While more than two million seats have found takers, the organizing committee has announced that their resale will take place on an official platform.
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VS’is a date awaited by many supporters of the XV of France and enthusiasts of the oval. The resale of tickets for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, for which more than two million of them have already been sold, will be possible from Tuesday January 24 on an official platform, the organizing committee announced on Monday.
This site will be the “only official and secure way” to resell tickets purchased during previous sales phases, he said in a statement. “Tickets sold on other sites do not guarantee access” to the stadiums where the World Cup matches will be held from September 8 to October 28, 2023, he insisted.
The Blues will launch the 2023 World Cup against New Zealand, three-time world champion (1987, 2011, 2015), on September 8 at the Stade de France, during “a match which should be sold out”, said the organizing committee on Monday. Over the course of 48 matches, for 51 days and in 9 host cities, more than 600,000 visitors from abroad are expected in France.
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A ticket office against a backdrop of controversy
At the beginning of January, the former French international Sébastien Chabal (45 years old, 62 selections between 2000 and 2011), ambassador of the competition, found himself at the heart of a controversy over the ticketing of the World Cup. According to information from Parisianconfirmed by a source close to the investigation, the former third line of the Blues was able to buy a hundred tickets, thus circumventing the rules of sale limiting to eight the number of places per employee of the organizing committee.
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Another former rugby player, Henri Mioch, project manager for the organization of the World Cup between 2017 and 2020, is suspected of having bought some 600 tickets, added this source.
In a press release sent to Agence France-Presse, the former international confirmed that he “benefited from privileged access to buy more tickets”, while claiming that he was not entitled to free tickets or preferential rates: “I do not intend to make a profit on these places,” added the former Bourgoin-Jallieu player.