How to get into the Valencia Half

Valencia Half ballot and results

The public ballot opened at 11:00 CET on November 10, 2026 and closes at 10:59 CET on November 16. Entering is free, but a €5 hold goes on an active bank card for 15 days and is then released; without the hold you are not in the draw. You give your ID or passport number, which cannot be changed, and each person may enter once. Groups of up to 3 are drawn together with the same odds as single entries.

The draw takes place before a notary on November 17, and emails go out to everyone on November 18. Runners who are drawn have 7 days, until 11:00 on November 25, to register and pay €80, or the place goes to the waiting list. Runners without a Spanish RFEA, FACV or Carnet del Corredor Plus licence add a €4 one-day licence.

The race does not publish how many people enter the ballot, so no success rate is available. For 2027 there are 11,405 ballot places, down from about 12,400 for 2026.

Valencia Half returning runners

Runners who held an active 2026 bib in their own name on race day, whether they ran or not, could register first, from 11:00 on November 5 to 10:59 on November 9, 2026. Bibs that were transferred, refunded or cancelled for injury do not qualify. Returning runners took 13,595 of the 25,000 places for 2027, up from 12,599 for 2026.

The first 10,000 bibs sold cost €40 and the rest €80. Under first come, first served the race sold out six editions in a row through 2024, that year about nine months before race day. It moved to the loyalty phase plus ballot for 2026.

Valencia Half waiting list, transfers and refunds

Unsuccessful ballot entrants form the waiting list in the order they registered; new names are not accepted. Places come from runners who withdraw. Each offer arrives by email with at least 24 hours to pay €100 plus any day licence, and the list stops allocating at 23:59 on September 30, 2027.

Returning-runner bibs can be passed to a person of the holder's choice with a code, for a €5 fee, until September 30. Ballot and waiting-list bibs can only go back to the waiting list, which gives the holder 100% back minus €5 once the next runner pays. From October 1 to 17 only start-box changes are possible, for €25, and from October 18 nothing changes.

Withdrawal for injury or serious illness, with a medical report, refunds 75% until August 1 and 50% until September 30, minus €5. Pregnancy refunds 100% until September 30. The optional Refund Service, 10% of the fee and bought only at registration, returns 80% for any reason until October 17. No entry moves to another year, and a refunded runner loses the returning-runner phase for the next edition.

Valencia Half tour operators

Bibs for official tour operators sit outside the 25,000 public places, and operators keep selling packages with a guaranteed bib after the race sells out, while they have stock. Registration still finishes on the official site in the runner's name. The race lists 20 official operators; anyone else selling bibs is unauthorized and can be reported to travel@valenciaciudaddelrunning.com. Operator packages add race-day transfers for hotels more than 2 km from the start, late checkout to 4:30 p.m. and an early runner breakfast.

Operators sell the bib with travel, not alone. Ali Schneider Marathonreisen charged €105 for the 2026 entry, non-refundable, with at least two hotel nights or travel, from €415 per person for 2 nights in a double at NH Las Artes, and only to runners with a German postal address. Schulz Sportreisen lists 2027 at €85 for entry with 4 nights from €1,060 per person, bookable until July 25, 2027 unless sold out.

No operator on the official list covers Canada. Marathon Tours & Travel covers the UK, US and Australia but does not publish its Valencia Half price. Destiny2Sport and Fitness International Travel sell Valencia Half packages in the US but are not on the race's official list.

Valencia Half charity places

From 2027 realbuzz is the race's exclusive charity programme partner. Its 2027 listing names Brain Tumour Ireland, Sandy Bear, The Myton Hospices, Far Away Friends, WaterAid, Better Lives Foundation, Pieta, the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, Heart Heroes and The Skye High Foundation. You reserve a place with a refundable holding deposit, must reach 75% of the target 2 to 3 months before the race, and get the deposit back at 100%. Places are first come, first served, and the listing showed a waitlist in November 2026.

Targets are set by each charity. Spinal Research lists a £29 registration fee and a £440 minimum. NDSS in the US asks a $25 team fee and $825, with half due August 6, 2027 and the rest by October 26, 2027, but its runners buy their own entry. Any runner can also tick a box at registration to give €3 or more to the race's charity of the year.

Valencia and the SuperHalfs

Valencia closes the six SuperHalfs Originals, after Lisbon (March 7, 2027), Prague (April 3), Berlin (April 4), Copenhagen (September 19) and Cardiff (October 3). A free SuperPassport records each finish, and all six in any order, with no time limit, earn the SuperMedal at no cost at the finish of the last race. Results count from Prague on April 2, 2022.

The passport gives no guaranteed entry, so passport holders enter the ballot. Existing SuperVouchers, sold only in 2023 and valid 36 months from the holder's first completed race, skip the ballot and can register at any point in 2027. Back on Track emails a time-limited registration link to runners with 2 or more finishes in a series and no race in it for 2 years or more; it is automatic, longest wait first, and you pay the race fee.

SuperHalfs Europa starts in 2027 with Napoli, Warsaw, Belgrade, Vienna, Riga and Stockholm. It has its own medal and results do not combine across the two series.