90% of tickets snapped up for ‘biggest-ever’ Hong Kong Sevens at Kai Tak Sports Park
Organisers say this year’s tournament will be ‘biggest ever’ as more than 43,000 tickets have been sold so far
More than 90 per cent of tickets for the “biggest-ever” Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament have been snapped up, organisers have said, as they gear up for the mega-event at Kai Tak Sports Park.
Bryan Rennie, executive director of commercial and business operations at Hong Kong China Rugby, said on Wednesday that this year’s tournament would be the city’s “biggest ever”, with the number of tickets sold reaching a record of more than 43,000.
This year’s event will be held for the first time at the new 50,000-seat Kai Tak Stadium from Friday to Sunday, after being hosted for decades at Hong Kong Stadium, which has a seating capacity of 40,000.
“That would be a three-day audience of over 130,000,” Rennie said. “With our stadium build, our full capacity is 47,000, so to date, we have sold over 90 per cent of the capacity. All of our corporate suites and boxes are sold, which is fantastic.”
The Post learned that tickets were still available for Friday and Saturday but had sold out for Sunday.
Asked whether Hong Kong China Rugby was confident that the capacity for the venue could be maxed out when the event started on Friday, Rennie said he would continue to monitor ticket sales.