{"id":2204,"date":"2022-08-12T06:36:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/12\/record-breaking-ticket-sales-expected-for-rugby-league-world-cup-2021\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T06:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:36:15","slug":"record-breaking-ticket-sales-expected-for-rugby-league-world-cup-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/12\/record-breaking-ticket-sales-expected-for-rugby-league-world-cup-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking ticket sales expected for Rugby League World Cup 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rugby League World Cup 2021 organisers are expecting record-breaking ticket sales for the upcoming tournament.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over a quarter of a million tickets have already been sold and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/07\/08\/rugby-league-world-cup-2021-expects-record-breaking-crowd-for-womens-opener\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">women\u2019s opener is set to have a record-breaking crowd<\/a> in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, which was postponed from last year, will feature men\u2019s, women\u2019s and wheelchair competitions running simultaneously.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s opening men\u2019s game against Samoa in Newcastle is one of a number of matches close to selling out, while men\u2019s group games at Sheffield, Bolton and Newcastle are also set to sell out. All eight wheelchair games at Sheffield\u2019s English Institute of Sport arena have already sold out.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Hogan, the tournament\u2019s director of revenue, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/62516814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>: \u201cWe are delighted to hit such a significant milestone for ticket sales at this stage. We are incredibly excited that this year\u2019s World Cup is going to be the best attended in the long history of our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s and women\u2019s double-header final at Old Trafford on November 19 is also set to sell out, which would make it the highest grossing rugby league match held in the northern hemisphere.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hogan added: \u201cWhat has been particularly encouraging to see is the appetite for tickets across all three tournaments, with our opening fixtures for the men\u2019s, women\u2019s and wheelchair competitions all selling well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt RLWC21, we want to inspire the next generation of rugby league players and fans alike, which is why we have created a ticket pricing strategy that will make the tournament one of the most affordable and family friendly international sports events in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Image: RLWC21<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/08\/12\/record-breaking-ticket-sales-expected-for-rugby-league-world-cup-2021\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Rugby League World Cup 2021 organisers are expecting record-breaking ticket sales for the upcoming tournament.\u00a0 Over a quarter of a million tickets have already been sold and the women\u2019s opener is set to have a record-breaking crowd in attendance. The tournament, which was postponed from last year, will feature men\u2019s, women\u2019s and wheelchair competitions &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2651,2,638,307,309,475,1532,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bolton","category-featured-news","category-newcastle","category-old-trafford","category-rugby-league","category-rugby-league-world-cup-2021","category-sheffield","category-ticker-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}