Lord’s (MCC)

What you get

Lord’s debentures cost £4,000 to £19,000 for the right to buy tickets for a designated seat during the 2027–2030 seasons, plus free entry on selected other days. Match tickets cost extra at face value. Most of the subscription is a 75-year, interest-free loan, scheduled for repayment in 2101.

Each debenture gives its holder the right to buy one face-value ticket for a designated seat on the main match days defined in the offer as Debenture Match Days. MCC also chooses free-entry days, called Other Match Days. A debenture does not make you an MCC member.

Which matches count

The main match days cover defined Tests, one-day internationals, international T20s, The Hundred, Middlesex T20 Blast and further MCC designations. One-day and international T20 categories exclude exhibition matches and ICC World Cup, Champions Trophy and ICC T20 matches. Tests exclude exhibitions but may include an ICC World Test Championship Final. MCC promises no particular match count, touring team or programme.

Free-entry days use different areas

On free-entry days, the debenture seating areas are closed. The pass admits holders to the Members’ Friends’ Enclosures and the Pavilion, subject to dress rules. MCC can change which days qualify. Its examples include final or reserve Test days, Middlesex fixtures other than T20 Blast, MCC matches, and the Club and Village competition finals.

Restaurant reservations depend on the scheme

Grand Stand Bronze includes bar access but no restaurant reservation. The other four schemes include reservations after holders buy that day’s match ticket and notify MCC. The benefit covers a reservation; ask MCC for catering prices and arrangements. Bar access remains subject to capacity and licensing restrictions.

Seats and facilities can change

MCC assigns a designated seat to each debenture. It can relocate holders within the debenture seating areas, including another stand, for operational, safety or other reasons in the terms. It can also change restaurant or bar allocations; those changes do not create a right to compensation.

Tickets cannot be resold

An individual holding several debentures may give their additional tickets to guests without payment, subject to the terms. Corporate holders may provide tickets without payment to their employees, officers or guests. These exceptions do not permit ticket resale.

Other fixtures may have a booking window

Other cricket matches at Lord’s, called Additional Matches in the offer, can carry a preferential window to buy one face-value ticket per debenture when MCC controls allocation and the relevant stand opens. Non-cricket events are outside this category. Holders must act within MCC’s announced window.

What it takes

You need at least one debenture.

MCC allocates debentures at its discretion. Priority runs from holders of the eligible earlier MCC debenture issues listed in the offer to Full Members, Associate Members, Candidates and Affiliates, then other applicants. Membership is not required.

The initial application limit is eight debentures, or twelve for Grand Stand Bronze; MCC may increase the limits.

The debenture

Instrument

75-year unsecured, interest-free debenture

Issuer

Marylebone Cricket Club

Repayment due

1 November 2101

Repayment terms

MCC can repay the nominal amount early at its discretion, or on a resolution to dissolve the Club. An unclaimed repayment can be extinguished six years after it becomes payable. If a claim reaches MCC before then, or MCC knows of a genuine entitlement dispute, that period pauses until resolution or withdrawal.

Transfers

Individuals cannot sell or transfer a debenture during their lifetime. On death, it may pass through their estate to the entitled beneficiary. MCC may also recognise a corporate successor after a genuine business sale or reorganisation; that exception cannot be used to trade debentures.

Compton and Edrich — Issue 66

£19,000

Repayable loan

£17,860

Premium

£950

VAT

£190

Instalments

£11,500 after acceptance, by bank transfer
£7,500 by Direct Debit around 29 October 2027, subject to MCC’s payment conditions

Balcony seats behind the bowler’s arm, facing the Pavilion, in the Compton or Edrich Stand. Restaurant reservations use Compton’s or The Edrich.

Mound Stand Gold — Issue 67

£13,000

Repayable loan

£12,220

Premium

£650

VAT

£130

Instalments

£8,000 after acceptance, by bank transfer
£5,000 by Direct Debit around 29 October 2027, subject to MCC’s payment conditions

Upper Mound Stand seats with restaurant reservations in the stand. The offer names The Terrace and Centurions, both open-air venues on its top level.

Mound Stand Silver — Issue 68

£9,000

Repayable loan

£8,460

Premium

£450

VAT

£90

Instalments

£5,500 after acceptance, by bank transfer
£3,500 by Direct Debit around 29 October 2027, subject to MCC’s payment conditions

Upper Mound Stand seats with restaurant reservations around the Ground. The offer names Fitzgerald’s in the Mound Stand among the venues.

Grand Stand Silver — Issue 69

£7,500

Repayable loan

£7,050

Premium

£375

VAT

£75

Instalments

£4,500 after acceptance, by bank transfer
£3,000 by Direct Debit around 29 October 2027, subject to MCC’s payment conditions

Upper Grand Stand seats, with a restaurant reservation in the Two Seven Eight Restaurant.

Grand Stand Bronze — Issue 70

£4,000

Repayable loan

£3,760

Premium

£200

VAT

£40

Instalments

£2,600 after acceptance, by bank transfer
£1,400 by Direct Debit around 29 October 2027, subject to MCC’s payment conditions

Upper Grand Stand seats and bar access. This scheme has no restaurant-reservation entitlement.

How to get one

From the issuer 

Apply directly through MCC. The five prices include the loan, non-repayable premium and VAT. Pay in full or use the stated instalments. Follow MCC’s payment instructions after acceptance. MCC may notify a different second-instalment date in writing, and a VAT-rate change may change that payment. Applications close 31 March 2027.

Other conditions

Residency restrictions

MCC will not accept a transaction where the offer is unlawful in the applicant’s jurisdiction. The document asks overseas applicants to observe their local restrictions; it does not establish a country-by-country eligibility list.

How to claim

MCC’s register is the definitive ownership record. Certificates are electronic. The offer document describes a Debenture pass for free-entry days but does not specify how match tickets or passes will be delivered.

1. 1. Start with MCC’s Premium Seating TeamRead the full offer and contact the team about the schemes and application process. You do not need to be an MCC member to apply; eligible existing holders and members get priority.
2. 2. Complete the retail application checksEligible retail investors can apply. You declare your investor category and complete MCC’s assessment of whether you understand the offer. MCC gives you a personalised risk warning; you confirm that you wish to proceed and wait through the required 24-hour cooling-off period before receiving the application form.
3. 3. Apply through MCC’s electronic platformSubmit the form by 31 March 2027, unless MCC closes earlier. Applications can remain open after the 24 February ticket deadline, so ask which 2027 tickets remain available if applying late. Submission is normally irrevocable unless MCC consents or the terms provide an exception. If you apply for two or more debentures but receive only one, you are not bound to proceed: reply in writing within seven days of MCC’s letter if you want to accept it.
4. 4. Pay the subscriptionPay in full or choose the two-instalment option. An accepted application commits you to the full price. Missing an instalment can suspend or end ticket rights and leave the unpaid amount recoverable.
5. 5. Choose and pay for each season’s ticketsMCC sends the 2027 invitation by 1 February, then by 10 January in later seasons, unless it sets a later date. Request tickets by 24 February 2027, then 3 February in later seasons, or MCC’s later deadline. If you miss it, MCC may sell the ticket without paying you the proceeds. For schemes with restaurant rights, request reservations by 24 February before each season.
6. 6. Keep your holder details currentTell the Premium Seating Team about address changes and check the match, entry and dress instructions before attending.

Lord’s debenture information 

Dates

Record date

MCC’s register records the holder. The offer document gives seasonal ticket-election deadlines rather than a separate registered-holder record date.

Claim by

24 February 2027
For 2027, elect to buy tickets by 24 February; later seasons use 3 February. MCC may set a later date. These are ticket deadlines, separate from the debenture application deadline of 31 March 2027.

Benefit rights from

1 November 2026

Benefit rights until

31 October 2030

Practical notes

Renewal requires another payment

Keeping ticket rights under a future scheme requires a new payment while this 75-year loan remains outstanding.

If access is disrupted

Events outside MCC’s control can remove its obligation to compensate holders for disrupted access under the terms. Refunds for purchased match tickets follow the ticket-sale conditions.