Sold out.
Tickets for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, like the disappointed fans who spent hours online but came home empty-handed.
The third phase of ticket sales for this Mondial, which is to take place in France from September 8 to October 28, 2023, was held on Tuesday evening.
And, between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., the 350,000 available tickets were sold.
This brings the number of places already sold to 950,000, after the first two sales, on March 15 and March 18, reserved for pre-registered members of the “2023 family”.
Tuesday's sale was open to the general public.
To avoid the bugs of the first two phases, the organizers assured to have muscular their servers.
The tickets.rugbyworldcup.com site was unusable from noon, to prepare for the influx of 6 pm.
At that time, thousands of fans from all over the world connected and entered the virtual queues.
"It's like the online courses, their site has been hacked by the Russians?"
», Joked François, a Lille native disappointed not to have been able to buy the least ticket.
@ France2023 how is it that people who have already bought 6 places have bought 6 more, that is to say 12 places while others have had their connection lost?
I am waiting for answers and I am not the only one.
# FRANCE2023 # RWC2023 # france2023 #rugby #tickets pic.twitter.com/Lf1RgRvKsH
- Thomas pons (@thomas_mtl) April 6, 2021
Depending on the person, it was indeed necessary to wait between a few minutes and two hours to gain access to the sales area.
And, when they had the opportunity to finally fill their basket, bugs were still common.
Were available, the “team packs” to follow the 4 group matches (and an optional quarter-final) of one of the twelve teams already qualified, including France and New Zealand who will face each other in the opening match. at the Stade de France.
Or “city packs”, to follow 3 to 5 group matches in the same stadium (Saint-Denis, Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Nantes, Lyon, Saint-Etienne or Nice).
The lowest prices started at around sixty euros for three games.
But, for a good number of seat seekers, once they arrived in the sales area, there was no longer the desired seats or only the most expensive categories.
And since these are only packs comprising several matches, the bill could quickly go up very high.
It will undoubtedly be necessary to wait for the sale of place individually, in the fall of 2022, a year before the event.
In all, 2.6 million places will be available for this Rugby World Cup in France.