LONDON (AP) Tickets for the 2015 Rugby World Cup final at Twickenham will cost up to $1,160.
Organizers announced details on Wednesday of ticket prices and kickoff times for the tournament in England with less than two years to go.
The final on Oct. 31 will kick off at 1700 GMT, which is dawn in New Zealand, home to the holder and tournament favorite.
When tickets go on general sale next September, they will start for the final at 150 pounds ($240) about 25 percent less than the cheapest at the 2011 final in New Zealand and the most expensive will be 715 pounds ($1,160), about 10 percent higher.
Child tickets, which are being sold for pool stage games, are not being made available for the final or main knockout phase.
By comparison, tickets for international fans at football's World Cup final in 2014 range from $440 to $990.
The opening game of the Rugby World Cup on Sept. 18 sees England play an Oceania qualifier at Twickenham, with a 1900 GMT kickoff. Tickets for that game range from 75 pounds ($120) to 315 pounds ($510), with child tickets at 15 pounds ($24).
"To be able to have those affordable prices at the majority of the matches you also have what some people might regard as expensive prices at the top end," said organizing committee chief executive Debbie Jevans. "But that is one match, there are 48 matches. That 715 pounds price is at one match, which is the final."
Television viewers will have to wake up early in New Zealand to see the All Blacks' title defense begin against Argentina with a 1600 GMT kickoff at Wembley Stadium on Sept. 20.
Australia's opener against an Oceania qualifier starts at the same time three days later at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
Kickoff times in the pool stages will range across 1100, 1330, 1600 and 1900 GMT; in the quarterfinals and semifinals at Millennium Stadium and Twickenham they will be 1300 and 1600 GMT. Britain will still be on daylight savings time.
Packages for fans including travel and tickets will go on sale in February, and hospitality packages will go on the market a month later. Domestic rugby clubs will have some tickets to sell from May before the general sale process begins in September.
"We expect demand to be high in the initial phase but we do not expect to sell out every match and any remaining tickets will be on sale, online, by the end of 2014," Jevans said.
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