With schedule now nearly set, more World Cup tickets going on sale Thursday

Another batch of World Cup tickets hit the primary market Thursday morning, with fans focused on the recently unveiled match schedule and their ballooning credit card balances

Another batch of World Cup tickets hit the primary market Thursday morning, with fans focused on the recently unveiled match schedule and their ballooning credit card balances.

This will be the first box office sale since last week's draw determined group settings and nearly the full listing of matchups, dates and times.

Previous ticket sales were just for dates and venues, without the benefit of knowing which teams would be playing at each site and time slot.

Now, 42 of the tournament's 48 teams have already qualified and consumers can shop for their individual favorite teams, as long as they're among the 3½ dozen squads to have already punched their tickets for North America for this summer.

Six more slots are still open and will be filled in the coming months, with squads such as four-time champion Italy, sentimental favorite Ukraine or Turkey, seeking its first tournament appearance since its third-place finish of 2002, vying for those cherished spots.