RWC ticket prices announced
4 Dec 2009
A ticket to the 2011 Rugby World Cup final could cost you close to R7,000, however some pool games will be far more affordable.
Organisers of the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand announced on Friday that tickets will range in price from between NZ$15 (around R80) for children and NZ$30 (R160) for adults at some pool games, to between NZ$390 (just over R2 000) and NZ$1 250 (R6,625) for the Cup final at Auckland’s Eden Park. Tickets go on sale in April 2010.
There is strong criticism that ticket prices are too high for the vast majority of New Zealanders, but RWC 2011 chief executive Martin Snedden countered that criticism by saying that pricing reflected the status of the tournament. He added that prices were comparative to those charged at the 2007 World Cup in France.
In an unprecedented move, tournament organisers have put a in place a facility through which New Zealanders can pay for tickets in installments.
‘RWC 2011 is one of the world’s greatest sporting events and will be a once in a lifetime opportunity in such a rugby-loving country as New Zealand,’ Snedden said.
The tournament, set to start in September 2011, is expected to run at a NZ$40 million (R212 million) deficit, two-thirds of which will be funded by taxpayers and one third by the New Zealand Rugby Union.
IRB takes all revenues from television rights, hosting fees, sponsorship and merchandising while the host country is only able to recoup costs through ticket sales.
43 Comments
4 Dec 2009, 09:15 am
Too dear.
4 Dec 2009, 09:19 am
rip off dragons!!
4 Dec 2009, 09:21 am
bloodyy hell….crazy!
4 Dec 2009, 10:14 am
I have put away R1200 per momth since December 2007 so that me and the Mrs can afford to go! Really look forward to this one.
I need someone in NZ to arrange tickets though because its so much more expensive to buy from here or online apparantly?
4 Dec 2009, 10:19 am
@Fidget:
Glad to hear the credir crunch didn’t affect all of us
4 Dec 2009, 10:43 am
@Fidget:
that should mean you atleast at the R43000 mark!
Hows about a loan there?
4 Dec 2009, 10:45 am
@usualsuspect:
hw much woul one need for a holiday like that?
4 Dec 2009, 11:03 am
A bit more than 87′, paid NZ$16 for a terrace seat at the Garden of Eden.
4 Dec 2009, 11:05 am
@NZINCHINA:
not too bad, and you saw your team win.
1000 bucks to see your team lose to the bokke in the final is a bit much.
4 Dec 2009, 11:09 am
@cab:
Ha – mate if we dont make the final ( very unlikely ) will sell you mine for NZ$500, that will probably be around 20,000 rand by 2011 lol
4 Dec 2009, 11:19 am
@usualsuspect:
$10k NZ should cover it.
4 Dec 2009, 11:56 am
I guess Tackles will be watching the games on the telly then – Plumbers dont make much and he doesnt qualify for the **** incentive bonus.
4 Dec 2009, 12:00 pm
Why are they making a loss?
4 Dec 2009, 12:06 pm
Dantalian, they make a loss, because they have to pay the IRB a boatload to host it, but their stadiums only take 40 or 50 people at a time.
4 Dec 2009, 12:07 pm
Hopefully the matches will be played during the day and not in dense fog at night.
4 Dec 2009, 12:09 pm
@DieBarry: Why host it then? I thought the idea is to make money?
4 Dec 2009, 12:15 pm
Scalper Cane…………….
8)
4 Dec 2009, 12:20 pm
Rider to the above….
The NZ Government has passed a “special law” making it illegal to on-sell WC2011 Tickets at a profit. (Scalping).
4 Dec 2009, 12:23 pm
@Dantalian Post 16:
No Dandy, the idea is to “Celebrate Rugby”.
Or, that’s what it should be anyway.
4 Dec 2009, 12:29 pm
@cane: I’d rather make money.
4 Dec 2009, 12:43 pm
The ONLY money NZRU make out of the entire RWC deal are the entry-ticket sales into the grounds. They don’t even make a cent out of the popcorn, the hokey-pokey ice-cream and pineapple lumps and minties and ginger-nuts sold by vendors inside the grounds. Or of the metered car-parking outside the grounds.
It’s bums on stadium seats. That’s absolutely ALL they make money on.
And all the six main stadiums seat 40-60000 at a heavy push.
No point in constructing a 100000 seat stadium if it will never be filled ever again.
But, it IS going to happen right in the pulsing pulmonary artery of world rugby.
You yarpies had your chance, but you blew it. No surprise!
4 Dec 2009, 13:01 pm
I saw Matt Damon on the news Tonight.
He makes a pretty good Francois Pienaar.
(No mention of Food Poisoning or Susie the *****).
4 Dec 2009, 13:06 pm
@Slappes:
however you’re wrong on the point about plumbers. Some of them make a moerse lot of dosh.
I skeem tickles is a broke *** expat living in hicksville.
I can just imgine him with his mullet, smelly white vest (stained with last night’s dinner), bottle of rum in one hand, sitting on the porch shouting obscenities at passers by.
4 Dec 2009, 13:07 pm
@Jozi:
He will always be one of yours though.
4 Dec 2009, 13:14 pm
@NZINCHINA: No boet, you can keep him, thank you. His official citizenship reads “New Zealand”
4 Dec 2009, 13:15 pm
@Slappes:
“Plumbers don’t make much”………………when was the last time you had one of the “Robbers” to your house.
4 Dec 2009, 13:19 pm
Old Tickler,
He’s a phuckin Legend.
He’s the clown that tells the King,
“You are naked you dip stick”.
4 Dec 2009, 13:23 pm
Cane, Jozi – Underqualified, incompetent plumbers dont make much then.
4 Dec 2009, 13:37 pm
From, Tiger Tiger burning bright.
Tiger Woods…….Now……….Cheetah Woods.
4 Dec 2009, 14:11 pm
@NZINCHINA:
We don’t want him!
4 Dec 2009, 18:03 pm
Don’t think that is too expensive to see a final especially if Boks make it to the final.
Just have to see how much a air ticket will cost in the soccer world cup. Joburg to Durban return R7 000 and Cape Town return to Joburg R10 000. A huge rip off I would say.
A flight here to SA from Scotland will cost R18 000. Crazy stupid prices.
4 Dec 2009, 21:59 pm
smack bang in the middle of my AS levels…
4 Dec 2009, 22:11 pm
Fear not, the stadiums will be packed for the games, i know heaps of kiwis saving up to go to the crucial games, because we all doubt we’ll ever hold the tournament again in our lifetime.
No repeat of the empty seats we saw in South Africa this year for Lions and All Black games – not saying that is a blight on you supporters, but hey this is the rugby world cup we are talking here, the prices reflect demand and i bet they will sell like hot cakes!
4 Dec 2009, 23:56 pm
I am also planning on going, was living in London in 2007 and started saving up then, I put away 500 pounds a month since, so I will be going first class.
SA to defend their title!
5 Dec 2009, 00:09 am
I’m watching it all on the telly.
Well, I might stump up some stroll-up dollars to see Upper Volta take on Turkmenistan if they happen to be in the Cake Tin when I’m incidentally on my way to the railway station New World supermarket to buy a couple of freshly-baked cream Danishes and possibly a sixpack of Steinie Pures for my tea and I’m just perchance passing by…
6 Dec 2009, 01:29 am
@Dantalian:
only chance they got of winning it thats why!
6 Dec 2009, 01:30 am
@TheTackler:
the six main stadiums DO NOT seat 40k people plus.
6 Dec 2009, 01:38 am
@NZMaori:
all lion matches were sold out. it was the AB games where the seats were empty.
6 Dec 2009, 01:39 am
@TheTackler:
i thought you were on house arrest? or will you have completed your time by 2011?
6 Dec 2009, 01:45 am
bit of a shame on the draw. looks to me like Boks and ABs to meet in the semi’s provided they both top their groups and win the quarter finals.
6 Dec 2009, 08:29 am
@munkiboi:
yea they do
6 Dec 2009, 11:55 am
@Hurricane:
Eden park 45000 capacity now. 2011 60000 capacity
AMI stadium will hold upto 45000 people
Westpac stadium can reach 40000 people
7 Dec 2009, 08:45 am
Prices are reasonable, it’s the WC! I would have loved to go, but alas it won’t be possible.
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