The Heineken Cup quarter-final SOLD OUT signs have gone up at Le Stadium in Toulouse, Estadio Anoeta in San Sebastian and Parc des Prince in Paris
And with Leinster having only 2,000 tickets left for their clash with double champions Leicester Tigers at Lansdowne Road this season's Heineken quarter-finals are set to be the high impact occasions.
Those are expected to be snapped up in the next few days to make it an astonishing 160,000 fans set to go through the turnstiles at the four prestigious games the weekend after next.
That is over 50,000 more than the tournament's quarter-final record set two seasons ago, while the contest at Lansdowne Road in front of a capacity 48,500 crowd would be yet another new tournament high.
Stade Francais Paris made it three sell-outs when the final few tickets they had for the showdown in the French capital were snapped up.
"All the tickets have been sold several days before the match," said club President Max Guazzini.
"This is the first time a club match in Paris will be played before 45,000 spectators and it demonstrates the interest in our club and rugby in general from Parisians."
