Nine internationals on six days at Allianz Stadium from 8 November, then Big Game 18 on 28 December: kick-offs, road closures and parking zone hours.

Six more 82,000 event days are due at Allianz Stadium between 8 and 29 November, then Harlequins’ Big Game on 28 December, and on each of them a ring of Twickenham streets becomes a one-day parking zone and three roads close either side of the whistle.

The council keeps the list. Its Twickenham rugby and event parking page, last updated on 5 August 2026, carries the fixture table, the expected crowd for each date and the rules that follow from the size of it.

Updated 30 September: the stadium has now dated Harlequins’ Big Game 18. It is Bank Holiday Monday 28 December, a double header with kick-offs at 2pm and 5pm.

The dates and kick-off times

These are the council’s own figures, which match the kick-off times on the England Rugby fixture list.

Date Event Kick-off Expected crowd
Sun 8 Nov 2026 England v Australia 3.10pm 82,000
Sat 14 Nov 2026 England v Japan 4.40pm 82,000
Sat 21 Nov 2026 England v New Zealand 2.10pm 82,000
Fri 27 Nov 2026 Nations Cup finals 4.40pm and 8.10pm 82,000 each day (TBC)
Sat 28 Nov 2026 Nations Cup finals 1.10pm and 4.40pm 82,000 each day (TBC)
Sun 29 Nov 2026 Nations Cup finals 1.10pm and 4.40pm 82,000 each day (TBC)
Mon 28 Dec 2026 Harlequins Big Game 18 2pm and 5pm not given

The last weekend in November is the one to note. The Nations Championship finals bring two matches a day on three consecutive days, which is six full-house afternoons and evenings in 72 hours. Nothing on this scale has run here before, and the council has marked the crowd figure itself as still to be confirmed.

The three November internationals replace what used to be called the Autumn Nations Series. The stadium’s own England v Australia page explains the change: rounds 4 to 6 of the new Nations Championship now take the November window, with the finals weekend as the conclusion.

Harlequins’ Big Game 18 still has “December, date TBC” on the council’s table, but the stadium’s own Big Game 18 page now gives Bank Holiday Monday 28 December 2026. It is a double header: Harlequins Women play Loughborough Lightning at 2pm, then Harlequins play Northampton Saints, the Premiership champions, at 5pm. The council has not yet published a crowd figure for it, which is what decides whether the full parking zone applies.

When the roads close

The council names the roads that can be affected:

  • Rugby Road
  • Whitton Road, between London Road and Kneller Road
  • London Road, between King Street and Whitton Road

Closures typically go in around 1.5 to 2 hours before and after an event, and the council says the exact timing and duration depend on how heavy the pedestrian flow is and what time the match starts. So a 2.10pm kick-off and an 8.10pm kick-off produce very different afternoons on Whitton Road.

Bus routes 281 and 481 stop within a minute’s walk of the ground, and the stadium’s own getting here page flags both as subject to diversion once the road closures go in. Routes 681 and 110 also stop close by, H20 is a five-minute walk and 267 is eight.

The specific closure order for each match is published nearer the time as a temporary traffic order, not on the parking page. Our Richmond roadworks and travel page tracks those as they appear.

The event-day parking zone

Zone hours are 11am to 11pm on event days. That is the single number most people get wrong, because it has nothing to do with kick-off: an 8.10pm match still has restrictions running from 11 in the morning.

The council introduces the Twickenham Event Zone, formally Controlled Parking Zone R, when it expects 25,000 people or more. Above 30,000 it usually implements the full CPZ, which covers a large number of roads in the area. At around 30,000 it uses a smaller sub-CPZ covering only the roads immediately opposite the stadium. Every fixture in the table above is well past both thresholds, so assume the full zone.

The zone is run jointly by Richmond and Hounslow, which is why the boundary does not stop at the borough line. England Rugby’s ticketing note on the CPZ gives the two parking offices: Twickenham on 020 8744 2131, Hounslow on 020 8583 6666.

If you live inside it

Residents and businesses inside Zone R can apply for free one-year permits for themselves and their visitors. Permits for the Heatham (HM), Cole Park (C), Whitton Road (WR), Whitton South (WS) and Whitton Central (WC) zones stay valid on event days with no extra permit needed, as long as they are displayed properly.

The catch runs the other way. Zone R permits are only valid when Zone R is operating, and they are not valid during the days and times the neighbouring zones operate.

Blue Badge holders may park within the Twickenham Event Zone on event days.

If you are driving to the match

Stadium parking must be pre-booked through the official ticketing site; there is no turn-up-and-pay. When the on-site car parks close before a match, the stadium offers the Continental Tyres Rosebine Car Park instead, a ten-minute walk away.

Twickenham sits inside the expanded ULEZ. A non-compliant vehicle anywhere in TW2 costs £12.50 a day.

Our parking in Richmond page covers the council car parks and their tariffs the rest of the time.

Getting there without a car

Walking times from the stadium’s own page:

From Walk
Twickenham rail 10 minutes
Whitton rail 20 minutes
Hounslow rail 30 minutes
Hounslow East tube 30 minutes
Richmond rail and tube 45 minutes

Twickenham station is the obvious choice and therefore the crowded one. Whitton, one stop further out, is a 20-minute walk and a much shorter queue after the final whistle.

Bike racks are in the south-east corner of the stadium by the ticket office.

Tickets

As of 30 September the England Rugby fixture list still shows England v New Zealand on 21 November as sold out. England v Australia is on sale from £79 and England v Japan from £51; hospitality for the Japan match is sold out. The New Zealand match was listed from £103 before it sold out.

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