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Rugby World Cup 2015
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Between September 18 and October 31, England and Cardiff welcomed the world to Rugby World
Cup 2015. Wembley Stadium recorded two consecutive Rugby World Cup attendance records and
Bryan Habana equalled Jonah Lomu’s Rugby World Cup try-scoring record.
Stakeholders included:
6,000 Pack volunteers, 42 Team Bases, 20 participating teams, 19 match officials,
15 Fanzones, 13 match venues, 11 host cities and millions of fans from around the world.

Tickets through which fans could sell their 173 nationalities
unwanted tickets to other
fans at face value. bought tickets
All 13 match venues
enjoyed near England Rugby 2015 generated 406,000
capacity crowds. over £275 million in international visitors
ticket revenues,
Record levels of ticket sales delivering some 100,000 child tickets
saw over 2.47 million £93 million surplus sold
tickets sold across to World Rugby
all 48 matches, with and a £26 million
an average of 98% of surplus to the RFU
tickets sold across all to be invested in
venues. the development of
rugby.
This included 120,000
tickets purchased 85% tickets sold to
through the fans through public
tournament’s official sale
resale service,

Trophy Tour The Webb Ellis Cup visited some the Africa 1 spot by beating
Madagascar to win the Africa Cup
of the world’s most famous sites,
including Niagara Falls, Mount and Uruguay taking the repechage
The Trophy Tour visited Fuji, Sydney Harbour and the Burj spot by defeating Russia.
established and developing rugby Al Arab, the Coliseum in Rome
nations. and the headquarters of the UN People around the world joined in
World Food Programme, the the international celebration of the
The Webb Ellis official charity of Rugby World Cup Trophy Tour through social media,
Cup arrived in 2015. sharing photos through Twitter
111 communities, and Facebook or watching the
engaging over 70,000 The Trophy Tour was supported videos through YouTube.
by 308 current and
people, including three world former international The Trophy visited Scotland,
leaders, in a year-long international players from 27 Northern Ireland, Republic
celebration of rugby. of Ireland and Wales, before
countries, many taking part arriving back in
The Rugby World Cup Trophy in coaching clinics at schools and the UK for a 100-
Tour visited 15 countries, clubs. This included 11 winners day journey and a
clocked up over from five previous Rugby World royal send off from
115,000 miles, Cups
Twickenham Stadium
stopped in 12 The Webb Ellis Cup was present when Prince Harry was joined by
different time zones, for Japan taking the Asia 1 spot by Rugby World Cup 2003 winners
and crossed the defeating Hong Kong; Fiji taking Jonny Wilkinson and Will
equator six times. the Oceania spot by defeating the Greenwood, together with local
Cook Islands; Namibia taking school children.

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