"Now is the time to avoid the mad rush which will come when the third phase of sales is opened on 5 December," LOC head Danny Jordaan said in a statement.
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"The day before the World Cup draw will have taken place in Cape Town and fans all over the world will be rushing to buy up tickets for the group matches their respective teams will be a part of."
The closing date for tickets for the second phase is November 16.
A total of 665,416 tickets have been sold to date, 354,714 of those in South Africa.
Jordaan said "hundreds of thousands" of South Africans took advantage of the first two ticket sales phases.
"We have sold out of category four tickets in this phase. These tickets were exclusively for sale to South Africans. To date approximately half of the close to 700,000 tickets that have been sold have been bought by South Africans."
There are four ticket categories - one being the most expensive and four the cheapest. There are five ticketing phases which work on a first come first served basis.
There are still tickets left in both the individual match option, where tickets are purchased for a single match at a time, as well as the team-specific option where a fan can follow a team as it progresses through the tournament.
Fans of Brazil and England will have to wait for the next phase to purchase team-specific tickets. Those who want to follow teams like Bafana Bafana, Argentina, Spain, Cote d'Ivoire and Germany can still do so.
Currently the most number of tickets left are at Johannesburg's Soccer City and Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium.
There are two ways to purchase tickets for the tournament. The first is by filling in an application form available from First National Bank branches.
Alternatively an application can be made online by visiting fifa.com
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