The decision to make World Cup 2010 tickets available from 11 sales centres across South Africa over the counter and for cash is certainly having the desired effect of improving on previously disappointing sales figures.

Tickets for all 64 games in the 2010 World Cup finals tournament are now available for people in the host nation of South Africa to buy for cash. This even includes tickets to the climactic final itself, which will be held on the 11th of July in Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium.

The costs involved in hosting the World Cup are huge as South Africa is witnessing in first place. They have in fact already forked out over €4.5 billion – that is 34 billion rand to host the event and build the many world-class stadiums needed.

FIFA has now gone through the next (fourth) batch of sales; another total sale of over 400,000 tickets, making it a total of over two million tickets sold till now (including tour operators and the PMA sales). According to FIFA, this amounts to two thirds of the total tickets available in general.

The ticket sales to the 2010 World Cup has started and shows impressive figures comparing to previous World Cup tournaments. The number of tickets applied for has reach half a million within the first 10 days. Of those applications, around 77% were from South African residents.
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The 2010 World Cup Chief and Deputy President Baleka Mbete are encouraging fellow South Africans to buy tickets to the World Cup games. Mbete has spoken to the soccer fans motivating them to buy tickets now rather than wait until they are sold out to the international fans.

The English football fans were in for a shock these past weeks when checking game tickets for the South Africa games next year. As prices stand now, the tickets are very expensive and hard to find with a one in five chance of getting the flight and game ticket they want. So it seems that many will be watching the games in England this time round.

It seems like the 2010 World Cup in South Africa might break a record in tickets sales soon – there have been over 650 000 tickets sold (according to their data as of 28 September 2009).