Tickets

Only one Southern local body, the Invercargill City Council, has bought tickets to the Rugby World Cup - and Mayor Tim Shadbolt is surprised at having to pay.

Dunedin public ticket sales for the 2011 Rugby World Cup are the highest of the provincial centres, except Hamilton.

Individual tickets for Rugby World Cup matches, including the three games in Dunedin, will go on sale on Wednesday.

After making a killing at the Football World Cup in South Africa, global internet sharks are turning their sights on next year's Rugby World Cup.

Thousands of fans who bought tickets for next year's Rugby World Cup had their transactions knocked back after problems with their credit cards.

If you are reading this thinking 'I must get some tickets for the last test at Carisbrook before they all sell out' you might be too late.

More than a quarter of the tickets for the test between the All Blacks and Wales have been snapped up, with Carisbrook set to be sold out for the third year in a row.