Glastonbury 2016 tickets on sale date announced

The tickets on sale dates have been confirmed for next year's Glastonbury Festival with up to a maximum of 6 tickets able to be booked at once.

All registered festival-goers who want to buy tickets will be able reserve them using the deposit scheme from 9am on Sunday 4th October 2015, and eFestivals will have links for you to buy them then.

Festival goers will be able to book a ticket by paying a deposit, with the balance payable in the first week of April 2016 (from 9am Friday 1st April – 23:59 Thursday 7th April). Please note that there is no option to pay your ticket balance prior to the date.

As part of the Festival's continued commitment to green travel, 15,000 coach + ticket packages will, as this year be sold in advance of the general sale and will go on sale at 7pm BST on Thursday, 1st October, via glastonbury.seetickets.com, rewarding green travellers with the chance to be the first to secure their Glastonbury 2016 tickets.

As with the general release of tickets, Festival goers will be able to book up to six coach + ticket packages per transaction. Ticket prices will be confirmed in advance of the ticket sale.

To prevent touting Festival goers must register in advance for tickets which are non-transferable. Each ticket features the photograph of the registered ticket holder with security checks carried out to ensure that only the person in the photograph is admitted to the Festival.

Anyone who would like to go to the Festival must register, and that includes children aged 13, 14 and 15.

Any ticket deposits for which the balance has not been paid by 8th April 2016 will be automatically refunded to the card on which they were booked; with a £15 administration charge retained and all tickets for which the balance has not been paid will be cancelled.

Glastonbury 2016 which will take place at a farm in Pilton, Somerset over five full days on the last weekend in June, that's from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June 2016, is now open for just a few weeks until Friday 18th September (when registration will close until after the main ticket sales).

Online registration for 2016 can be carried out by clicking here. 

Anyone with a registration submitted prior to 2010 will need to re-register, for free, before they can purchase tickets for the 2016 Festival (unless they already have a valid registration from a later year).

You can also check your existing registration by clicking here, and edit the details here.

Registration does not reserve or guarantee you a ticket when they go on sale, but if you don't register you will not be able to buy a weekend ticket for Glastonbury Festival 2016.

Tickets for this year's event sold out in in just under 26 minutes.

Remember if you fail to get tickets, that cancellations will be made available for resale at face value via the Festival’s authorised ticket agency, See Tickets.

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 2016 rumours, updated as we receive information.

Help us to help you - if you hear of a band that's playing, please let us know.

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