London 2012 Olympics: 500,000 football tickets removed to ensure full stadiums Apart from the sluggish football demand, other ticket sales have continued at a strong pace, with just 50,000 on sale today, and a further 250,000 to go online in the next ten days. The decision to withdraw the excess football tickets, most of which were on sale for £20, will cost organisers lost revenue of about £10 million but comes as the tickets at Hampden Park, Glasgow, and Cardiff's Millenium Stadium have been particularly hard to sell. The appetite for free football tickets to schoolchildren - paid for by a surcharge on hospitality tickets - also appears to have reached full capacity. Locog officials say they are still on track to reach their ticket revenue target of £600m by the time of the Games opening on July 27. London 2012 Olympics tickets: Football- 500,000 withdrawn from sale 250,000 on sale now 250,000 to go on sale in the next 10 days 150,000 offered on the Ticketshare scheme Non-football- 50,000 on sale now 250,000 to go on sale in the next 10 days The upper tier of seats at the Millennium Stadium will be closed for all games but Locog chairman Lord Coe said reducing the size of the football venues had not impacted on the strong sales of football tickets across the board. "We have reduced the size of venues but we have sold more football tickets than anywhere else," he said. We are not in bad shape with tickets. Withdrawing the tickets may also help Locog with its overall percentage of ticket sales, which last year were said to be "sold out." Originally there were a total of 8.8 million tickets on sale, but additional tickets were found for park entry and the Orbit observation tower, and last minute charges for Box Hill road cycling events and the road time trials.