{"id":216489,"date":"2025-12-05T08:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/216489\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:49:14","slug":"tickets-for-leinsters-champions-cup-clash-with-harlequins-prove-hard-to-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/216489\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets for Leinster\u2019s Champions Cup clash with Harlequins prove hard to shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFewer than 30,000 expected at the Aviva Stadium owing to a combination of factors\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rieko Ioane will make his first appearance for Leinster when he comes off the bench in tomorrow's Champions Cup clash with Harlequins at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Sports3303364.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Rieko Ioane will make his first appearance for Leinster when he comes off the bench in tomorrow&#8217;s Champions Cup clash with Harlequins at the Aviva Stadium. Photo: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Leinster are hoping to attract a crowd of around 28,000 for tomorrow\u2019s Champions Cup opener against Harlequins at the Aviva Stadium (5.30).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Although that figure will fall well short of the 51,700 capacity, it is still more than Leinster would have been able to accommodate at the RDS were it not currently being redeveloped. The Ballsbridge venue will have a 20,000 capacity when the revamped facility returns to use next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fewer than 30,000 expected at the Aviva Stadium owing to a combination of factors Rieko Ioane will make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[13425,39921,18,19,17,53475,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-216489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aviva-stadium","9":"tag-cian-tracey","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-leo-cullen","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}