RWC TICKET INFORMATION FOR SEASON TICKET HOLDERS
Any adult or concession season ticket holder who has renewed their season ticket for the 2014-15 campaign by 6pm on Monday 28 April will be offered the opportunity to purchase up to four tickets for a game for next year’s tournament.
Members will be written to and emailed from Tuesday 29 April and each member will be offered one of two options:-
1. Option One – To enter the ballot to purchase up to four tickets for any one of the ten games at Twickenham. These include the Rugby World Cup Final, both semi-finals, two quarter-finals and five pool stage games including, the England games versus Wales, Australia and the Oceania Qualifier plus Australia v Wales and France v Italy.
Members will be asked for a first, second and third choice via this ballot which will be drawn on Wednesday 8 May. The club have a set number of guaranteed tickets for each of the Twickenham matches. If any of these matches are over-subscribed then members will automatically be offered tickets to the games included in Option Two (below).
2. Option Two – Members who don’t wish to attend the Twickenham matches or those who are not successful in the ballot will be offered the opportunity to purchase up to four tickets for one of the remaining 38 Rugby World Cup matches. There will be enough tickets available for all members however specific availability for matches and price bands will be on a first come first served basis.
Full details on matches, dates and ticket prices are available via [www.rugbyworldcup.com][1] and these details will be included in the correspondence to members from Tuesday 29 April.
Key Dates for the Falcons Rugby World Cup Tickets Priority Access Programme are as follows:-
• 29 April – Correspondence goes to all members who are eligible for RWC tickets. It will go via email and hard copy by post and will include full details on how to apply, ballot preference form and list of games/prices.
• 7 May – Deadline date for members wishing to return forms to be included in the ballot for Twickenham games (5.00pm deadline). Forms can be sent in via post or email. Those members who don’t return the form by this deadline will be offered up to four tickets to the 38 non-Twickenham matches.
• 8 May – Twickenham Matches Ballot
• 9 May – Members informed of ballot results and how to purchase tickets
• 16 May – Tickets Sales Process opens and tickets on sale
• 30 June – Ticket Sales Process closes
Marketing Director Keith Christie said: “This is a tremendous opportunity for our season ticket holders to be part of the biggest sporting event in the world next year. The timelines are tight and it will require almost immediate action from members.
“We want to ensure that our process is complete and everyone knows how to apply for tickets well ahead of the 16 May sales opening date.
Season ticket holders should keep an eye on their post and email accounts next week as full information will be with them.”
Notes
i. This programme is available to current adult or concession season ticket holders who renew their season ticket by 6pm 28 April
ii. Season ticket holders will be offered the opportunity to choose up to four tickets for either one of the Twickenham matches or any of the other 38 matches
iii. Most Twickenham matches are expected to be over-subscribed so will be allocated via ballot. Those unsuccessful in the ballot will be offered tickets at one of the remaining 38 games
iv. Newcastle Falcons have a set number of tickets for each of the Twickenham matches. Those season ticket holders who are successful in the ballot will have between the dates 16 May – 30 June 2014 to purchase their allocation of RWC tickets. No tickets can be held after this date
v. Those season ticket holders in the general ticket sale (38 non Twickenham games) will also have between the dates 16 May – 30 June 2014 to purchase up to four tickets. Tickets at all these games will be on a first come, first served basis. Whilst overall there are enough tickets for all season ticket holders availability to any specific game cannot be guaranteed.
vi. The RWC Ticket Priority Access Programme is available just to current adult or concession season ticket holders who renew. Under the England 2015 terms and conditions new season ticket holders are exempt from access. However as the numbers of current season ticket holders who may wish to apply may be less than the total number of RWC tickets available to the club, a request will go to England 2015 to include new adult/concession season ticket holders. If this is allowable these would be issued on those season ticket holders who renewed at the earliest date.
vii. Members who purchase tickets via this Priority Access Programme can still obtain more tickets via the general public sales in September and November 2014
viii. Members will need to provide a current email address to be able to purchase RWC tickets
[1]: http://www.rugbyworldcup.com
