Best Cities For Football Fans 2020: Miami Makes The List

MIAMI, FL — We may be the host city of Super Bowl LIV, but have you ever wondered how Miami compares with other metros across the country in its football passion?

With the Super Bowl this weekend, football fans across the nation are gearing up to watch the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday in Miami.

The personal finance website WalletHub released its “2020’s Best & Worst Cities For Football Fans.”

Pittsburgh tops the list as the best city for football fans in the nation but that's no surprise given that Pittsburgh is tied with the New England Patriots for the most Super Bowls wins with six titles in eight appearances.

Miami, which is hosting the game for a record 11th time this year, finished seventh on the overall list though the Dolphins have only played in the big game twice, back in 1973 and 1974.

• Professional Football Rank: 9
• College Football Rank: 11

Tampa, which will host the big game next year, ranked 25th on the overall list. Its Professional Football Rank is 27th while its College Football Rank is 116th, according to WalletHub.

Jacksonville finished 29th overall with a Professional Football Rank of 30th and a College Football Rank of 160th in the WalletHub list.

Pittsburgh ranked as the best city for football fans in the United States, according to WalletHub, followed by Boston and Dallas.

Here are some other highlights from the report.

The worst city for football fans in the nation? That uninspiring honor went to Brookville, New York. The bottom five were rounded out by Valparaiso, Indiana, Providence, Rhode Island, Davidson, North Carolina, and Ithaca, New York.

Buffalo, New York, finished as the city with the lowest average ticket price for an NFL game in the country. New York City edged out Los Angeles for the city with the least-engaged NFL fans in the nation.

The ranking compared more than 240 U.S. cities with at least one college or professional football team across 21 key metrics of fan friendliness, including average ticket price, number of NFL championships and college football fan engagement.

Each relevant metric was then listed with its corresponding weight, and the cities were graded on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 representing the best possible city for a football fan.

Here are the 10 best football cities for fans, according to WalletHub.

1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 63.11
2. Boston, Massachusetts: 56.15
3. Dallas, Texas: 53.44
4. Green Bay, Wisconsin: 53.22
5. New York, New York: 48.38
6. New Orleans, Louisiana: 47.8
7. Miami, Florida: 46.63
8. San Francisco, California: 45.64
9. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 43.26
10. Oakland, California: 42.59

The full report on football fandom is available at WalletHub.