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Rugby World Cup in France … September - October 2007

The Rugby World Cup is one of the world’s top sporting events covered by the media.

This sixth edition, which France is hosting for the first time, will take place in ten cities (Paris, Saint Denis, Toulouse, Nantes, Marseilles, Lyons, Bordeaux, Lens, Saint Etienne and Montpellier) and two associated cities in the United Kingdom (Edinburgh and Cardiff).

Nearly half a million foreign visitors are expected in France for the event, making it an ideal platform, beyond the sporting event itself, for strengthening exchanges between participating countries and France.

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The 2007 Rugby World Cup will be the sixth Rugby World Cup, for the quadrennial world championship. It will be hosted by France from 7th September to 20th October of 2007. France won the right to host the event in 2003, beating a bid from England.

Over 90 nations participated in the regional qualifying competitions that started in 2004. The eight quarter-finalists from the 2003 events automatically qualified, twelve further nations have qualified. Portugal is the only debutant nation at the 2007 World Cup.

This World Cup will have 20 nations contesting 48 matches over 44 days. Forty-two matches will be spread between ten French cities, with four matches to be held in Cardiff, Wales and two matches in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tickets for the Rugby World Cup were broken up into three phases. The first phase were released in November 2005. Upon the release of the second phase ticketing scheme, more than 100,000 tickets were sold in the first ten hours of release.

The remaining tickets were released in phase three in November 2006, being individual tickets and tickets to the semi-finals to an 'unprecedented demand'.

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