Virtually all 49ers season-ticket holders have been shut out from buying Super Bowl 50 tickets at face value, a development that has many fans angry because they feel the club reneged on a promise of that option.

Fan who purchased seat licenses funded nearly half the cost of Levi's Stadium, hardly small change for a $1.3 billion facility. But the 49ers didn't speak up about Super Bowl ticket availability until late last Friday, and when they did, it was bad news. Only a select few season-ticket holders were allowed to buy tickets.

49ers CEO Jed York addressed the situation Monday, saying there were roughly 2,500 tickets available to sell to the club's season-ticket holders in the 68,500-seat stadium. Even adding 6,500 temporary seats to expand capacity to roughly 74,000, there weren't many tickets to go to "The Faithful."

San Francisco 49ers Chief Executive Officer Jed York addresses the media Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., one day after the firing of head coach Jim Tomsula. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) ( Karl Mondon )

York confessed it's a tough swallow for local fans, but not out of the ordinary for a Super Bowl.

"I think that's the biggest things that host teams see," he said. "Obviously, you have a ton of demand for tickets, and there's one thing I could wave my magic wand and change, it's that host teams could actually have more access to tickets. But that's not something we're in control of, and our fans got the first opportunity to get them. We have a lot of fans who will be going. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough tickets to satisfy our demand."

York said suite holders and club seat holders had first dibs on what tickets were available. The rest of the season-ticket holder base essentially got the scraps of whatever ticket-purchasing opportunities were passed by those two top tiers. Apparently, not many did.