| Venues | ||
|---|---|---|
| City | Stadium | Capacity |
| Paris | Stade de France | 80,000 |
| London | Twickenham Stadium | 75,000 |
| Cardiff | Millennium Stadium | 74,500 |
| Edinburgh | Murrayfield Stadium | 67,500 |
| Glasgow | Hampden Park | 52,500 |
| Dublin | Lansdowne Road | 49,250 |
| Lens | Stade Félix Bollaert | 41,800 |
| Bordeaux | Parc Lescure | 38,327 |
| Toulouse | Stadium Municipal | 37,000 |
| Huddersfield | McAlpine Stadium | 24,500 |
| Bristol | Ashton Gate | 21,500 |
| Béziers | Stade de la Méditerranée | 18,000 |
| Leicester | Welford Road Stadium | 16,500 |
| Wrexham | Racecourse Ground | 15,500 |
| Limerick | Thomond Park | 13,500 |
| Belfast | Ravenhill Stadium | 12,500 |
| Llanelli | Stradey Park | 10,800 |
| Galashiels | Netherdale | 6,000 |
Wales won the right to host the World Cup in 1999. The centrepiece venue for the tournament was the Millennium Stadium, built on the site of the old National Stadium at Cardiff Arms Park at a cost of £126 million from Lottery money and private investment. Other venues in Wales were the Racecourse Ground and Stradey Park. An agreement was reached so that the other unions in the Five Nations Championship (England, France, Ireland and Scotland) also hosted matches.
Venues in England included Twickenham and Welford Road, rugby union venues, as well as Ashton Gate in Bristol and the McAlpine (now Galpharm) Stadium in Huddersfield, which normally host football. Scottish venues included Murrayfield Stadium, the home of the Scottish Rugby Union, Hampden Park, the home of the Scottish Football Association and the smallest venue in the 1999 tournament, Netherdale, in Galashiels, in the Scottish Borders. Venues in Ireland included Lansdowne Road, the traditional home of the Irish Rugby Football Union, Ravenhill, the Northern Ireland IRFU owned venue and Thomond Park. France used five venues, the most of any nation, including the French national stadium, Stade de France, which hosted the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
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