Eden Park Rugby Match
Eden park reimers ave kingsland auckland new zealand private bag 56906 dominion road auckland phone 64 9 815 5551 fax 64 9 815 0138 info edenpark co nz.
Eden park rugby match. This week scotty stevenson is joined in the rugby pass studio by broadcaster nathan rarere to discuss all the going ons in week 1 of super rugby. New zealand rugby and the blues lost 1 million in gate takings from cancelling the final super rugby aotearoa match against the crusaders at a sold out eden park and lendrum confirmed a comparable pot was on the line for the north and south fixture. In 2011 it hosted pool games two quarter finals both semi finals and the final of 2011 rugby world cup. New zealand rugby nzr has now confirmed it will be played at wellington s sky stadium on saturday week but there will be no spectators as wellington will still be at alert level two.
Eden park is new zealand s largest sports stadium. The steinlager north v south match is a chance for all new zealanders wherever they are to get behind a team and to enjoy watching the best of the best go head to head against each other for 80 minutes. Roughly 43 000 new zealanders who had been starved of live rugby for three months due to covid 19 filled auckland s eden park on sunday for a super rugby match the largest crowd in 15 years. New zealand s iconic national stadium hosts international and national sports events take a complimentary membership tour call 09 815 5174.
The match was initially scheduled for this saturday at eden park but nzr pushed the date back by a week due to auckland being at alert level 3. Moving the north against south inter island rugby match is somewhat bitter sweet new zealand rugby concedes. Nathan describes the scenes at eden park after the blues win last weekend scotty gets a serious complaint off his chest about milkshakes and both lay out their picks for round 2 of super rugby. Located in central auckland new zealand s largest city it is three kilometres southwest of the cbd on the boundary between the suburbs of mount eden and kingsland.
In doing so it became the first stadium in the world t. Although used primarily for rugby union in winter and cricket in summer it has hosted rugby league and football matches.