Parking at Wembley Stadium: the £12.50 charge most drivers miss

Before anything else: the ULEZ charge

Wembley Stadium has been inside Transport for London's Ultra Low Emission Zone since the expansion on 29 August 2023. If your vehicle does not meet the Euro emission standards, driving there costs £12.50 per day on top of whatever you pay to park.

This is the cost people from outside London do not see coming. The zone runs 24 hours a day, every day except 25 December, and the charge is not tied to event times — it applies whenever the vehicle is moving inside the zone.

There is a trap in the timing. The charging day runs midnight to midnight, so an overnight trip can attract two charges: one up to 23:59 and another from 00:01 when it resets. If you are driving home after a late finish, budget for that.

Check your registration on TfL's ULEZ vehicle checker before you decide to drive. Around 90% of vehicles outside London already comply, so for most people the answer is nothing — but you want to know which group you are in before you set off, not afterwards.

Use the official car parks, and book early

The venue's own guidance is direct: only use official stadium car parks, and book early because they fill up. Wembley's official parking is arranged through its own provider rather than a general parking marketplace.

Booking ahead matters more here than at a smaller venue. A stadium event puts tens of thousands of cars into a residential area at once, and the spaces that exist are finite.

Planning the whole night, not just this? The The Wembley Stadium Survival Kit covers the route, the food window, the meeting point and three ways to leave.

Why the venue tells you to avoid pop-up car parks

On event days, private car parks appear around the stadium. Wembley warns against them for three specific reasons, and they are worth reading before you take a cheaper space from someone waving you in.

They probably do not hold the correct insurance, so if something happens to your car and they are at fault, you are not covered. They are not patrolled, and the venue says plainly that car crime can and does happen. And poor lighting makes them hard to navigate for both cars and people.

A saving of a few pounds against an uninsured space in an unlit, unpatrolled lot is not a saving. This is the one place on a concert night where the cheap option is genuinely the wrong one.

Street parking is not an option

Parking on the street around Wembley is reserved for local residents, and Brent Council operates event-day parking restrictions across the area. This is not a grey area you can chance — the restrictions exist precisely because 90,000 people arrive at once.

Check Brent's event-day parking page for the current restricted zone before assuming any street space is available.

Blue badge parking

Accessible parking at Wembley is booked in advance through the venue rather than turned up for. The stadium publishes access facilities and a separate travel guide for guests with access requirements, and booking the space is a separate step from booking the ticket.

Do this early. Accessible spaces are the first to go and there is no on-the-day equivalent.

The honest alternative: do not drive

Wembley has three stations within walking distance and the venue's own guidance leads with public transport. For most people arriving from inside London, driving costs more, takes longer and ends with the same crowd leaving at once.

If you are coming from further out, National Express is the official coach supplier to Wembley and runs a Wembley Express service to events — which removes both the parking problem and the ULEZ question in one decision.

Checked against the venue's own parking page on 20 August 2026. Charges, providers and restrictions change; confirm yours before you travel.