Global online payment service PayPal has followed up its recent partnership with American football’s NFL by teaming up with the Seattle Seahawks franchise in a new multi-year deal.
Through the agreement, the company will serve as the team’s official fan-to-fan payments and exclusive digital ticket payment processing partner.
The Seahawks become the first NFL club partner for PayPal after the firm was named as the official peer-to-peer payments partner of the league in April.
As part of the Seahawks tie-up, PayPal will also become the new presenting partner of the Seahawks Gameday Experience Program, which gives fans access to exclusive opportunities such as pregame field passes, on-field access during player introductions, postgame press conference access, and more for every home game.
In addition, fans purchasing season tickets will have the opportunity to exclusively check out using PayPal's platform. The Seahawks have fully integrated PayPal's payment processing platform with Ticketmaster, which is a first for PayPal with the NFL.
Amy Sprangers, Seattle Seahawks chief revenue officer, said: “We are thrilled to welcome PayPal, an industry leader in payments and digital commerce, to the Seahawks family.
“Our shared commitment to innovation will elevate the gameday experience for the 12s in new and exciting ways.”
PayPal is expanding its presence in sports and last year secured a deal with Liverpool to become the English Premier League soccer club’s official digital payments partner.
Earlier this year, the estate of late billionaire Paul Allen, owner of the Seahawks, announced its formal entry into a sale process for the team.
As reigning Super Bowl champions, the franchise will undoubtedly fetch a high price that will almost certainly exceed the record $6.05 billion fee that the Josh Harris-led consortium paid to acquire the Washington Commanders franchise in 2023.
In August 2025, Forbes valued the Seahawks at $6.7 billion, 14th overall in the NFL, a valuation contributed to by the state of the franchise’s 68,740-seater Lumen field home, which is in the upper half of the league in terms of both capacity and age (it was opened in 2002).
