The seventh in a line of Rugby World Cups, the 2011 Rugby World cup is generating a great deal of excitement already. The Rugby World cup originated in 1987.
Dublin Ireland was the scene of the International Rugby Board meeting held in the latter part of 2005, where several countries were proposed as the host of the Rugby World Cup, Proposed for the host country were South Africa and Japan, along with New Zealand. Two separate rounds of voting by the council saw South Africa removed initially, with New Zealand emerging victorious as the host country for the Rugby World Cups to be held in 2011.
The seventh Rugby World Cup is predicted to cost more than 300 million dollars for the country of New Zealand to host, but it is further predicted to generate more than 280 million New Zealand dollars in ticket sales alone. That, and the many tourists who will come to New Zealand to participate or to spectate, as well as the sales from other items and revenue to the area will be a real boon to the small country. This will be the largest of all the sporting events that have ever come to New Zealand.
The closest to come have been the Commonwealth games in 1990, and the 1 Cricket World Cup in 1992, as well as the America's Cup that was hosted here in 2003. The event is expected to bring in more than 75,000 people to the small country for both games and events, a real boost to the economy of the area and a much needed boost for New Zealands office images as a viable host to larger sporting events.
The Rugby Word cup will play out over seven different weekends beginning on the tenth of September and ending the weekend of October 22 in 2011. This weekend was selected so that it would fall upon a long weekend for the country, ending up on October 24, which is the Labour Day weekend. Eden Park in Auckland will be the scene for the playoffs.
There has been a great deal of speculation that said that the number of teams which would be participating in the event would be lowered to just 16 teams, but the IRB announced that the Rugby World Cup would feature twenty teams instead. With only 12 teams qualifying in the 2007 tournament the rest of the qualifiers would have to be made up of eight teams who qualified by virtue of regional qualifiers.
Ther are already a wide range of ticket options that you can purchase now to assure that you're in the right place at the right time--New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup of 2011.
Make sure that you've got the chance to see the biggest and most important Rugby games in years, make plans now to attend the World Cup. The application time for tickets in individual lots will close on the 8th of October of 2010. Don't miss out.
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