ConFuzzled returns to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole from 28 May to 1 June 2027 with "XXTREME Racing", a motorsport-themed edition fronted by mascots Brok, Mel and Dylan. As the UK's largest furry convention, it again runs over the late-May bank holiday weekend across its multi-hotel NEC footprint, keeping the residential room-and-badge lottery, stage productions, and charity fundraising that define the event. The 2027 charity partner and Community Guests had not been announced at the time of writing.
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All four days of convention events and a ConBook. A T-shirt can be added for 25 pounds.
Everything in the Standard ticket plus a T-shirt and, in the convention's words, lots of additional goodies as a thank you for the extra support.
One day, with a ConBook. Day tickets are non-residential, so they carry no hotel option.
Two days, with a ConBook. Non-residential.
Three days, with a ConBook. Non-residential.
≈ $ figures are approximate US dollars, rates as of 9 Oct 2026 from ExchangeRate-API open access.
Advance registration is required; there are no door tickets. Registration closed at 20:00 UK time on September 21, 2026, when the hotel lottery closed, and reopens for non-residential and day tickets once the lottery results are released. Hotel rooms at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, the Crowne Plaza and the Holiday Inn cost extra, priced per person for four nights with breakfast. A £3 booking fee is added to every registration at payment.
Earlier prices
Opening registration window, until 21 Sep 2026
The three-day day ticket was listed at £105 when registration opened; every other price is unchanged.
Operating out of the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) complex provides strong logistics:
Curated stays near Hilton Birmingham Metropole, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
CFz uses the NEC hotel grid:
A year-by-year record of this convention
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Earlier prices
Opening registration window, until 21 Sep 2026
The three-day day ticket was listed at £105 when registration opened; every other price is unchanged.
ConFuzzled 2026 ran May 22-26 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole under "The Musical" theme, with artist Nyhgault and musician Regdeh as Community Guests. ConFuzzled had not published an official closing attendance figure at time of writing (2025's official figure was 3,179). The 2026 charity beneficiary was Tiny Paws MCR, a Manchester-based small-animal rescue (final total pending). The weekend included an officially scheduled fire-alarm test on Wednesday 27 May, and a mid-convention safety advisory from the convention asking attendees to travel in groups and avoid visibly fursuiting outside the venue near Resorts World.
ConFuzzled 2025 drew 3,179 attendees to the Hilton Birmingham Metropole with the "Mel's Fashion Week" theme. The convention raised over 41,000 GBP for Saints Sled Dog Rescue, with Hexi and Hiyu as Guests of Honor.
CFz 2024 brought 2,881 attendees under the "Dylan's Ocean Odyssey" theme. The event raised over 39,000 GBP for charity, continuing the convention's strong fundraising tradition.
Edition cancelled
The convention did not run. The organisers cancelled it in late March 2020 and refunded registrations; a separate Virtual ConFuzzled was streamed over the same weekend, and the convention itself returned in 2021.
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2027
May 28 - Jun 1
Theme
XXTREME Racing
2026
May 22-26
Theme
The Musical
2025
May 23-27
Theme
Mel's Fashion Week
2024
May 24-28
Theme
Dylan's Ocean Odyssey
2023
May 26-30
Theme
Brok in the Multiverse
2022
May 27-31
Theme
A World Reborn
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3 quirks & policies that don't fit the highlights grid.
Residential lottery: ConFuzzled sells a room+badge bundle, not a badge
Almost no other major furry convention sells registration the way ConFuzzled does. The main route in is a residential package that bundles your badge with your Hilton room for the four convention nights, and the whole pool is allocated by a two-week lottery. Submitting on day 1 of the window has the same odds as submitting on day 14, which deliberately killed the older first-come-first-served race that locked out attendees in the wrong timezones.
First UK furry con to ban AI-generated work and NFTs in 2023
On 19 January 2023, well before AI-image policy became standard at furry conventions, ConFuzzled formally banned AI-generated artwork, AI-generated written material, and NFTs from both the Dealers'' Den and the Art Show. The stated rationale was legal-framework ambiguity, not aesthetic preference, and the rule pre-dated similar moves at most peer UK and European cons by 12 to 18 months.
Three-hotel 2026 footprint with a CFz-run inter-hotel shuttle
CFz 2026 runs across three hotels rather than one: the Hilton Birmingham Metropole (main, ConFuzzled-purchased room block), the Crowne Plaza NEC (ConFuzzled-purchased room block, on Pendigo Way at B40 1PS), and new for 2026 the Arden Hotel & Leisure Club (announced 27 August 2025 as a negotiated discount code, not a room block).
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