Police say three Greece players at the World Cup have had money stolen from their hotel rooms.

Lt Colonel Leon Engelbrecht said on Thursday the unidentified players reported that 1,600 euro ($A2,313) had been stolen from their rooms on Tuesday night at the Beverly Hills Hotel in the resort of Umhlanga, just north of Durban.

Engelbrecht said the Greek squad has told police it doesn't want a case to be opened over the theft.

The incident happened only hours before three foreign World Cup journalists were robbed, one at gunpoint, at a hotel in Magaliesburg, in the north west of South Africa. The journalists lost money, camera equipment, laptop computers and mobile phones.

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