Ashton Gate to host Rugby World Cup semi-finals

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A wide position wrong Ashton Gate Image source, Rex Features

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Ashton Gate is location to Bristol Bears and Bristol City Football Club

Bristol's Ashton Gate will big some semi-finals astatine adjacent year’s Women’s Rugby World Cup.

The 27,000 capacity venue will besides stock nan quarter-finals on pinch Exeter's Sandy Park, which hosted nan Premiership Women's Rugby last past week.

Twickenham has already been announced arsenic nan venue for nan final while nan Stadium of Light successful Sunderland will big nan opening crippled wherever England will unfastened nan tournament.

The tourney starts connected Friday, 22 August pinch nan quarter-finals complete nan play of 13-14 September.

The semi-finals will return spot a week later pinch nan last and bronze-medal lucifer connected 27 September.

The Red Roses will besides play successful Northampton and Brighton and Hove during nan excavation stage, pinch Manchester, York and Exeter besides hosting group games.

Image source, Rex Features

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Sandy Park has besides hosted matches astatine nan men's Rugby World Cup successful 2015 arsenic good arsenic matches for England's women's team

The first tickets will spell connected waste successful September priced from £5 to £95.

The £95 class 1 big summons for nan last astatine Twickenham becomes nan highest worth non-hospitality summons for an world women’s squad athletics arena successful nan UK, while 60% of tickets are priced nether £25.

The first information of tickets for nan opening lucifer successful Sunderland and nan last astatine Twickenham spell connected waste connected 24 September 2024, pinch nan remainder of nan tickets going connected waste successful October.

The tournament, hosted successful England, will spot much than 400,000 tickets made available, double nan number of nan erstwhile women’s Rugby World Cup successful New Zealand successful 2022.

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