Not only is the NFL about to jack the price of thousands of tickets to the New York Super Bowl to record heights, but the league wants to stop the average fan from profiting off the game, too.
While stressing that a decision is not final, NFL officials confirmed Tuesday that roughly 9,000 club-level seats in the mezzanine with access to indoor restaurants at MetLife Stadium could be priced as high as $2,600 each for Super Bowl XLVIII in February.
That would be more than double the $1,250 cost of the highest-priced ticket to last season's Super Bowl in New Orleans. It marks the clearest sign yet the NFL has finally decided to take a seat alongside scalpers in leveraging the massive — and still growing — popularity of the sport's signature event.
Plans for the giant price hike for certain club seats were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
"We are looking to close the gap between the face value of the ticket and its true value as reflected on the secondary market," league spokesman Brian McCarthy told The Post in an email Tuesday afternoon.
Though the market for those top-of-the-line seats is relatively small and limited to very deep pockets, the general public will be affected by the NFL's Super Bowl ticket overhaul, too.
The league is doubling the number of winners in its annual Super Bowl ticket lottery to 1,000 from the usual 500 and cutting the cost of those seats to $500 from $650, but lottery winners can forget about turning around and hawking those seats on the secondary market for big money.
The NFL now plans to forbid lottery winners from picking up their tickets until the day of the game, and only after they have entered MetLife Stadium. They will not be allowed to go back to the parking lot.
The lottery, which last year attracted 30,000 entries, will be limited mostly to season-ticketholders from the Giants and Jets for this season's game. The winners will be announced in the fall.
McCarthy told The Post the league is cracking down on lottery winners "in an effort to ensure these fans actually go to the game and do not resell the tickets." He added the NFL had determined most lottery winners resold their tickets for as much as five times the face value.
Meanwhile, club seats with restaurant access won't be the only tickets going up, up, up at this season's Super Bowl.
General admission tickets will have a face value of as much as $1,200 each after being sold for $950 in New Orleans, according to the NFL, and club seats without all the amenities will increase to $1,500 each after being priced at $1,250 and $950 at the Superdome.
The league noted it is planning to drop the face-value price of 30 percent of the general-admission tickets at MetLife to $800 for this season's game (down from a high of $950 in New Orleans).
Additionally, 40 percent of all general-admission seats would carry a face value of $1,000 or less.
As well as wanting a bigger slice of the true value of the Super Bowl, the league is admitting it wants to take advantage of playing for the first time in the country's richest market.
"The uniqueness of the Super Bowl in the New York/New Jersey area is also driving unprecedented demand and buzz," McCarthy said.
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