The 7th Rugby 2011 World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. At a meeting of the International Rugby Board (IRB) held in Dublin on 17 November 2005, New Zealand was selected as the host country in favourite to Japan and South Africa. There were two rounds of voting by the IRB Council to decide the host nation, with South Africa get rid of in the first round.
The event is expected to cost about NZ$310 million to run and will generate NZ$280 million in ticket sales. It will be the biggest sporting occasion ever held in New Zealand, hide the 1987 Rugby World Cup, 1990 Commonwealth Games, 1992 Cricket World Cup, 2003 America's Cup and 2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand Around 70,000 viewers from different parts of the world are expected to travel to New Zealand for the associated games and matches.
The event is scheduled to be played over seven weekends from the weekend starting 10 September and finished the weekend starting 22 October 2011. The weekend of the final was chosen so it falls on a long weekend caused by the New Zealand public holiday of Labour Day (Monday, 24 October 2011). The final is scheduled to be played in Auckland at Eden Park.
As of 19 February 2008, New Zealand's progress in making plans for the event received an A+ rating from the International Rugby Board's chairman and chief executive.
After months of gossips that the number of participating teams would be reduced to 16, the IRB announced on Friday, 30 November 2007 that the 2011 tournament would again feature 20 teams. Twelve teams qualified as a result of finishing in the top three in each pool in the 2007 tournament. The remaining eight berths will be determined by regional qualifying tournaments.
The event is expected to cost about NZ$310 million to run and will generate NZ$280 million in ticket sales. It will be the biggest sporting occasion ever held in New Zealand, hide the 1987 Rugby World Cup, 1990 Commonwealth Games, 1992 Cricket World Cup, 2003 America's Cup and 2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand Around 70,000 viewers from different parts of the world are expected to travel to New Zealand for the associated games and matches.
The event is scheduled to be played over seven weekends from the weekend starting 10 September and finished the weekend starting 22 October 2011. The weekend of the final was chosen so it falls on a long weekend caused by the New Zealand public holiday of Labour Day (Monday, 24 October 2011). The final is scheduled to be played in Auckland at Eden Park.
As of 19 February 2008, New Zealand's progress in making plans for the event received an A+ rating from the International Rugby Board's chairman and chief executive.
After months of gossips that the number of participating teams would be reduced to 16, the IRB announced on Friday, 30 November 2007 that the 2011 tournament would again feature 20 teams. Twelve teams qualified as a result of finishing in the top three in each pool in the 2007 tournament. The remaining eight berths will be determined by regional qualifying tournaments.
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