World Cup tickets on sale

Tickets for next year’s Rugby World Cup go on sale on this morning with high-demand games to be decided via a ballot.

Prices for adults range from around €19 for low-profile group games up to just under €900 for the best seats at the final at Twickenham.

The cheapest seats for Ireland’s games are around €62, but Scotland fans will only have to pay €26 for the category D tickets against Japan and the USA. Tickets for children start at €10.

The cheapest adult ticket to watch an England group game at Twickenham will be €95, and around €62 for their match against a play-off winner in Manchester.

England Rugby 2015 have to raise over €300m from tickets to cover the cost of the tournament and pay the International Rugby Board €100m under the hosting agreement, meaning the average ticket will cost around €120.

There will be a ’traffic light’ indicator system on the ticket website — www.tickets.rugbyworldcup.com — to show which matches are receiving a lot of applications and are likely to go to ballot.

Debbie Jevans, chief executive of England Rugby 2015, said: “We have worked hard to develop a ticketing system which makes the application process easy and efficient as possible, and offers flexibility to fans. Fans have 17 days to apply, so there is no rush and they should take time to consider what they would like to purchase.”