England rugby supporters face a mad dash for World Cup final tickets after the team’s heroics over New Zealand sent prices rocketing.

Demand for tickets to see England take on South Africa in Yokohama, Japan, next weekend has seen some seats costing well in excess of £11,000 on re-sale sites like Viagogo.

British Airways has also announced a spike in interest for flights to Tokyo following England’s semi-final on Saturday morning.

Google also noticed two spikes in searches for tickets over the weekend, the first coinciding with England’s victory, the other in the moments before Wales’ match with South Africa kicked off on Sunday morning.

A British Airways spokesman said: ‘Since England’s amazing win, we’ve seen a 184% surge in the number of people looking at flights to Tokyo on ba.com.

‘As it stands, we only have a tiny number of seats left on our twice-daily flights to the Japanese capital this coming week, but we’re exploring a number of options to help fans get there.’

A shortage of seats on direct flights might also tempt supporters to look at making multiple stops around the globe in order to get to Yokohama.

England fan Mark Wood, 25, who now lives in Hanoi, Vietnamese, said he booked his flight to Japan moments after the team’s win – but will be travelling without a ticket for the final.

He said: ‘Straight away we were looking on tickets sites like Viagogo and StubHub, but they were all coming in stupidly expensive, over £1,000, which we weren’t willing to pay.

‘If it gets closer to the game and that’s our only option we might be more inclined to spend that money, but we’re definitely looking for a cheaper option first.

‘Since then we’ve been looking on Twitter, Facebook, talking to friends we know who are out there just seeing if anyone’s got any leads on anyone selling tickets, any New Zealand fans who had them for the final, or now any Wales fans I guess that no longer want them.

‘We’re hoping we can hopefully get some of the cheaper ones – I think they go for about 25000 yen (£180).

‘Ideally the cheapest tickets we can get, it would be nice just to be inside the stadium, but if we don’t manage that then I think it’ll be the fan zone outside soaking up the atmosphere.

‘Some of the more expensive ones I’ve seen are up to £5,000 online, which is silly money.’

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