When Dublin’s Croke Park and Toulouse’s Le Stadium play hosts to this weekend’s Investec Champions Cup semi-finals, it’ll mark a bumper weekend of attendance figures for European rugby’s governing body EPCR.
Because the sell-outs across the Irish Sea – for Leinster’s clash with Northampton Saints – and the English Channel – for Toulouse’s tie against Harlequins – will represent the largest cumulative attendance for a semi-final weekend since 2009.
In that season 15 years ago, Munster hosted Leinster in Croke Park while Cardiff played Leicester Tigers in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium.
Records?
There were 126,420 spectators then and there are expected to be 115,450 this weekend, a figure not surpassed in any previous Champions Cup semi-finals.
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