Tickets for the Glastonbury Festival go on sale this week, with millions of fans expected to fight it out for a chance to attend the event, which will run from 25-29 June 2025. No headliners have been announced yet, but demand is expected to be higher than ever because the festival will take a year off in 2026. Last year, all 210,000 tickets sold out in just 58 minutes as more than 2.5 million people tried to log on and secure a place.

"There aren't enough tickets for everybody," organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC's Sidetracked podcast earlier this year. "It's one of the worst parts of the job [because] we can't do anything about it. We definitely can't do two weekends."

"But a lot of the time," she added, "people who really, really want to come often get tickets through volunteering or through competitions."

So there's always hope... But if you're brave enough to run the gauntlet of the online ticketing system, here are a few tips that might (might) help improve your chances.

Navigating the New Ticketing System

Fans hoping to get tickets for next year’s Worthy Farm event are having to navigate new queuing system for the first time. This year, Glastonbury has introduced a new queueing system that requires you to log on in advance. That way, when the ticket sale starts, you will be randomly assigned a place in the queue. People who join later will automatically be placed at the back of the line, so it pays to be punctual.

Also, 09:00 on Sunday isn't the most sociable time of the week. Set an alarm. Set multiple alarms. Get an insomniac friend to come over to your house and poke you with a stick. Whatever works. If it's possible (and I apologize for this in advance), you could even drag yourself into work. No matter how good your wifi is at home, a work computer could have a more stable connection.

Glastonbury’s Crackdown on Touts

Glastonbury are cracking down on people who try to game the system: “Running multiple devices or tabs simultaneously to attempt to access the website may lead to your IP address being blocked.”

You can however use your phone data alongside your laptop, which will have a separate IP address. Again, only use one browser tab.

Increase Your Chances of Securing Tickets

Each person to successfully reach the front of the queue can buy six tickets, so if you haven’t already done so, form a syndicate of six registered people to log on from different IP addresses – hopefully one of you will be successful and secure tickets for the rest. Old Glastonbury pros often link up these syndicates into a sort of waterfall structure, with each successful person distributing the tickets to people they’ve earmarked, sometimes leaving leftover tickets for others in the group (this is where having someone with an extremely boring job involving spreadsheets really comes in handy). This year – excitingly! – there will be a progress bar showing how close you are to the front of the queue, so this will hopefully help to ascertain who from your group is most likely to be successful.

The Coach Ticket Sale: What You Need to Know

Plenty of people don’t even countenance going to Glastonbury without a car, reasoning that they need a big tent (they don’t), five outfits a day (debatable) and enough box wine to fill a bathtub (strong case to be made). But if you’re willing to get a coach – and reduce your emissions in getting to the festival – you get another chance at buying tickets. The sale with coach tickets begins at 6pm GMT on 14 November, with non-coach tickets going on sale at 9am GMT on 17 November. Also, crucially, you then don’t have to drive home while enduring the mother of all comedowns (from the vibes, of course). With 28 towns and cities served by coaches that take you right up to the festival gates, it’s worth reducing your fancy-dress quotient for.

The Big Ticket Sale

The way it works this year is that everyone waiting on the tickets page when they go on sale will be randomly assigned a place in a queue. So if you aren’t already on the page, you will not have the faintest chance of getting a ticket – make sure you are on the page “at least a few minutes before the sale opens”, organisers say.

Last-Minute Tips to Improve Your Chances

You will only have 10 minutes to buy tickets before you’re kicked out of the queue with all the grace of a security guard on their fourth shift of the weekend. Make sure you have the ticket registration numbers and postcodes of everyone you’re planning to buy tickets for. You will also need enough money in your bank account to cover a £75 deposit for each ticket, plus coach fare if buying a coach ticket. The full ticket price is £373.50 plus £5 booking fee.

Don’t refresh your page, and don’t click off it in frustration or distraction. Breathe deeply.

Ultimately it’s down to luck where you’re placed in the queue, so this might be worth trying.

Coach Tickets Sold Out

Glastonbury Festival 2025 ticket packages, including coach travel, have now sold out, with disappointed hopefuls hitting out at the “horrendous” new system for queuing. Thousands of punters have been left disappointed after missing out on the first round of sought-after tickets for next year’s event at Worthy Farm, with coach sale tickets selling out this evening in just over 30 minutes.

The unlucky fans who did not bag a ticket have taken to social media to slam the new system, which was introduced for the first time this year and had already sparked concerns ahead of the sale at 6pm.

Glastonbury’s Response to the Ticket Sale

A statement on the Glastonbury website explained the change, which was confirmed on 5 November: “Rather than refreshing the holding page to attempt to access the booking page, this year, when the ticket sale begins, everyone who is already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process.”

It added that anyone who logged on once the sale started would automatically be added to the back of the queue.

What’s Next for Glastonbury?

No headliners have been announced for next year’s festival – but demand was expected to be higher than ever as Glastonbury, which will take place between Wednesday 25 June to Sunday 29 June, will be taking a year off in 2026.

Oasis Rule Out Glastonbury Performance

Oasis have ruled out a sensational return to Worthy Farm putting an end to growing rumours that the band were intending on crowning their reunion with a headline slot at Glastonbury. Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher officially buried the hatchet after an infamous backstage bust-up ahead of a 2009 festival date led to their split, setting the stage for a lucrative European tour in 2025. Over the last 15 years, the musicians have repeatedly fielded – and fuelled – reports of a reunion, and will now perform together for a run of 14 shows in the UK and Ireland next summer. Pre-sale ballots are now open.

Glastonbury 2025: Get Ready for General Admission Tickets

All is not lost for the unlucky music fans who did not manage to get themselves a Glastonbury 2025 ticket in the coach sale this evening – as the general admission tickets are going on sale over the weekend. Start preparing yourselves for an early night on Saturday, as punters are advised to be prepared well ahead of time before the sale begins at 9am on Sunday (17 November).

The Verdict on the New System

Others – who we can probably assume were among the lucky few to bag a ticket – have described the new Glastonbury ticket system as “superb”. One festival-goer wrote on X: “Tell you what. This new Glastonbury ticket system is superb.” Disappointed punters have argued the Glastonbury ticket system was already the “worst on earth” – but with the new one, is now “substantially worse”. A music fan took to social media to tell the festival team: “Congratulations on somehow managing to make the worst ticket buying process on earth substantially worse. An incredible achievement. They said it couldn’t be done.” Another disappointed festival-goer has branded the new ticket system “abysmal”. They wrote on X: “Let’s be honest that queue system was abysmal.” Another unlucky Glastonbury fan has called the new ticket system “nonsense” and argued it “shows the country is in deep decline. After the coach tickets sold out in just over 30 minutes, they took to social media to state:”This Glastonbury ticketing system shows the country is in deep decline. How can you make an already terrible ticketing system worse with this nonsense?” Disappointed Glastonbury hopefuls have hit out at the “horrendous” new ticket system. With coach sale tickets now sold out, unlucky music fans have taken to social media to express their frustration with the new system.

Hope for the Future: Glastonbury Tickets Still Available

Glastonbury coach tickets for 2025 are now sold out. The festival’s team posted the following update on its ticket website: “Coach tickets for Glastonbury 2025 are now SOLD OUT. The general admission ticket sale will take place Sunday at 9am (GMT).” An update from Glastonbury has revealed that there are limited Thursday coach tickets for next year’s festival still available. However, the team has announced that unfortunately all Wednesday departures have now sold out.

The Glastonbury Experience: A Must-See for Music Lovers

Maybe you missed out this year and had everyone going on about how great it was and how Coldplay, actually, really put on a spectacle even if you don’t like their music. Or you did go, and need something to get you through the winter with your sense of joie de vivre intact. Whatever your reason, today marks the first opportunity to bag yourself Glastonbury tickets – here’s a few tips to improve your chances, whether this year or next.