Glastonbury 2027 ticket sales: 10 tips to give you the best chance

Glastonbury Festival will once again return to Worthy Farm in 2027 – with more than 200,000 people expected to attend the five-day event.

But getting your hands on a ticket is notoriously difficult, with well over a million would-be revelers entering ballots each year to get it.

Bookmakers have estimated the probability of securing a Glastonbury ticket at just 8.4 per cent, meaning hopeful festival-goers need to be prepared when tickets go on sale.

Coach and ticket packages go on sale at 6pm on Thursday 1 October, while general admission tickets go on sale at 9am on Sunday 4 October.

Registration for the 2027 festival is now closed, and you must already have a valid registration to purchase a ticket.

Tickets can be booked for up to six people in one transaction, so a group of six together will give you more opportunities to secure tickets.

Create a group chat well before the sale and make sure everyone has their details ready.

You’ll need each person’s full name, postcode and registration number, so consider putting everything in a common table.

You can even arrange a group video call for the morning of the sale to make sure everyone is online and ready.

Everyone in your group should be on the ticketing website before the tickets go on sale.

The queue is automatically assigned, so anyone who has started after the sale will be put in the queue later.

Get everyone into the waiting room before the announced sale time and keep the page open.

It may seem logical to use different phones, laptops or browser tabs to increase your chances, but this can cause problems.

Using multiple devices or tabs may trigger the security measures of the ticketing system and potentially result in you being removed from the queue.

One device and one browser tab per person is the safer approach.

Glastonbury tickets are only officially sold through See Tickets.

The official ticketing website is glastonbury.seetickets.com.

Do not buy tickets through resale sites, social media or other third party platforms.

When a person gets through the queue, they need the registration details for everyone in order to buy tickets.

Tickets are strictly non-transferable, and the email confirmation contains the registration number required to complete the booking.

Double check each person’s details before the sale begins.

A £100 deposit is required per person, so a group of six will need sufficient available funds to cover a £600 deposit.

Make sure the card being used has sufficient funds and consider having a second payment card ready as a backup.

It’s also worth having your bank account nearby in case you need to authenticate the payment.

This is a big Glastonbury no-no.

If you are part of several groups and give your login details to more than one person, you can create problems if another group gets through first.

If your registration number has been used in an order, another group cannot use it to complete their booking.

Choose a trusted group and stick with it.

When the sale is open, people in the waiting room are assigned a place in the queue.

This means that getting to the website early does not guarantee that you will be at the front.

If someone in your group gets through before the tickets are sold out, they should go ahead with the booking instead of everyone leaving their own queue.