Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A single seat at this season's Super Bowl will carry a face value of $1,000 for the first time, the National Football League said today.

The league's championship game on Feb. 1 in Tampa, Florida, also will have tickets selling for $800, and the NFL plans to make a ``limited number'' of seats available at an unspecified lower cost, spokesman Brian McCarthy said.

This year's Super Bowl, in which the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots, had ticket face values of $900 and $700.

It's the second straight year prices have been increased, and comes a week after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, citing the league's difficulty in financing new stadiums, told reporters that the sport is not recession proof.

The cost of the average Super Bowl ticket has increased 146 percent the past 10 years, compared with a 34 percent rise in the consumer price index. Even with the jump in face value, some tickets to the last championship game were selling on Internet auction site EBay Inc. for more than $4,000 a piece.

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Super Bowl Tickets
Game       Prices
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I         $12, $10, $6
II        $12
III       $12
IV        $15
V         $15
VI        $15
VII       $15
VIII      $15
IX        $20
X         $20
XI        $20
XII       $30
XIII      $30
XIV       $30
XV        $40
XVI       $40
XVII      $40
XVIII     $60
XIX       $60
XX        $75
XXI       $75
XXII      $100
XXIII     $100
XXIV      $125
XXV       $150
XXVI      $150
XXVII     $175
XXVIII    $175
XXIX      $200
XXX       $350, $250, $200
XXXI      $275
XXXII     $275
XXXIII    $325
XXXIV     $325
XXXV      $325
XXXVI     $400
XXXVII    $500, $400
XXXVIII   $600, $500, $400
XXXIX     $600, $500
XL        $700, $600
XLI       $700, $600
XLII      $900, $700

To contact the reporter on this story: Curtis Eichelberger in Washington at ceichelberge@bloomberg.net; Aaron Kuriloff in St. Petersburg, Florida, at akuriloff@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: October 15, 2008 16:58 EDT