More World Cup Tickets To Go On Sale Friday
by (Article | Yahoo - May 26)
Another 150,000 World Cup tickets will go on sale Friday, including tickets for the World Cup final. more details | go to article
Valcke: African Fans Not Priced Out
by (Article | ESPN - March 2)
FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke has rejected claims that African football fans are being priced out of the World Cup in South Africa. more details | go to article
FIFA Denies African Fans Priced Out Of World Cup
by (Article | BBC - March 2)
"It will be a real African World Cup," Jerome Valcke told the BBC. Most stadiums would be sold out, he added. However, fans in the African countries that have qualified say tickets are being sold on the internet, to which they have limited access. more details | go to article
African World Cup Ticket-Buying Experiences
by (Commentary | BBC - March 2)
BBC News website readers have been reacting to Fifa's denial that African football fans are being priced out of the World Cup in South Africa. more details | go to article
Tickets Sales Lag With Four Months To Go
by (Article | Soccer America - February 18)
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke confirmed what had been reported for weeks. World Cup ticket sales are suffering. Twenty percent of VIP tickets for luxury boxes have been sold. And the number of expected visitors to South Africa for the World Cup has been revised downward by as much as 100,000. more details | go to article
FIFA Admits World Cup Ticket Prices Too High
by (Article | Telegraph - February 18)
Thousands of extra World Cup tickets will be offered to South African residents to ensure all matches are sold out following disappointing sales to overseas supporters, said Fifa on Thursday. more details | go to article
One-Third Of World Cup Tickets Remain
by (Article | ESPN - February 10)
World soccer's governing body says one-third of World Cup tickets remain unsold less than five months before the tournament is to begin in South Africa. more details | go to article
U.S. Fans Priced Out Of World Cup Trip
by (Article | ESPN - January 30)
Stacy Schwartz has tickets for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. She was going to go. Was. more details | go to article
South Africa World Cup 'Snubbed By Foreign Fans'
by (Article | BBC - January 27)
The football World Cup in South Africa will be played in front of fewer foreign fans than initially expected, says governing body Fifa. more details | go to article
500,000 Tickets Requested So Far
by (Press Release | FIFA - December 14)
The third ticketing sales phase for the 2010 FIFA World Cup has seen the number of tickets applied for hit the 500,000 mark within the first ten days. 386,300 of those tickets were requested by South African residents (77 per cent of the total applications), while 114,237 tickets applied for came from the rest of the world. more details | go to article
Fury At World Cup Ticket Allocation
by (Article | Daily Mail (UK) - December 7)
Fans have blasted World Cup 2010 chiefs after England were given just 15,716 tickets - while sponsors and VIPs get two million. more details | go to article
England Fans Set To Enjoy Box Seats At World Cup Finals In South Africa
by (Article | London Times - December 7)
England fans might have the chance to pick up last-minute tickets for the 2010 World Cup — as long as they do not mind eating prawn sandwiches. more details | go to article
World Cup Ticket Warning
by (Press Release | TheFA.com (England) - December 3)
The FA calls for football fans to be vigilant against World Cup ticket touting. more details | go to article
England, US Leading World Cup Ticket Buyers
by (Article | Yahoo - March 20)
England and the United States are the leading ticket-buyers for next year’s World Cup in South Africa. more details | go to article
FIFA Reports 'Huge' World Cup Ticket Demand
by (Article | Yahoo - March 20)
FIFA said on Friday that ticket demand for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was booming but voiced caution about the impact of a prolonged economic crisis. more details | go to article