A new phase of ticket sales for the 2023 Rugby World Cup opens on Tuesday, September 28, with packs of two matches, including the quarter-finals.
The organizers of the World Cup, which will take place from September 8 to October 28, 2023, aim to sell "100% of the tickets", according to the general manager of the organizing committee Claude Atcher.
Around 250,000 tickets will go on sale during this second phase, first open to members of the “2023 Family” registered on the official ticket office, then to everyone from Thursday.
These will be packs of two matches: for the quarter-finals, scheduled at the Stade de France and the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, or for group matches in each of the nine cities hosting the competition.
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You still have 24 hours to access the 2023 Family presale!
Register before midday tomorrow (CEST) to find the City Packs 2 matches and the Quarter-Finals Packs
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It will then be possible to choose the first match, but the second, "a little less prestigious", will be imposed in order to "balance sales in each of the cities", explained Claude Atcher.
"The appetite coming while eating, we intend to sell 100% of the tickets", he affirmed, reinforced by the success of the first phase of sale, marked in the spring by computer problems, which had caused disappointed.
“There was a lot of talk about technical problems in the first phase, but in fact our servers all kept out of a 7-minute break on the first day,” said Claude Atcher.
According to him, two problems "disrupted the system": payments with stolen cards and those exceeding the limit authorized by the banks.
Online ticketing has since been strengthened, assured the head of the organizing committee, who said he was ready to cope with the influx expected for the second phase: “We prepared.
It's like a rugby match, we know that it will + sting + in the first quarter of an hour ”.
New tickets (for the semi-finals and the final) will go on sale in spring 2022 at the end of the next Six Nations Tournament, then in September 2022, individually, for what will remain.
