Big rush for World Cup tickets
Published:Wednesday | April 1, 2009 | 6:01 PM
FIFA has received more than one point six million ticket requests for next year\'s World Cup tournament in South Africa.
Fans from 205 countries applied in the first phase of online sales, which closed at midnight last night. The tickets will be allocated in a lottery on April 15.
South African residents made around 30 percent of the total one point six million ticket requests for seats.
Fans from the United States made the most applications from abroad, followed by fans in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Australia.
The most popular requests on the 64-match program were for the opening game on June 11 and the final on July 11.
Fans who are allocated tickets in the lottery will find out by e-mail or text message by the end of April.