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SWC ticket sales booming

Johannesburg - The first seven days of the fourth ticket sales phase for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa has seen a total of 117 589 tickets being sold to 119 countries. 99 042 of those tickets have been sold to South African residents (corresponding to 84 %).

About 11 500 applications are still being processed. This second-last sales phase will run until 7 April 2010. Applications are dealt on a ‘first come, first serve’ basis.

As from today(Tuesday), football fans can now apply for tickets by phone by calling the Call Centre (open from 08:00 – 17:00 CET, 09:00 – 18:00 South African Time):
-  South African number: 083 123 2010
-  International number: +41 44583 2010

Apart from South Africa, the countries with the most tickets sold in this phase are: USA 4 327, UK 1 964,  Mexico 1 898, Australia 1 231 and Germany 1 193.

Since last Tuesday, a total of 110 583 individual match tickets have been sold, as well as 7 006 team specific series tickets. More than 400 000 tickets were made available for the fourth ticketing sales phase.
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