{"id":469829,"date":"2025-10-03T01:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T01:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T01:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T01:14:30","slug":"scots-get-priority-in-commonwealth-games-ticket-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469829\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots get priority in Commonwealth Games ticket sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who live in Glasgow will have priority when tickets go on sale for next year&#8217;s Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers said those with a Glasgow postcode will be the first to access pre-sale tickets for the 2026 events, before fans from the UK and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,000 athletes from 74 nations and territories will compete across 10 sports and six para sports at Glasgow 2026 next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Fans who want to buy through the pre-sale have until 23:59 on 16 October to pre-register for an opportunity to book early, with 500,000 tickets available across the games.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Gymnast Shannon Archer, a brown-haired woman with her hair in a tight bun, smiles at the camera as ahe holds up her bronze medal and a Birmingham bull mascot after being presented with her medal\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0b545b934d212094c4651944014c828b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spectators can book medal events at witness history &#8211; like Shannon Archer becoming the first Scottish gymnast to win a medal in women&#8217;s artistic gymnastics at Birmingham 2022 [Getty Images]<\/p>\n<p>George Black, chairman of Glasgow 2026, said: &#8220;We know demand will be unprecedented, which is why we are announcing our pre-sales for Glasgow and Scotland, giving local communities priority access.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know the crowd in Scotland will create an electric atmosphere and we can&#8217;t wait for everybody to be part of the Games in Glasgow next summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the pre-sale will open to pre-registered people in the Glasgow area with G postcodes on Tuesday 21 October until Friday 24 October.<\/p>\n<p>The second phase will be open to anyone with a Scottish postcode and will give them access from Friday 24 October, with the pre-sale two phase closing on Monday 27 October.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This will be followed by an exclusive final pre-sale for the rest of the UK and fans worldwide who have registered with a Glasgow 2026 account &#8211; from noon on Monday 27 October until noon on Wednesday 29 October.<\/p>\n<p>The full general public ticket on sale will then open on Thursday 30 October.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket prices start at \u00a326 for medal sessions and \u00a317 for non-medal sessions, with concession tickets available from \u00a312.<\/p>\n<p>The games, which will run from July 23 until August 2 next year, will take place across four venues &#8211; Scotstoun Stadium, the Scottish Event Campus (SEC), the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and Arena and Tollcross International Swimming Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who wants to pre-register can do so via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgow2026.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:glasgow2026.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">glasgow2026.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759454070_844_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People who live in Glasgow will have priority when tickets go on sale for next year&#8217;s Commonwealth Games.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[156455,748,18527,156214,918,4884,156215,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-469829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-birmingham-games","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-commonwealth-games","11":"tag-george-black","12":"tag-glasgow","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-pre-sale","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115307588750421920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}