Stadia for the RWC 2007

The 2007 Rugby World Cup is being hosted by France with Scotland and Wales also hosting matches, Ireland were to host as well but improvements to Lansdowne Road are not yet in place and the Irish Rugby Union decided to pull out. The stadiums being used have almost all been venues for previous World Cups both Rugby and Football and are well known to the spectators from most if not all of the nations attending.

The map below is clickable and you can click on any the stadia to find out more about the venue:

   
Ediburgh's Murrayfield
 
Cardiff's Millennium Stadium
 
Len's Felix Bollaert
Stade De France
Paris's Parc De Princes
Nantes's La Beaujoire Stadium
Bordeaux's Chaban Delmas
Lyon's Gerland Stadium  
Saint Etienne's Geoffroy Guichard Stadium
Montpellier's Mosson Stadium
  Toulouse's Stadium
Montpellier's Mosson Stadium Marseilles' Velodrome
 

Cities Hosting

The northern most venue will be Murrayfield in Edinburgh Scotland, with the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff Wales being the western. France hosts the majority of fixtures from Lens in the north, then Saint Denis followed by Paris, Nantes at the mouth of the river Loire, across to the east of the country and Lyon, just a little further south to Saint Etienne, back across to the west and the beautiful city of Bordeaux, then to the south and the home of Airbus Toulouse, across to Montpellier and finally the majestic port of Marseille.