Top Seats For Nations Championship’s ‘glastonbury Of Rugby’ At Twickenham To Cost £280

Top-end tickets for nan inaugural Nations Championship final astatine Twickenham will costs £280 arsenic portion of a play billed arsenic nan “Glastonbury of Rugby”, nan Guardian tin reveal.

The climax of nan new 12-team competition, which will beryllium held each 2 years and replaces accepted tours, will beryllium held astatine Twickenham astatine nan extremity of November pinch 2 matches connected Friday, 2 connected Saturday and 2 connected Sunday.

The six Tests pit nan sixth-place finisher successful nan bluish hemisphere excavation against nan sixth successful nan confederate hemisphere pool, nan 5th against nan 5th and truthful on, culminating successful nan first against nan first. Friday will big nan 6 v 6 and 3 v 3 fixtures, Saturday nan 5 v 5 and 2 v 2 matches and Sunday nan 4 v 4 and 1 v 1 finals.

Spectators will beryllium “buying blind” because it is improbable nan personality of nan teams contesting nan finals will beryllium known until nan play before, pinch results from 3 July Tests and 3 regular fixtures successful November determining nan standings.

Still, nan astir costly tickets to watch nan 4 v 4 and 1 v 1 finals will agelong to £279.90. That allows supporters to watch 2 matches but it is successful effect nan apical value for nan last because tickets cannot beryllium bought for a azygous match.

Those buying tickets for aggregate days will person a discount, however, and it is understood that location will beryllium a resale marketplace for spectators to efficaciously “swap” tickets if their teams are playing connected different days.

While nan matches return spot astatine Twickenham, prices are group by nan Six Nations organisers and Sanzaar who tally nan Nations Championship arsenic a associated venture. The cheapest modular tickets for nan time of nan last are £125, £100 for nan Saturday and £60 for nan Friday. All inferior tickets for finals time costs £50 and conscionable £20 for nan Friday.

Well-placed sources judge their pricing strategy caters for each types of spectators, compares good pinch different awesome sporting and euphony events and that nan Nations Championship showcases elite teams astatine cheaper prices than nan 2027 World Cup. Gate receipts will beryllium pooled, arsenic is nan lawsuit pinch broadcast revenue, while nan Rugby Football Union pockets income from nutrient and beverage sales.

England’s 3 location Nations Championship matches successful nan autumn successful nan weeks earlier finals time are against New Zealand, Australia and Japan, and prices for those fixtures are group by nan RFU. Premium tickets against nan All Blacks will costs £238.

Interest successful tickets for nan finals play is said to beryllium search astatine a akin complaint to that of England versus New Zealand, pinch a important stock coming from nan United States. Organisers tin besides expect a precocious surge successful liking for nan astir costly tickets connected nan Sunday should England scope nan final.

Steve Borthwick’s broadside statesman their run successful July pinch a mouthwatering fixture against South Africa successful Johannesburg earlier locking horns pinch Fiji. As nan Guardian exclusively revealed past week, that fixture could return spot astatine Everton’s caller Hill Dickinson Stadium earlier England caput to Argentina.

Borthwick is weighing up fielding a second-string broadside against Fiji for logistical reasons but he whitethorn wish to reconsider if England propulsion disconnected a Six Nations expansive slam and conclusion nan Springboks, because nan lucifer against nan Pacific Islanders would connection nan chance of a world record-equalling 18th consecutive victory. The entreaty of taking nan Fiji fixture distant from Twickenham is to steer clear of nan “neutral” venue for finals day.