More than 2.5 million tickets, some for pool matches priced as low as A$40 ($26.04), will be available for the 2027\u00a0Rugby\u00a0World\u00a0Cup\u00a0in Australia, which organisers say is the most for any edition of the global showpiece.<\/p>\n
World\u00a0Rugby\u00a0are determined that the expanded 24-team tournament be accessible to as many people as possible and more than a million tickets for every stage will be priced at under A$100.<\/p>\n
At the other end of the scale, those who want to guarantee their access to tickets can purchase one of 2,027 \u201cSuperfan passes\u201d, which for A$750 will entitle them to buy tickets for any of the 52 matches, including the final.<\/p>\n
Those passes will go on sale next week, while other fans will soon be able to sign up for a closed pre-sale of tickets to take place early next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can proudly say that this 11th edition will be the most accessible \u2026\u00a0Rugby\u00a0World\u00a0Cup\u00a0ever with a range of pricing options,\u201d Brett Robinson, the chairman of\u00a0World\u00a0Rugby, told a news conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis special event is for everyone, from families across Australia, families within our seven host cities, for fans travelling from Paris, Buenos Aires and Tokyo, because\u00a0rugby\u2018s biggest stage should be open for all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans were required to fork out A$149 to A$649 for tickets to this week\u2019s third test between Australia and the British & Irish Lions at Sydney\u2019s Stadium Australia.<\/p>\n
Australia co-hosted the inaugural\u00a0World\u00a0Cup\u00a0with New Zealand in 1987 and the 2003 tournament alone. But\u00a0rugby\u00a0has struggled for fans and attention in the country over the last decade or so as the Wallabies have struggled on the pitch.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur mission is bold,\u201d Robinson added. \u201cWe want to reignite Australia\u2019s love of our game. We want to bring people together from around the\u00a0world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to shine a light on our sport\u2019s enduring values, those of respect, passion, integrity, solidarity, because\u00a0rugby, at its best, is a powerful force. It changes lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 2.5 million tickets, some for pool matches priced as low as A$40 ($26.04), will be available…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-33307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}