World football body FIFA on Thursday said it will release 150,000 World Cup tickets - including seats at the opening and final matches - for next month's tournament in South Africa.

"All together, for the 64 games, it's 150,000 tickets we'll put back in the system," said secretary general Jerome Valcke at the handing over of Cape Town's stadium ahead of the June 11 kick-off.

Tickets were available in all price categories and ranged from 200 seats at the South Africa-France match in Bloemfontein on June 22, to 2,000 seats for the semi-finals.

"It's all categories. It's from game one to game 64," said Valcke.

Details of the new tickets will be released on Thursday and go on sale on Friday morning, Valcke said.

South Africans have bought 1.3 million tickets of the roughly three million available, which Valcke said was a "very good response".

"We are very pleased with the final result. We were a bit concerned a few months ago, now we are definitely pleased," he said.

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