The public ballot, the route most people think of first for Wimbledon tickets, has closed for the 2027 Championships. A Centre Court seat still costs £15.
Not a typo and not a lottery. The All England Club sells returned Show Court tickets from a kiosk inside the grounds at £15 for Centre Court and £10 for No.1 and No.2 Courts, every afternoon of The Championships, and publishes the fact on a page almost nobody reads.
2027 is the 150th Championships, from 28 June to 11 July, which means demand will be worse than usual and the ballot you have just missed was the least interesting of the routes in. Here are the others, with what each actually requires.
How much Wimbledon tickets cost, starting with the £15 Centre Court seat
The Ticket Resale Kiosk sits in Parkside, next to No.1 Court. When ticket holders leave early, their Show Court seats go back on sale there.
Centre Court £15. No.1 Court £10. No.2 Court £10. All proceeds net of VAT go to the Wimbledon Foundation.
You need a Grounds Pass to use it. That is the catch and it is the whole catch. Resale is for people already inside, so the route is: get a Grounds Pass by any means, then buy a Show Court seat for the price of two pints.
The queue for it is virtual. Present your myWimbledon QR code in the Wimbledon app to a steward at the Parkside kiosk, or in the Queue Village if you arrived via the Queue, fill in a form, and then go and enjoy the grounds. You watch your position move in the app and get an SMS when it is your turn, with a window to return in.
Registration runs 10am to 9pm at Parkside, or until capacity is reached. Sales run 3pm to 9pm, or earlier if play on court finishes for the day.
So the practical shape of a cheap day is: be inside by mid morning, register immediately, spend the afternoon on the outside courts, and take a Show Court seat in the evening for £15.
The Queue, and the rules that catch people out
Wimbledon is, in its own words, one of the very few major sporting events where you can buy premium tickets on the day of play.
Roughly 1,500 tickets a day go through the Queue: 500 each for Centre Court, No.1 Court and No.2 Court. Centre Court is excluded for the last four days, so the number drops to about 1,000 once the tournament gets serious.
One ticket per person, non-transferable.
You need a myWimbledon account and the app before you arrive. It is scanned at the point of sale. Turning up without it wastes the entire night.
A Queue Card does not guarantee entry. You get one when you join the back of the Queue, you must keep it, and if the grounds reach capacity you may only get in as others leave.
The camping rules are stricter than most people expect, and all of them are published:
Tents may hold a maximum of two people, and one person must be in the tent at all times. Gazebos are banned outright.
You may not leave the Queue for more than 30 minutes, for refreshments, toilets or anything else.
No barbecues, camping stoves or fires. No smoking or vaping in the Queue at all. No music or ball games after 10pm.
Takeaway deliveries must be collected at the Wimbledon Park Road gate only, and must arrive before 10pm.
Queue Cards may be checked at the park entrance from 10pm, and unattended items will be removed and may be destroyed by the police.
Of the three pedestrian ways in, Wimbledon Park Road is open 24 hours, while the Revelstoke Road and Home Park Road gates run 6.30am to 10pm.
There is a dedicated accessibility waiting area at the north end of AELTC Wimbledon Park, reached through the gate at Car Park 10, with one carer or companion permitted.
The Wimbledon ballot, and what losing it gets you
The Wimbledon ballot for 2027 has closed. The Club states it plainly on its own ballot page, so anyone still being sold an entry to it is selling you nothing. The routes below are what remain.
One application per household, per email address and per myWimbledon account. The Club says plainly that this is because the event is oversubscribed.
You cannot ask for a particular day, court or seat. Allocation is automated, from the best tickets available at the time.
Losing the ballot is not nothing. Unsuccessful applicants are granted access to the returns shop, where tickets may be bought in the run up to The Championships. That is a published consolation and it is rarely mentioned.
The 2027 Championships run from 28 June to 11 July, and it is the 150th. The Club is marking a hundred and fifty years of The Championships that fortnight, which is worth knowing before you decide how hard to chase a ticket: demand for a landmark year is not the same as demand for an ordinary one.
Register with myWimbledon and set your preferences to Tickets and Ballot if you want to be told when the next one opens, since the ballot is the one route with no walk-up equivalent.
Debentures, the only tickets that may legally be resold
There are 2,520 debenture seats on Centre Court and 1,250 on No.1 Court.
Each debenture covers five years of Championships, with a premium seat on the relevant court, plus the use of exclusive restaurants and bars inside the grounds.
The important part for everyone else is the legal position. Aside from debenture tickets authorised for resale, tickets must not be sold, transferred or advertised for sale or transfer, online or anywhere else, and any ticket advertised that way is void.
So a Wimbledon ticket offered on a resale site is either a debenture, or it is worthless. That is the single most useful sentence for anyone tempted by a secondary market listing in June.
The other routes to Wimbledon tickets
Hospitality is through Keith Prowse, described by the Club as the exclusive Official Hospitality Partner, a relationship it dates to four decades and counting. It is the expensive certainty.
Qualifying is the cheap one nobody talks about. Held the week before The Championships, it decides the final main draw places in the gentlemen’s and ladies’ singles. It is professional tennis, a week early, without the ballot.
Newmarket Holidays is the package route. The Club lists it as the exclusive seller of short breaks for the last weekend of The Championships, two or three days, each with a hotel and a reserved seat on No.1 Court.
What to know
£15 for Centre Court, £10 for No.1 and No.2. From the resale kiosk in Parkside, with a Grounds Pass, between 3pm and 9pm.
Download the app and make a myWimbledon account before you go anywhere. It is required in the Queue and required for resale.
Register for resale the moment you are inside. Registration closes at 9pm or when capacity fills, and the queue is virtual so it costs you nothing to be in it.
A two person tent, with somebody in it. No gazebo, no stove, no cigarettes, and no wandering off for more than half an hour.
2027 runs 28 June to 11 July, and it is the 150th, so treat every queue estimate you have read as optimistic.
Do not buy from a resale site. Unless it is a debenture, the ticket is void by the Club’s own terms.
Everything here was taken from the All England Club’s own published pages and rechecked on 28 September 2026. The ballot, Queue and resale pages describe the 2026 Championships arrangements alongside the 2027 dates, so treat the operational detail as the most recent published position rather than a guarantee for next summer, and check before you travel.
Where to go next
The best time to visit London covers what else is happening in late June and early July, which is the busiest fortnight of the London summer for exactly this reason.
Where to stay in London matters more than usual during The Championships, and what the tube costs and the Travelcard cover getting out to SW19 and back.
London dress codes covers which rooms in this city still expect a jacket, which is a live question for anyone going the hospitality route.
The best restaurants and afternoon tea cover the rest of a summer day in London, and the best parks cover the free version of sitting outside watching something.
Questions we get asked
How much are Wimbledon tickets on the day?
Show Court tickets from the daily Queue are sold at one per person, with around 500 each for Centre Court, No.1 Court and No.2 Court, though Centre Court is excluded for the last four days. Separately, returned Show Court tickets are sold inside the grounds from the Ticket Resale Kiosk at £15 for Centre Court and £10 for No.1 and No.2 Courts, which requires you to already hold a Grounds Pass.
Can you still get Wimbledon tickets after the ballot closes?
Yes, by six other routes. The daily Queue sells premium tickets on the day of play. The Ticket Resale Kiosk sells returned Show Court seats from £10. Unsuccessful ballot applicants are granted access to the returns shop before The Championships. Keith Prowse sells official hospitality. The Qualifying Competition the week before needs no ballot at all. And Newmarket Holidays sells last weekend breaks with a hotel and a No.1 Court seat.
How does the Wimbledon Queue work?
You join the back of the Queue in Wimbledon Park, usually the evening before, and are issued a numbered, dated Queue Card which you must keep. Only Queue Card holders can buy tickets, and the card does not guarantee entry because the grounds have a capacity limit. You also need the Wimbledon app and a myWimbledon account, which is scanned when you pay. Tents are limited to two people with one person present at all times, and gazebos are banned.
When is Wimbledon 2027?
28 June to 11 July 2027, and it is the 150th Championships, which the All England Club is marketing as a once-in-a-generation year. The Qualifying Competition is held the week before The Championships. The public ballot for 2027 has already closed, so the remaining routes are the Queue, the resale kiosk, the returns shop, hospitality, debentures and the Newmarket Holidays packages.
Can you buy Wimbledon tickets from a resale site?
No, and the ticket will not work. The All England Club states that aside from debenture tickets authorised for resale, tickets must not be sold, transferred or advertised for sale or transfer online or elsewhere, and that any ticket advertised that way is void. Debentures are the only legally transferable Wimbledon tickets, of which there are 2,520 on Centre Court and 1,250 on No.1 Court.
What is a Wimbledon debenture?
A five year interest giving the holder a premium reserved seat on Centre Court or No.1 Court for each of those Championships, plus access to exclusive restaurants and bars within the grounds. There are 2,520 Centre Court debenture seats and 1,250 on No.1 Court. They are also the only Wimbledon tickets that may lawfully be resold, which is why debenture seats appear on secondary markets and ordinary tickets should not.
Written by Robert J Wills, no. 145 in the guide.
Last checked 28 September 2026 against the venues' own published information. Nobody pays to appear here and we take no bookings.
