2010 World Cup Tickets Now on Sale

February 19, 2009

2010 World Cup tickets go on sale tomorrow at 11am with prices ranging from £14 for the lowest category first- round match upto £600 for a seat at the final which will be held in the Johannesburg Soccer City Stadium.

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The tickets will be sold through Fifas website in 5 phases with there being 740,000 going onsale out of the 3 million total that will be available.

For the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany there were 20 million requests during the first sales phase for 750,000 available tickets, said former German Football Federation general secretary Horst Schmidt.

Two types of tickets are available for purchase; individual match tickets and a team-specific ticket series package, allowing fans to follow the national team of their choice.

You are able to order upto 4 tickets per match for a maximum of 7 matches. You can apply for tickets for all the countries that it is still possible for them to qualify for the 2010 World Cup and you would receive a refund if they do not make it to the tournament.

The first phase of sales runs from 20 February to 15 April and will see successful applicants chosen in a random ballot.

The physical tickets will be issued in April next year through specially created automatic teller machines situated around the venues in South Africa.

Three further ticket sale phases will follow from 4 May to 16 November, 5 December to 22 January; with the final phase running from 9 February to 7 April 2010. To receive notification of these phases sign up to our alerts service here.

Fifa has said, however, that it is unsure whether tickets for the World Cup will sell out, given the current global recession.

“I’d be a very stupid person to say there will not be any effect on the World Cup from the global recession,” David Will, chairman of Fifa’s World Cup ticketing committee said.

“The problem is we don’t know just how big an impact it will have on the World Cup.

“Early completion of stadiums will allow us to determine the exact number of tickets to be made available, for now we have approximately three million tickets available,” he said.

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