. Top-tier tickets for Scotland's game with Tonga in Nice also remain available, priced at €116 (£99), with over 1,000 still on sale. A record total of 2.6 million tickets were put on sale for the 2023 tournament, with team and city packs on offer. SportsPro Media reported earlier this year that the tournament was projected to generate €457 million (£392 million), with the average price for pool stage tickets lower than it was in Japan in 2019. Supporters expressed their frustration over difficulties with the ticketing system when tickets first went on sale in 2021, which led to Claude Atcher, then the RWC 2023 director general, to apologise for the system's issues. Atcher was sacked last October following an investigation into his workplace conduct. Regarding the make-up of the World Cup pool draw, with England and Wales's matches featuring on the weaker side of the tournament, Bill Beaumont, the World Rugby chairman, recently rev){kind=link}
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Over 2,000 tickets remain unsold for England’s Rugby World Cup match against Chile in Lille later this month.
England’s third group game at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille, the closest venue to home soil in the north of France, still has several category one and two tickets available as noted by an email sent out by the RWC 2023 ticketing service on Friday.
The Stade Pierre-Mauroy holds a capacity of over 50,000, with tickets priced at €120 (£103) and €176 (£151) still available for when Steve Borthwick’s team take on first-time qualifiers Chile. At the time of writing a total of 2,090 tickets were still on sale.
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