The first 740 000 tickets for World Cup 2010 go on sale globally at 12h00 tomorrow, reports the BBC.

South Africans are eligible to buy 15 % of the 3 million tickets via the www.fifa.com website, or to go to a branch of First National Bank, where they can fill in an application form.   The prices of tickets have been kept low for South Africans, and range from R 140 for category 4 matches to R 6 300 for the final.

The ticket sales are by application, chosen on a random ballot.  In Germany the World Cup 2006 ticket applications were oversubscribed more than 20-fold.    Each person may only apply for a maximum of four tickets per match, for a maximum of seven matches.

Further ticket sales open on 4 May, 5 December and 9 February 2010.

FIFA’s David Will, chairman of the ticketing committee, said that the impact of the global credit crunch on ticket sales for 2010 is uncertain.