Los Angeles Kings Tickets

Kings seats worth buying, at a glance

For a Los Angeles Kings game, the seat to buy is a 100-level sideline seat near center ice, around sections 101 and 111, in the middle rows. Crypto.com Arena seats 18,145 for hockey, roughly two-thirds of them in the lower bowl, so the bowl is deep and the middle rows give you the whole sheet without the glass in your way.

• Watching Kings goals: lower sections 113–118, or 320 upstairs at that end.
• Feeling close without the glare: about row 15 or higher.
• Paying less for a good angle: lower-bowl corners or low 300-level sideline rows.
• Skipping if you can: the top 300-level rows behind the nets.

Home games run October through mid-April at 1111 South Figueroa Street, downtown.

Main concourse, suites and the upper concourse

The public seating sits in two rings with suites between them.

100 level and premier seats (main concourse)

The lower bowl and the premium seats along the glass. The red line falls closest to sections 101 and 111, which is why they sell first. Section 111, for example, has two lettered front rows and then numbered rows up to about 20, per one seating guide. The arena has about 2,500 club seats in total.

Suite levels

About 160 suites ring the building between the two public levels.

300 level (upper concourse)

The least expensive tier. The low sideline rows give a complete overhead view of breakouts and power plays. Its highest rows at either end feel remote.

Price follows proximity: glass-level premium seats cost the most, and the upper corners cost the least.

Row 15, the corners and the 113–118 end

• Glass seats: ice-level speed and hits, but the glass distorts play along the far boards. Climb to roughly row 15 and the distortion goes away, according to regulars, without losing the sense of being close.
• The Kings' attack end: Teams swap nets every period, which leaves the home side attacking one goal for two periods out of three. Guides locate the Kings' goal in front of lower sections 113–118; section 320 overlooks it from the 300 level.
• Lower-bowl corners: often cheaper than center ice at the same height, with a strong diagonal look into the offensive zone.
• Aisles: worth asking for. Everyone gets up at intermission, and crawling past a dozen knees eats into the break.

Confirm the attack end on the listing's seating chart, since configurations can change.

Freeway Face-Off dates and the busy weeks

Exhibition games open the year in late September; the Kings then play 41 of 82 games at home between October and mid-April, and the postseason can run into June. Because the building also books the Lakers, the Sparks, award shows and concert tours, hockey dates are slotted around everyone else.

• Anaheim: the neighbor down Interstate 5. Both fan bases show up, and these are often the first games to sell out.
• San Jose: NorCal against SoCal, with plenty of playoff history behind it.
• Edmonton: the 1988 Gretzky deal started it, and four straight postseason meetings, 2022 to 2025, kept it hot. Oilers fans and other Canadian visitors travel well.
• Saturdays and the holiday week: the stretch from Christmas to New Year's sells faster than November midweek games.
• Playoff dates: priced by the series and opponent, and quick to move once a home game is confirmed.

Lock in rival and weekend games early. If price matters more than the opponent, a midweek game against a team from outside the division is the play, and supply often eases in the last few days.

Pico Station, the garages and a clutch-size limit

The arena sits beside L.A. Live and the Convention Center. Rail is the low-stress option on a weeknight: walk over from Pico Station, served by Metro's A and E Lines. Drivers face heavy downtown traffic ahead of a 7:00 p.m. start.

• Garages and lots: arena parking means the West Garage (Lot W), the East Garage on West Olympic Boulevard (Lot E) or Lot C on L.A. Live Way; private lots sit 7 to 10 minutes away on foot. Mind the low ceiling in Lot C if you drive something tall.
• Bags: per the arena's 2026 A-to-Z guide, no bags of any kind, including backpacks, totes and clear bags. A clutch or wallet smaller than roughly 5 by 9 by 1 inches got through, as did medical and parenting bags, and there were lockers close by.
• Payment: cash-free.

Rules shift, so recheck the arena's policy guide near game day. Reserved Seat backs every order with a 100% guarantee.

L.A. Live before puck drop, Bailey inside

There is no parking-lot tailgate culture here. Fans gather instead at L.A. Live, the restaurant-and-bar complex next door. Outside the doors, Star Plaza has more than a dozen statues honoring people tied to the arena's past, a handy place to meet your group.

Rivalry nights are louder than midseason weeknights. Bailey, a lion wearing No. 72, is the mascot. The rafters carry seven retired numbers: Rogie Vachon's 30, Marcel Dionne's 16, Dave Taylor's 18, Luc Robitaille's 20, Wayne Gretzky's 99, Rob Blake's 4 and Dustin Brown's 23.

Long Beach, the Forum and a pair of Cups

Jack Kent Cooke bought the expansion franchise in 1967 and picked a name meant to suggest royalty, with purple and gold to match; the team wears black, silver and white now. Their debut, at Long Beach Arena on October 14, 1967, was a 4–2 win over Philadelphia; The Forum in Inglewood became home that December 30. They moved downtown for 1999–2000, into the building that opened October 17, 1999, as Staples Center and became Crypto.com Arena on December 25, 2021.

• 1982, the Miracle on Manchester: trailing Edmonton 5–0 in the third period of a playoff game, the Kings came back and won in overtime.
• 1988 to 1993: the Gretzky trade of August 9, 1988, changed hockey's profile in Southern California. His 168 points in 1988–89 remain the franchise record, and he took the team to the 1993 Final, lost to Montreal in five.
• 2012: as the West's eighth seed, Los Angeles beat New Jersey in six for its first title. Jonathan Quick, in goal, took the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP.
• 2014: a five-game Final win over the Rangers, with Justin Williams taking the Conn Smythe.

Both Cups were clinched on home ice downtown. For this season's lineup, see the Kings team site.

Sources

• Wikipedia – Los Angeles Kings
• Wikipedia – Crypto.com Arena
• Crypto.com Arena – A-Z Guide
• Crypto.com Arena – Getting Here
• LA Metro – Pico Station
• ABC7 – Staples Center renamed Crypto.com Arena
• RateYourSeats – Crypto.com Arena section 111 (orientation)
• RateYourSeats – Crypto.com Arena section 320 (orientation)
• Wikipedia – National Hockey League