On Saturday FIFA,World football body, said that it raised the number of cheapest World Cup tickets to manage to sit more South Africans viewers into stadiums at Africa's first World Cup during June and July.
According to the Johannesburg Saturday Star, FIFA decreased the price of at least 30 percent of category 2 and 3 tickets, which cost up to 840 rand (110 dollars/ 80 euros), to 140 rand.
"We made clear right from the start of ticketing that we aim to increase the number of Cat (category) 4 tickets to up to 20 percent," on Saturday,FIFA said in a statement.
"This does not affect the already sold tickets."
Jerome Valcke, FIFA secretary general said this week that the football body was targeting approximately 20 percent ticket sales to South Africans.
Valcke said "We will increase the number of category four tickets because we cannot have a situation where the FIFA World Cup is in South Africa and people cannot see matches," .
on Saturday, FIFA said the recategorisation referd to that more tickets would be printed or distributed to the cheapest category except the seats currently available.
The organisation said,"It is not about dropping prices. The prices are not touched. The price for category 4 start at R140 for group games"
A total of 2.1 million tickets out of 2.9 million available have been sold for the tournament.
South Africans bought 898,170 tickets, followed by 121,190 in the United States and 98,056 in the United Kingdom.
Local fans had revealed the dissatisfaction about the high price of tickets and the rigid online application process that resulted in low amount of sales in the country.
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