World Cup 2010: 100,000 Tickets Sold Within 24 Hours In Over-The-Counter Sales

Tickets continue to go like hot cakes in South African general sale phase.The demand for tickets around the 2010 FIFA World Cup host country of South Africa continues to grow as the fifth and last sales phase enters its second day.

The first 24 hours saw a total of just over 100,000 tickets sold as thousands upon thousands of football fans queued at the 11 ticketing centres in host cities and the 600 FNB branches nationwide.

“We are very pleased with the interest and with the latest figures,” emphasised Horst R. Schmidt, chairman of the FIFA Ticketing Sub-Committee in a statement.

As of noon today, tickets for a number of knockout stage matches, including three Round of 16 games, one quarter-final and the third and fourth place play-off, as well as 28 group games, were still available.

Due to the high demand, seats for a total of 29 matches are no longer available (including the final, the two semi-finals and the opening game as well as all games in Durban and Cape Town).

Tickets for these games might still come back - but only in small quantities - to the public sales in the future, according to the press release.