While thousands of soccer fans across the country lined up at various points to purchase tickets in the final phase of the Fifa World Cup soccer ticket sales, about a dozen fans lined up outside the local FNB branch shortly before 9am yesterday.
While thousands of soccer fans across the country lined up at various points to purchase tickets in the final phase of the Fifa World Cup soccer ticket sales, about a dozen fans lined up outside the local FNB branch shortly before 9am yesterday.
The official 2010 Fifa World Cup™ ticket was unveiled recently by Fifa Secretary General Jérôme Valcke and Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan at Maponya Mall in Soweto.
The tickets were made available to the general public recently, when the fifth and final ticketing sales phase kicked off.
This coincided with the opening of the Fifa World Cup ticketing centres in all nine host cities and the start of the over-thecounter sales.
In all, 500 000 tickets for 63 matches (including all host cities and all knock-out matches except the final) were made available.
Five different sales channels will be operating during the fifth and final sales phase, which will run from 15 April to the last day of the tournament 11 July 2010.
There are 11 ticketing centres across the host cities, open seven days a week from 9am until 6pm, including one at the Moffett on Main Lifestyle Centre in Port Elizabeth.
About 600 FNB branches nationwide are open five days a week (including FNB Grahamstown Branch in High Street) where one can order tickets, make payment and get ticket confirmation immediately, but the actual tickets need to be collected at the Fifa ticketing centres or Shoprite/ Checkers sales points.
Tickets can also be purchased from the official tournament website www.fifa.com, or from the call centre hotline – 083 123 2010, open seven days a week from 8am until 10pm.
There are also 18 Shoprite/ Checkers sales points, starting from 9am on 19 April and open seven days a week, including Redhouse and Shoprite Newton Park, both in Port Elizabeth.
Fans applying at the ticketing centres will be required to display ID and pay by credit card or cash. A total of 240 000 tickets were sold in the fourth phase, 85% of which went to South African residents. Overall, 2.2 million tickets have been sold for the tournament.
