Rod Stewart confirmed to headline Glastonbury after career announcement

Rod Stewart will be taking to the stage at Glastonbury next year (Image: GETTY)

Glastonbury Festival have confirmed that Rod Stewart will be headlining their Sunday teatime legend slot for next year.

The news comes just days after the 79 year old announced his intention to "stop playing large-scale world tours" at the end of 2025.

The Scottish singer will be following in the footsteps of Dolly Parton, Barry Gibb, Shania Twain and Kylie Minogue.

Speaking about headlining the event, Rod said he was "proud, ready and more than able to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury".

The last time Rod Stewart played at Glastonbury in 2002, tickets cost £97 each. Ticket-holders who are attending the 2025 festival will have paid £373.50.

Rod headlined the festival 13 years ago, with Coldplay and Stereophonics headlining the other days during the festival. This is the first time Rod will be taking over the Sunday afternoon legends slot.

Glastonbury 2025 tickets were quickly snapped up last week. Fans were "randomly assigned a place in the queue" when tickets went live, replacing the usual system of refreshing the holding page.

However, within half an hour, all coach tickets were sold out, leading to widespread criticism of the new system. Many disgruntled festival-goers took to social media to vent their frustrations, with one even directly addressing festival organiser Emily Eavis.

The individual tweeted: "@emilyeavis why oh why have you input this system. Worse than before. Punters hate it being out of their control. It's horrendous."

The iconic music festival is scheduled to take place from June 25 to 29, and speculation is already rife about who the headline acts will be.

Tickets are priced at £373.50, plus a £5 booking fee, while the cost of the coach journey will range from £47 to £160, depending on where festival-goers are travelling from and whether they're booking a single or return journey to Worthy Farm.

Emily has attributed the 5 per cent increase in ticket prices to the rising costs of running the jam-packed festival, which attracts over 200,000 revellers each year.

This year it was expected that an even bigger rush for tickets would occur, as 2026 has been designated a "fallow year", meaning Worthy Farm will be closed to allow the site to recover, reports the Mirror.