UEFA Bombarded with Over 2m Euro ’12 Ticket Requests

European soccer’s governing body UEFA has received more than 2 million ticket requests upon the opening of UEFA Euro 2012 ticket sales – though fans still have until 31 March to make an application, conducted exclusively via Uefa.com.

Just ten days have elapsed since the ticket sales began for next years’ UEFA European Football Championship taking place in Poland and Ukraine between 8 June and 1 July 2012, with more than 2 million requests notched worldwide.

Around 700,000 people from 178 countries registered for an account on Uefa.com and the demand for the various types of tickets available for Euro 2012 has already exceeded supply in the case of 28 of the 31 matches of the final tournament.

This means that lotteries, to be carried out in April, will decide the allocation of tickets for all oversubscribed matches.

The three Group D games not involving Ukraine – two in Kyiv and one in Donetsk – still have a few hundreds tickets left and present the best chance for applicants, particularly due to the large capacity of these stadiums.

Around 90 per cent of the overall requests are believed to have originated from the co-host nations of Poland and Ukraine, though other countries such as Germany, with 3.3 per cent, and Russia, with 1.9 per cent, also have high subscriber numbers.

Moreover, Follow My Team tickets for Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain and Ukraine are already oversubscribed and several other nations are very close to reaching that point.

All requests will be treated equally between the date when applications are made during the sales window of 1-31 March is not important, so all requests made within the month will enter the ballots.