London 2012: More Millennium Stadium tickets on sale

The stadium will host the first event of the London 2012 games on 25 July

More tickets for Olympics football at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium are going on public sale, including for the first event of the Games.

The stadium will host 11 matches, with the Games' first event pitching GB women against New Zealand on 25 July.

Tickets will be sold via a website from 11:00 BST on Wednesday on a first come, first served basis.

Stadium manager Gerry Toms said it was "fantastic news" for fans who had previously missed out.

Among the games scheduled for the stadium between 25 July and 10 August is Great Britain's men's team versus Uruguay on 1 August.

Football fans will also have the opportunity to watch Brazil, seeded as the "all-time top Olympic performer", play Egypt in Cardiff on 26 July.

Mr Toms said sports fans would want to be "part of the first ever Olympic Games in Wales."

'Good availability'

The Olympic football tournament will take place at six UK venues, including the Millennium Stadium.

London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Locog) said there was good ticket availability across the football venues.

Customers can purchase between 20 and 30 tickets for the Olympic football matches.

Locog commercial director Chris Townsend said customers would be able to browse the tickets website to see what tickets were available.

"Our priority has been to get as many people who missed out in the sales process last year to the Games," said Mr Townsend.

"We have delivered on our promise and now another 150,000 people have successfully purchased up to four tickets each.

"We are now putting the remaining tickets back on general sale."

Mr Townsend said he expected the website to be very busy and warned that customers may well be held in queues for over 30 minutes at peak times.