We are getting inundated with requests for World Cup 2010 tickets, news and information and we don't have anything new to tell you. By writing a small article about the process we can send everyone interested in knowing more to this page.

Basically the ticketing system will be controlled by FIFA and there will approximately 3,000,000 tickets available for the 64 matches that will take place in South Africa during 2010.

Of those 3,000,000 tickets a third will go to sponsors, the teams and the FIFA family. Another third will go to international visitors and the last million tickets will go to South African residents or possibly residents of Africa.

Danny Jordaan has promised to make the tickets affordable for South African residents so pricing isn't going to be a shock. The only concern is if the one million tickets for South Africa has to be spread over Africa.

As of 2005 there was an estimated 890,000,000 people living in Africa which means not everyone that wants a ticket is going to get one, so FIFA will manage the allocation of tickets as a lottery.

When tickets go on sale you will need to visit a special website that will be set up by FIFA and request what matches you want tickets for and the number you require.

Ticket sales will likely take place in 2009 and you will be given lots of notice. The website will also probably go up several months before ticket sales begin so you will be able to gather all the information you need and it will answer every possible question you may have.

Now, we don't mind you all asking and if there is something that we haven't made clear, please feel free to contact us. We are here to help, if we can.

An expected timeline for when tickets will go on sale can be viewed here.