{"id":601057,"date":"2026-09-15T12:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601057\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:26:11","slug":"a-special-place-warriors-tickets-sell-out-for-eden-park-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601057\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A special place’: Warriors tickets sell out for Eden Park final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tickets to the Warriors’ must-win NRL final against the Knights at Eden Park on Sunday have sold out.<\/p>\n

General tickets went on sale at 10am on Tuesday, with more than 22,000 seats already snapped up in a Warriors’ club pre-sale the day before.<\/p>\n

The Warriors’ first preference had been to play at Mt Smart Stadium, where their home support has been through the roof, but the governing body moved the venue to Eden Park<\/a> following Saturday night’s 26-16 qualifying final loss to the Dolphins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eden Park has a capacity double that of Mount Smart Stadium, which offers the NRL a likely much larger profit. Sunday’s match will likely set a record for the largest-ever rugby league crowd in New Zealand history, besting the Kiwis’ 1988 World Cup final loss to the Kangaroos.<\/p>\n

The Warriors face the seventh-ranked Knights<\/a> after beating them 46-32 in round 25. A win would take the Warriors into a preliminary final in week three in Australia.<\/p>\n

Warriors coach Andrew Webster said the players had been made to feel at home in unfamiliar surroundings.<\/p>\n

“Love it. Obviously, a lot of history, a special place. They’ve made us feel so welcome, giving us an extra day to train here. It’s awesome.”<\/p>\n

Webster urged fans yet to buy tickets to move quickly.<\/p>\n

“If you haven’t got your tickets, get them, because I think it’s about to sell out,” he said. “I think there’s about 1000 tickets to go from what I got told on the phone 10 minutes ago. We get to come here with the biggest crowd in Warriors history on New Zealand soil.”<\/p>\n

Down to 11 men at one stage and hit by injuries to Leka Halasima and Jackson Ford, the Warriors now face a must-win elimination final against the Knights at Eden Park. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

They come into the rematch with fresh injury concerns after centre Leka Halasima went down with a hamstring injury in the warm-up before Saturday’s loss.<\/p>\n

“It was a hamstring in the warm-up, nothing related to what he’s been having which was an ankle injury,” coach Andrew Webster said. <\/p>\n

“He just felt his hamstring in the first stride out and reported it straight away, couldn’t go. I don’t know any more than that right now.”<\/p>\n

It’s the seventh time the Warriors have played at Eden Park, but the first since beating Canberra there in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tickets to the Warriors’ must-win NRL final against the Knights at Eden Park on Sunday have sold out.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51,111,139,69,213,3006],"class_list":["post-601057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}