25,000 Rugby World Cup tickets to go on sale
Fans will have further opportunities to buy tickets for Rugby World Cup 2015 matches from Tuesday April 28, via tickets.rugbyworldcup.com, from 10am.
25,000 tickets will go on sale for an additional 12 matches at Sandy Park (Exeter), Kingsholm Stadium (Gloucester), Brighton Community Stadium (Brighton), Elland Road (Leeds) and Villa Park (Birmingham). This is in addition to the 16 matches currently on sale at tickets.rugbyworldcup.com
Tickets for additional matches on sale from April 28 include:
Brighton Community Stadium, Brighton
South Africa v Japan, September 19
Samoa v USA, September 20
Elland Road, Leeds
Scotland v USA, September 27
Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester
Tonga v Georgia, September 19
Scotland v Japan, September 23
Argentina v Georgia, September 25
USA v Japan, October 11
Sandy Park, Exeter
Tonga v Namibia, September 29
Namibia v Georgia, October 7
Italy v Romania, October 11
Villa Park, Birmingham
South Africa v Samoa, September 26
Australia v Uruguay, September 27
The additional tickets, on sale from April 28, include a mixture of seats released from ongoing venue planning and configuration, handbacks from the Tournament's commercial programme and unions, and tickets that have been registered for official resale by fans who can no longer attend matches. Further tickets will be released for general sale on a monthly basis and details will be released in advance of sale.
The official ticket resale service, which opened on March 24, allows fans to sell tickets for matches they can no longer attend at face value, through a secure, transparent and authorised system at tickets.rugbyworldcup.com. The official resale programme will run up to and during the Tournament. Any ticket posted and not sold through resale 24 hours prior to a match will remain the property of the selling fan for them to use to attend the match.
In order to enjoy the best possible spectator experience and not be let down or misled, Rugby World Cup 2015 is urging fans to only buy tickets from official sources. For more information and to check whether a company or certain website is an official RWC 2015 channel, fans can use the ‘Official Checker’ tool located at www.rugbyworldcup.com/buyofficial.
Fans can also buy tickets via the official travel (domestic and international) and hospitality programmes. More details on these programmes can be found at www.rugbyworldcup.com/ticketing.
