Final chance to grab World Cup tickets

FIFA said the tickets include those of matches for the final, the opening game between South Africa and Mexico and the two semi-finals.

In total there are about 160 000 tickets still available for the public via the current sales channels which are FIFA.com, Call Centre, Ticketing Centres, FNB Branches nationwide and Shoprite/Checkers stores.

FIFA said 34 000 of these tickets are available in category 4 reserved for South Africans only, 28 000 tickets in category 3, 23 000 in category 2 and 75 000 in category 1.

"For the final there are only about 800 tickets left, but for other matches it's up to a few thousand," said FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke.

So far, 96% of the total 2,88 million purchasable tickets have been sold for the tournament. The additional 90 000 tickets for public sale have become available following the finalisation of seating arrangements at all World Cup match venues, after the final stadium inspections have been completed and further adjustments of different ticket allocations.

"The target is to reach about 97 or 98% which would correspond with the figures from the past FIFA World Cups and this would make us very happy," said Valcke.

Local Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan emphasised that this is the last big inventory available for the public.