Webb Ellis Cup in Cape Town

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Rugby World Cup

  • Hosted once every four years, the Rugby World Cup is the game’s centrepiece event
  • The third largest sports event in the world after the Olympics and Football World Cup
  • Four pools made up of the world’s top 20 teams compete for the rugby’s greatest prize, the Webb
    Ellis Cup
  • Rugby World Cup is the sport’s financial engine, generating approximately 90 per cent of World
    Rugby’s revenues for reinvestment in the global game over the four-year cycle
  • The record-breaking success of England 2015 is enabling World Rugby to invest GBP £482 million at
    all levels of the game between 2016 and 2019, eclipsing the previous four-year cycle by 38 per cent, to
    ensure strong and sustainable growth
  • Rugby’s values: integrity, passion, solidarity, discipline and respect

Rugby World Cup 2019

  • Rugby World Cup 2019 takes place in Japan from 20 September – 2 November 2019
  • Japan 2019 is the ninth edition of rugby’s showcase global event, the first in Asia
  • 48 matches hosted across 12 match cities
  • All 20 teams have now qualified for Japan 2019:
    o Pool A – Ireland, Scotland, Japan, Russia, Samoa
    o Pool B – New Zealand, South Africa, Italy, Namibia, Canada
    o Pool C – England, France, Argentina, USA, Tonga
    o Pool D – Australia, Wales, Georgia, Fiji, Uruguay
  • Rugby World Cup 2019 is also supported by six worldwide partners: DHL, Emirates, Heineken, Land
    Rover, Master Card and Société Générale
  • Tournament preparations are firmly on track with more than 2.5 million ticket applications to date, the
    agreement of the 51 team bases, oversubscribed volunteer programme, successful test matches in
    RWC venues including Oita, Kobe and Sapporo Dome
  • Over 400,000 fans are expected to visit Japan during RWC 2019
  • The economic impact is unprecedented and nationwide: Y216.6 billion (£1.5 billion) additive values into
    the Japanese economy over 6 weeks
  • Tickets are now available on open sale at https://tickets.rugbyworldcup.com – there remains good
    availability for South Africa matches including South Africa vs. Namibia at Toyota (Sep 28) and
    South Africa vs. Italy at Shizuoka (Oct 4) and tickets are on sale until 31 March – don’t miss out on
    this once in a lifetime experience

The Rugby World Cup 2019 Trophy Tour

  • Rugby World Cup 2019 Trophy Tour will inspire new audiences and participants through a programme
    of community, education and rugby activities
  • The Tour will visit 20 countries over two years, including five countries that have never hosted the
    Webb Ellis Cup: Malaysia, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Chile
  • South Africa is the fourteenth stop
  • In Asia the Tour will support the dedicated IMPACT Beyond 2019 legacy programme which aims to
    attract and retain 1 million new participants to the game

The tour will also excite and ready the global rugby family – fans, players, unions, media, stakeholders
– visiting both emerging and established markets across 5 continents ahead of Rugby World Cup 2019

  • The Tour has already visited England, Uruguay, Spain, Fiji, Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, India,
    France, Nepal, Ireland, Malaysia and Germany as well as touring around Japan at key tournament
    milestones
  • During 2019, the trophy will continue its tour, visiting the USA, Canada, Pakistan, Brazil, Chile and
    Argentina ending in June when the Webb Ellis Cup arrives in Japan for the final countdown to the
    tournament

Growing the Game in Asia

  • Project Asia 1 Million, part of the Impact Beyond programme which set a target of attracting one 1 new
    rugby participants by 2020, with over 1 million new participants already, the focus is now on retaining
    these players in the run up to Rugby World Cup 2019 and beyond
  • Asia continued to embrace the sport in 2017 with a total of 721,800 girls and boys taking part in the
    Get Into Rugby programme in 2017
  • Asia Rugby boasted the highest number of Get Into Rugby participants of all the regions, with an 18
    per cent increase on 2016

The Global Game

  • Rugby continues its unprecedented growth with 9.1 million men, women and children playing the sport
    in World Rugby member unions worldwide in 2017
  • A record number of girls and boys were introduced to rugby in 2017, over two million girls and boys
    participated in Get Into Rugby in 2017
  • A new Nielsen study has determined there are 338 million rugby fans worldwide
  • Awareness in rugby sevens tripled after the Olympics, with sevens experiencing a greater increase in
    rugby sevens versus tennis, hockey and golf (Nielsen) and it has estimated that the sevens fan-base
    grew by more than 30 million as a result
  • Rugby has the second-largest social media community of any Olympic IF (8.2million)

World Rugby

  • World Rugby is the global governing body for the sport of rugby worldwide and owner of Rugby
    World Cup
  • With 120 national unions affiliated through six regional associations, World Rugby is responsible
    for the development and growth of rugby worldwide, the guardians of its regulations and laws and
    major international events, including Rugby World Cup, the World Rugby Sevens Series and
    Women’s World Rugby Sevens Series, Pacific Nations Cup, Tbilisi Cup, Nations Cup, U20 World
    Championship and several others
    The Webb Ellis Cup
  • At the beginning of 1987, before the inaugural Rugby World Cup in Auckland and Sydney, the Webb
    Ellis Cup stood in the vaults of the Royal Jewellers, Garrards in London
  • The Cup, made in 1906 by the Garrards silversmiths was a reproduction of a trophy believed to have
    been made around 1740 by one of the leading artisans of the time, Paul de Lamerie, a Huguenot
    silversmith
  • Made of sterling silver, gilded in gold, the Cup is adorned by a satyr head on one of the two cast scroll
    handles, while the other is decorated with a nymph head. The decorative pieces include a bearded
    mask, lion mask and vine
  • The Cup was selected by the Chairman of the 1987 RWC Organising Committee, John Kendall-
    Carpenter and his colleague Bob Weighill, who was the Honorary Secretary of the International Rugby
    Football Board
  • The craftsmanship of the Victorian period and the beauty of the trophy would become one of the
    iconic symbols of sport
  • Rugby World Cup organizing committee decided that the Cup should be engraved ‘The Webb Ellis
    Cup’ after the Victorian schoolboy William Webb Ellis who, legend has it, in a fine disregard for the
    rules of football, picked up the ball and ran with it, thus creating the game of Rugby

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