Glastonbury Festival 2016 tickets go on sale this weekend

This weekend 120,000 tickets for next year's Glastonbury Festival will go on sale at 9am on Sunday, 4th October 2015.

All registered festival-goers who want to buy tickets whether from the UK or International will only be able reserve them using the deposit scheme at a price of £50 per ticket via glastonbury.seetickets.com,

For the first time tickets cannot be booked by telephone.

Anyone aged 13 or over (when the Festival starts) who wishes to buy a ticket will need the registration number and postcode for each person for whom a ticket is being booked. Registration is temporarily suspended before and during the main ticket selling period, remaining closed until after this Sunday's main ticket sale.

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.

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 in under 15 minutes.

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:

2015 - on sale October, sold out 26 minutes.
2014 - on sale October, sold out 1 hour and 27 minutes.
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.

The official website offers the following advice for getting a ticket:

1. Make sure you have all your registration details (including postcodes) ready and checked in advance, that there are sufficient cleared funds on the card you intend to use to book, and that you know all the security information for that card.

2. Be aware that tickets are not held whilst you’re entering your details, so you need to be ready to enter all your details quickly and accurately once you reach the booking page.

3. Be persistent and patient – there are likely to be more people trying to buy tickets than tickets available, so inevitably not everyone will be able to book tickets, but the longer you try the more likely you are to get a ticket, so don't give up after the first half an hour.

4. Stick to one tab, in one window, so you can focus on entering your details without confusing your browser. Access to the booking page is limited to 10 minutes from the point you enter your registration details, so if you have lots of tabs refreshing the same page, the clock will start as soon as the first one of those tabs hits the site, which may have been a window you weren’t keeping an eye on.

6. If the page ‘hangs’ and you can’t get any further, try pressing back once and then continue your booking from that point. If that doesn’t help, close your browser and start again. Please don’t continue to refresh the page beyond 10 minutes after entering your details as your access to the page will have expired. You will need to close the browser and start again to gain fresh access to the booking page.

7. If an attempt to book is already held against your registration number, your number will be held for up to 10 minutes whilst the transaction is attempted, but will be released if the transaction fails, to give you the chance to try again.

There will then be no further UK or International payments taken until the booking site re-opens in the first week of April 2016 when deposit purchasers will have one week to pay the balance of £178 per ticket, and to book parking, or insurance.

A car park ticket will be priced at £25 and a campervan ticket will be priced at £100. Car Park or Campervan Tickets will not be able to be booked on Sunday.

Anyone who decides not to pay their balance by 23:59 on Thursday 7th April 2016 will be refunded their deposit, minus a £15 administration fee. If the ticket was booked with a Coach Package, then an additional £10 will be retained. Those tickets will then be put forward to re-sales, which are likely to be in April or May 2016.

The deadline for ticket refunds will be Friday 6th May 2016.

Please note: See Tickets is the only company permitted to sell tickets for Glastonbury Festival. No other site or agency will be allocated tickets. Any other company or individual claiming to sell Glastonbury Festival tickets is bogus..

Tickets for Worthy View, the pre-erected camp site offering a range of British-made traditional scout tents, bell tents, tipi tents and small yurts are likely to go on sale in a couple of weeks time. For the first time this year you will also be able to book campervan tickets and tipis in this sale.

Glastonbury Festival will take place on 2,000 acres around a farm in Pilton, Somerset over five full days from Wednesday 23rd until Sunday 27th June 2016. 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.

There are no acts confirmed yet for 2016. Expect something like 2,000 performances at over 100 venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information, site art, decor, and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

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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