DENVER — Denver is vying to host the 2031 Males’s and 2033 Girls’s Rugby World Cups, the Denver Sports activities Fee introduced in a information launch Tuesday.
Denver Sports activities Fee
The World Rugby delegation visited the Mile Excessive Metropolis to scope it out as a possible host for these occasions. The delegation toured Empower Discipline at Mile Excessive and Dick’s Sporting Items Park, which have hosted main sporting occasions efficiently prior to now.
Gabriel Christus / Denver Broncos
Photograph by Gabriel Christus / Denver Broncos
Denver has hosted the Concacaf Nations League Finals, the Main League Baseball All-Star Sport and the US Girls’s Soccer Nationwide Crew matches, amongst different main sporting occasions, in recent times.
Denver’s rugby scene can be rising as town’s new girls’s skilled rugby franchise prepares to play later this month.
Denver7 Sports activities
Girls’s skilled rugby brings workforce to Denver in its inaugural season
“The USA’ internet hosting of males’s and ladies’s Rugby World Cups in 2031 and 33 respectively represents a landmark second for Rugby’s development throughout this nice nation,” World Rugby CEO Alan Gilpin mentioned. “We’re already witnessing nice engagement, enthusiasm and motivation from cities involved in internet hosting these world-renowned sports activities occasions, and we’re thrilled to see Denver to the fore, the place rugby’s footprint is rising quickly.”
The Males’s Rugby World Cup includes 24 groups taking part in 52 matches. It’s the third-largest sporting occasion on this planet, based on the Denver Sports activities Fee. The Rugby World Cup is held each 4 years.
The Rugby World Cup generated $1.95 billion in whole spending in 2023, attracting 425,000 worldwide guests to the host nation, based on the Denver Sports activities Fee. The USA was chosen in Could of 2022 to host the Rugby World Cup for the primary time within the match’s historical past.
“Denver is a sports activities city, and we’re dedicated to rising rugby’s presence right here. We’re proud to showcase our world-class venues, passionate fan base and welcoming vacation spot,” Denver Sports activities Fee Government Director Matthew Payne mentioned.
Coloradans making a distinction | Denver7 featured movies
Denver7 is dedicated to creating a distinction in our group by standing up for what’s proper, listening, lending a serving to hand and following via on guarantees. See that work in motion, within the movies above.
