Rugby League World Cup 2013

2013 is set to be another incredible year for sport as the Rugby League World Cup comes to London for a fantastic semi-final double-header. Don't miss the world's best Rugby League teams in action. During european tours or independent tours created by european trip planner,on our web, you can visit to London for very interesting Rugby League World Cup in November. Hosted by England and Wales, the 2013 Rugby League World Cup brings one of the world's best spectator sports to London for a semi-final showdown. Teams from around the globe, including Australia, Ireland, France, Scotland and the USA, as well as hosts England and Wales, will challenge 2008 winners New Zealand for the title. Wembley Stadium will host the World Cup semi-finals in an unmissable double-header on Saturday 23 November, with the final due to be held at Old Trafford, Manchester on 30 November. Book your tickets now by clicking on the booking button below and benefit from special offers, as well as "Scrum Packages" and family tickets so you can share the experience.
Wembley Stadium
The stadium's first turf was cut by King George V, and it was first opened to the public on 28 April 1923. First known as the British Empire Exhibition Stadium or simply Empire Stadium, it was built by Sir Robert McAlpine for the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 (extended to 1925). The stadium cost £750,000, and was constructed on the site of an earlier folly called Watkin's Tower. The architects were Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton and the Head Engineer Sir Owen Williams. It was originally intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved at the suggestion of Sir James Stevenson, a Scot who was chairman of the organising committee for the Empire Exhibition. The ground had been used for football as early as the 1880s . At the end of the exhibition, an entrepreneur Arthur Elvin (later to become Sir Arthur Elvin) started buying the derelict buildings one by one, demolishing them, and selling off the scrap. The stadium had gone into liquidation, after it was pronounced "financially unviable".Elvin offered to buy the stadium for £127,000, using a £12,000 downpayment and the balance plus interest payable over ten years. After complications following the death of James White the original Stadium owner, Elvin bought Wembley Stadium from the new owners, (Wembley Company) at the original price, since they honoured Elvin's original deal. They then immediately bought it back from Elvin, leaving him with a healthy profit. Instead of cash he received shares, which gave him the largest stake in Wembley Stadium and he became chairman. The electric scoreboard and the all encircling roof, made from aluminium and translucent glass, were added in 1963.
The Royal Box in 1986.
The stadium's distinctive Twin Towers became its trademark and nickname.Also well known were the thirty-nine steps needed to be climbed to reach the Royal box and collect a trophy (and winners'/losers' medals). Wembley was the first pitch to be referred to as "Hallowed Turf", with many stadia around the world borrowing this phrase. In 1934, the Empire Pool was built nearby. The 'Wembley Stadium Collection' is held by the National Football Museum. The stadium closed in October 2000, and was demolished in 2003 for redevelopment. The top of one of the twin towers was erected as a memorial in the park on the north side of Overton Close in the Saint Raphael's Estate.