right now YouTube TV is giving select users four months of Max free when they sign up for NFL Sunday Ticket. Just sign up for Sunday Ticket through YouTube TV (not YouTube) and then redeem your four free months of Max in your settings.

Finally, there's also a student discount, which we'll go into detail on below.

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 for the 2024-2025 NFL regular season. For $199 you get an NFL Sunday Ticket subscription for the entire 2024 regular season and for just $10 more you get NFL Redzone bundled with your Sunday Ticket plan. Just act fast if you want to take advantage of this student discount — it's already gone up in price by $90 since it was first offered.

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 Week 1 schedule

Here are the games that you can watch this week with an NFL Sunday Ticket subscription. Just keep in mind that if the game is local to your market it will be unavailable via Sunday Ticket.

For a full Week 1 NFL schedule make sure to check out our NFL livestreams guide.

• Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Atlanta Falcons @ 1 p.m. (Fox)

• Arizona Cardinals vs. Buffalo Bills @ 1 p.m. (CBS)

• Tennessee Titans vs. Chicago Bears @ 1 p.m. (Fox)

• New England Patriots vs. Cincinnati Bengals @ 1 p.m. (CBS)

• Houston Texans vs. Indianapolis Colts @ 1 p.m. (CBS)

• Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Miami Dolphins @ 1 p.m. (CBS)

• Carolina Panthers vs. New Orleans Saints @ 1 p.m. (Fox)

• Minnesota Vikings vs. New York Giants @ 1 p.m. (Fox)

• Las Vegas Raiders vs. Los Angeles Chargers @ 4:05 p.m. (CBS)

• Denver Broncos vs. Seattle Seahawks @ 4:05 p.m. (CBS)

• Dallas Cowboys vs. Cleveland Browns @ 4:25 p.m. (Fox)

• Washington Commanders vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ 4:25 p.m. (Fox)

All times Eastern Time.