Johannesburg - Police officers, binmen, traffic officials and other City of Johannesburg workers pulled on football boots and hit the pitch at Soccer City, the World Cup showpiece stadium, for a tournament on Friday.
Around 20,000 mostly family members and friends watched as teams of workers filed out onto the turf for games lasting about 20 minutes.
The games, which were played mostly two at a time in opposite halves of the pitch, are the first at the venue of the opening game and final of the Cup since it was officially completed earlier this month, according to the World Cup local organizing committee.
Soccer City, which is located in Soweto township on the south- western outskirts of Johannesburg, received a 3.8 billion-rand (512 million dollar) facelift.
With a capacity of 94,000 seats it is the biggest stadium in Africa.
Many of the spectators came clad in the yellow jerseys of the South African national team Bafana Bafana, as the national Football Friday campaign starts to gain traction.
The campaign urges citizens to get behind the national team in the run-up to the June 11-July 11 World Cup by wearing the jersey, and flying the national flag.
Many also had vuvuzelas - the plastic trumpets with the braying sound beloved of local football fans.