Glastonbury Festival 2014 tickets go on sale this weekend

Glastonbury Festival 2014

Wednesday 25th to Sunday 29th June 2014
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£210 (secured with a deposit) - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 177,500

This weekend 120,000 tickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival will go on sale at 9am Sunday, 6th October 2013.

All registered festival-goers who want to buy tickets will be able reserve them using the deposit scheme at a price of £50 per ticket via glastonbury.seetickets.com, or the UK ticket sales line on 0844 412 4635.

International bookings can be made via seetickets.com or via the international booking line 0044 1159 934 183 which will be charged at standard international rates.

Please note that UK sales will not be accepted on the International Ticket Sales Line, and vice versa. Nor will bookings be taken on any other Seetickets telephone lines.

Anyone aged 13 or over (when the Festival starts) who wishes to buy a ticket must be registered. All registered festival-goers who want to buy tickets will need the registration number and postcode for each person for whom a ticket is being booked.

Payment by card for UK sales (both online and by telephone) will be by the following debit cards only - Visa Debit, Visa Electron, Switch/Maestro Domestic and Solo. Credit cards will not be accepted for UK sales. For the purpose of ticket sales the UK includes Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Debit card sales will be processed immediately in most cases and certainly within five working days of the sale being confirmed.

International ticket purchases can only be made using either Visa or Mastercard credit cards.

Any transaction that results in a charge back or payment dispute will be cancelled. It is the ticket purchasers responsibility to ensure that they have sufficient funds in their account to pay for the tickets. The transaction will in many cases will be completed immediately or during the five working days following the sale.

For the first time before the main ticket sale Festival bosses offered 15,000 early bird coach and ticket packages ahead of the main ticket sale and they sold out after half an hour.

eFestivals has no idea how high demand will be when they go on sale, but here are a few historic sell out times for you to consider:

2013 - on sale October, sold out 1 hour and 40 minutes.
2012 - Fallow year.
2011 - on sale October, sold out 4 hours (1.15pm).
2010 - on sale October, sold out 12 hours.
2009 - on sale October, sold out February.
2008 - on sale April, sold out a day before the Festival started.
2007 - First year of registration system (implemented to cut out touting) on sale April, sold out 2 hours.
2006 - Fallow year.
2005 - on sale April, sold out 1 hour and 45 minutes (touts and scalpers blamed with thousands then put up for sale on eBay).
2004 - on sale April, sold out 24 hours.
2003 - on sale April, sold out 26 hours.
2002 - on sale April, sold out after 25 days, which was the first time it sold out 2 months in advance, and the first year of the super fence.

So we recommend you get up early, and be patient when trying to buy tickets. eFestivals will be using our forums to try to keep people abreast of news on how ticket sales are going.

In the meantime, you can join the discussion, and the build up to 9am on Sunday by visiting our Glastonbury Festival Forums.

Those purchasing online will be sent a confirmation email and booking reference number. Please note this will only be sent to the first person on the booking form. Please check your spam folder if you do not receive this within 24 hours. Keep the confirmation email safe. If you have any queries about your purchase you will need the booking reference number.

Tickets can only be bought on the deposit scheme, the full price priced is £210. Ticket balances for both UK and international buyers of £160 per ticket (plus £5 booking fee per ticket ), will be payable in the first week of April 2014 when there will also be options to book everything else needed (campervan tickets, parking, cancellation protection). Postage by Royal Mail Special Delivery will be charged at £7 per order. Please note that there is no option to pay your ticket balance prior to this date.

When available, in spring 2014, a car park ticket will be priced at £25 and a campervan ticket will be priced at £85. Car Park or Campervan Tickets will not be able to be booked until the balance is paid for at least one of the tickets on a booking.

Anyone who decides not to pay their balance by 23:59 on Monday April 7th 2014 will be refunded their deposit, minus a £15 administration fee. Those tickets will then be put forward to re-sales, which are likely to be in April or May 2014.

Ticket registration closed on Monday, and is due to re-open sometime next week. Everyone who plans to the come the Festival must register, and that includes children aged 13, 14 and 15. Each ticket sold will feature a photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-transferable. An existing registration can be checked here.

The deadline for ticket refunds will be Friday 9th May 2014.

Next year's Glastonbury runs for five full days from Wednesday 25th until Sunday 29th June 2014 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset. As ever, entry includes a free programme. Once again, the Festival will be raising more than £2 million in funds for Oxfam, Wateraid, Greenpeace and a host of local charities and causes.

No acts are confirmed as yet, and the names won't be announced until after all the tickets have been sold. As usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours, allowing festival-goers to see who is playing long before the bands are formally announced - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2014 rumours, updated as we receive information. Help us to help you - if you hear of a band that's playing, please let us know.

For more detailed registration and ticket information click here.

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