Quick Facts - Rugby World Cup 2011Twenty teams will contest the tournament.
The tournament will occur during September and October of 2011, with the grand final being held on the weekend of 22-23 October.
The grand final and both the semi-final matches will be held at Eden Park Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand.
The venue for the quarter-finals, and third/fourth play-off matches will be confirmed later this year.
The twelve automatic qualifying teams will be allocated into pools based on their rankings in December this year. The cut-off date for rankings will be December 1st 2008.
All other matches and their locations, including the base locations for each team, will be confirmed in the first quarter of 2009.
Ticket prices will likely be set in the first quarter of 2009.
Up to 70,000 overseas visitors are expected to visit New Zealand for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
The teams to have automatically qualified for the 2011 Rugby World Cup are:South Africa, England, Argentina, France, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Fiji, Wales, Ireland, Tonga and Italy.
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