FIFA releases more tickets including final
FIFA released 90 000 tickets today, 28 May 2010, for public sale across all 64 matches, including the final, the opening game and the two semi-finals. In total, there are about 160 000 tickets still available for the public via the current sales channels (FIFA.com, Call Centre, Ticketing Centres, FNB Branches and Shoprite/Checkers). Pity the system crashed again.
Of these, 34 000 are available in category 4 (the most affordable for South African residents only), 28 000 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 thousands," explained FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke.
So far, 96 % of the 2.88 million tickets have been sold. "The target is to reach about 97 or 98 % which would correspond with the figures from the past FIFA World Cups," said Valcke.