Wrexham’s Rugby World Cup Kick-Off Times Announced

With exactly six months to go to the tournament Rugby League World Cup 2013 organisers have announced kick-off times for all matches.

Wrexham’s famous Racecourse Ground will host two matches at the competition. The Group D match between co-hosts Wales and USA will kick-off at 2.00pm on Sunday 3rd November.

And the mouthwatering quarter-final match between the winners of Groups A & D will kick-off at 1.00pm on Saturday 16th November.

The first two matches will follow the Opening Ceremony at The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff with England v Australia starting the tournament at 2.30pm. Host nation Wales will then face new boys Italy at 4.30pm.

The ‘Big Hit’ semi-final double header will see the best four teams in the tournament go head to head at Wembley Stadium. The first game (Winner of Quarter-final 1 v Winner of Quarter-Final 3) will kick off at 1.00pm and the second (Winner of Quarter-final 2 v Winner of Quarter-final 4) will start at 3.30pm.

The Rugby League World Cup Final, which will be shown live on BBC1, will kick off at 2.30pm, at Old Trafford.

All of the games at the group stages which take place on a week day will be evening kick-offs. Where two games happen in a day at separate locations there is a minimum of four hours between kick-offs.

RLWC2013 Tournament General Manager, Sally Bolton said “We’re delighted to now announce the kick-off times.”

“It’s great that with six months to go fans who have been waiting to buy tickets and plan trips around the tournament can do so. We expect demand for all tickets at all games to be high, today and over the weekend”

Tickets for both games are available by calling 0844 847 2013 (24hrs) or online at www.rlwc2013.com/tickets .