Ashes tickets

Every Ashes Test is sold by the ground that hosts it, on its own ticketing site. The order is broadly similar from one venue to the next, members before the public and a ballot before the general sale, but the timetables differ and the five grounds are at very different stages.

Trent Bridge, first Test

Nottinghamshire members bought first, in windows by tenure on 3, 6 and 12 August 2026. A free ballot ran from 2 to 29 September, with a window for We Are England Cricket Supporters on 23 September; winners could buy from 6 October and the general sale opened on 14 October. General admission for days one to four is now gone. A few seats remain in members-only areas (the Pavilion, Hound Road Lower and the centre of the Radcliffe Road Middle tier), one ticket per 2027 Nottinghamshire membership, and some day five tickets are still available.

Lord's, second Test

MCC sold public-stand seats through a free open ballot: no card details were needed and every entrant had an equal chance. It closed at 6pm on Monday 26 October 2026, and each applicant can buy at most two tickets for one day of the Test. Inside Lord's Premium subscribers were given a first-come, first-served window from 30 October to 3 November, with 500 pairs per Ashes day. First-round winners can buy from 17 November, unclaimed tickets go to a second round, and the general sale opens on 10 December. Premium seating and hospitality are not sold through the ballot, and MCC members have their own Friends' Enclosures ballot.

Edgbaston, third Test

Warwickshire members had the first windows, starting with 1882 Full Club members on 3 September and followed by Next Gen, B5 White Ball, Priority Club, Bears Pass and PHX Pass holders, alongside buyers of the September 2026 England v Pakistan Test. The free ballot ran from 2 to 29 September, winners bought from 1 October, and days one to four sold out. Any returns go first to club members and unsuccessful ballot entrants, and the club runs an online ticket exchange. Day five is on sale at £25 plus a £2.50 booking fee.

Utilita Bowl, fourth Test

Hampshire members were served by tenure from 8 September, then the Priority Club from 21 September, before ballot winners bought between 2 and 14 October. Days one to four had sold out by 13 October, so the general sale that followed offered only a small number of day five tickets. The transfer function in the Utilita Bowl app is the official way to pass a ticket on.

Kia Oval, fifth Test

Surrey's free 2027 ballot is open until 11.59pm on 15 November, and Surrey members who renew before 10 November get a priority window. Results are due on 23 November, winners can buy from 24 November, and a general sale, subject to availability, starts on 8 December.

A Test series has no final, but the five Tests do not draw the same demand. The two London Tests, at Lord's and the Kia Oval, were the last to run public ballots, and at the latest check their resale listings generally started higher than those for the other three grounds. The Oval stages the closing Test of the series, from Thursday 29 July 2027.

At the other end of the scale, the fourth day at Trent Bridge and the Edgbaston days started lower on the resale market. Day five of each Test is not in the table: where it is still on sale, the ground sells it directly, at £25 for an adult at Trent Bridge, Lord's and Edgbaston.

If you can choose your day, the official routes still open are worth trying first. Entering the Oval ballot costs nothing until 15 November, Lord's opens its general sale on 10 December, and both grounds charge their own prices, which are usually below resale.

Each row of the table is one day of one Test, with the lowest resale listing seen on Hellotickets. Across the 20 days listed, prices start at £286.

Zone names follow each ground's own stands, so check them against the ground's seating map before you buy: the Mound, Grand, Edrich and Compton Stands at Lord's; the Eric Hollies, Raglan, Stanley Barnes and RES Wyatt Stands at Edgbaston; the William Clarke and Acrisure Stands at Trent Bridge, where some listings only give a block code. At the Oval, older listings may still call the SSE Energy Solutions Stand by its former name, the Galadari Stand.

Sellers set their own prices, which can sit far above the ground's face value, and the final price is shown before you pay. Check each listing's delivery terms. Hellotickets says tickets are sent "as soon as we receive them from the seller — sometimes up to 1–2 days before the event".