Two happy football fans celebrate as they get some of the first tickets for the Confederations Cup

With just 24 days to the kick-off of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 a total of 383,506 tickets have now been sold (this corresponds to 63 % of the total number of tickets available).

The following tickets (stated per category) are no longer available:

· Match 1 (RSA vs. IRQ): categories 3, 4

· Match 3 (BRA vs. EGY): category 4

· Match 4 (USA vs. ITA): category 4

· Match 7 (USA vs. BRA): categories 2, 3, 4

· Match 11 (BRA vs. ITA): all categories

· Match 14 (Semi-final Johannesburg): category 4

· Match 16 (Final, Johannesburg): category 4

A football fan shows off his tickets for the Confederations CupEllis Park in Johannesburg

So far 25,000 tickets have been sold over the counter since the opening of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 Ticketing Centres. The majority of tickets have been purchased and collected at Johannesburg (33,509), followed by Pretoria (12.159), Bloemfontein (7,521) and Rustenburg (2,055).

About 80,000 tickets have been confirmed during the second sales phase for the 2010 FIFA World Cup

To date, during the first come first served process in the second ticketing phase for 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, a total of 79,105 tickets have been confirmed (68,610 Individual Match Tickets, 10,495 Team Series Tickets). An additional 100,000 tickets are currently being processed (confirmations are due at the end of this week).-FIFA.com

Everybody is wanting to watch their favorite teams and cheer for them, and i know that they will do what ever they can to buy tickets and witness this beautiful game in the whole planet.