Next month\u2019s Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham is already an 82,000 sellout, bullish organisers have announced, and will be the most attended women\u2019s rugby match in history.<\/p>\n
The figure surpasses the 66,000 fans that packed the Stade de France for each session of the women\u2019s rugby sevens tournament at the Paris Olympics, and organisers say ticket sales across the tournament have also vastly exceeded expectations.<\/p>\n
So far more than 375,000 tickets \u2013 which start at \u00a310 for adults and \u00a35 for children \u2013 have been sold, which is three times the number that were sold for the 2021 Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
The news was announced by Gill Whitehead, the chair of the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup, at a press conference in the buildup to the tournament opener between England and the United States at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe final we are very confident will be the most attended women\u2019s rugby match in history, easily surpassing the 66,000 crowd that we saw in Paris 2024,\u201d she said. \u201cI can confirm the final at Allianz Stadium will be sold out. The last time England hosted the Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup [in 2010], the girls played at the Stoop around the corner to a crowd of 13,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started playing women\u2019s rugby 30 years ago and the prospect of girls running out of the tunnel, playing to the three tiers of Allianz packed to the rafters, is something perhaps I never hoped or thought I would see and it\u2019s certainly what girls\u2019 dreams are made of.\u201d<\/p>\n
More than 40,000 tickets have been sold for England\u2019s game against the US, but Sally Horrox, the World Rugby Chief of Women\u2019s Rugby, was confident it would be close to a 50,000 sellout by kick-off. \u201cThe sport has grown significantly over the last three years,\u201d she said. \u201cBut it\u2019s hugely important now that we make the very most of this opportunity right in front of us over the next six weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sarah Massey, the managing director of the tournament, said that more than 80% of tickets had been sold and that this would rise. She was confident those that had bought tickets would show up and be entranced by the spectacle in front of them.<\/p>\n
skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n The latest rugby union news and analysis, plus all the week’s action reviewed<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re ready to break records in attendances, viewership and engagement,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is going to be the biggest global celebration of women\u2019s rugby that we have ever seen. We\u2019ve now sold 375,000 tickets across all those matches, surpassing all our initial ticket targets.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s also three times the number of tickets that were sold for the last Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup. You\u2019re going to see thrilling action, electric atmospheres, and be quick, because those remaining tickets are really selling up fast.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next month\u2019s Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham is already an 82,000 sellout, bullish organisers have announced,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-357101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115056098918504831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}