Rugby Gets Head Start

Official sponsor of the Rugby World Cup, SNCF will be responsible for transporting the participating teams throughout the tournament.

The SNCF Group has committed to transporting teams, supporters, and volunteers to the stadiums, and to delivering equipment to make the event an eco-friendly and low CO2-emission event. Quite a challenge considering that 2.5 million spectators, including 600,000 international visitors, are expected across 30 stations.

To ensure the movement of the 20 international delegations and the thousands of supporters expected in the 10 host cities, the SNCF group can rely on all its divisions: transportation by SNCF Voyageurs for teams, referees, and volunteers; logistics services from GEODIS for organizers and teams; bus transportation by Keolis for local travel; welcoming and guiding supporters and teams with SNCF Gares & Connexions. Don’t look further, nothing is missing.

Furthermore, by choosing to have teams travel aboard commercial trains instead of special trains, this unprecedented cooperation halves the carbon footprint of team, referee, and organizing committee mobility.

When using commercial trains, fixed schedules are a given. Since teasing is a distinctly Gaulish art, our beloved transport company’s punctuality will need to be exemplary. It would be a shame to see only one team on the field at the start of a match while all eyes from the Rugby World are focused on us.

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