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UEFA Euro 2008
Tickets (European Cup Tickets)
Fine Things Packages provides UEFA Euro 2008 Tickets to its
clients in its packages. (Click
here to see its Euro
2008 packages). The company also provides hotel and hospitality
packages to those who have already purchased Euro 2008
Tickets. (Click here to
see its Euro 2008 hotels packages.)
How many Euro 2008
tickets will be available for UEFA EURO 2008™?
In total, over
one million UEFA Euro2008 tickets will be available for UEFA
EURO 2008™. Around 75 per cent of the Euro2008 tickets will be
available directly for the supporters through our website or
through the National Associations that will participate in the
final tournament.
Ticket s Options available.
To provide football supporters
with the best possible
service, UEFA has
developed three Ticket opportunities for UEFA EURO 2008™.
(Source Euro2008.com) Most (75%) of the Euro2008 tickets will
be made available to the general public by application and
lottery described in more detail below. Approximately 19% of the
Euro 2008 tickets will be made available to qualifying
countries.
Individual Match
Tickets
Applicants can create their own combination of matches, as they
best fit their requirements. For example, Applicants can choose
all matches in their favourite city or matches within a certain
period of time. Please note that it is not allowed to select two
matches that take place on the same day.
Follow My Team Group
Tickets
FMT Group
allows Applicants to attend all three Group Matches of their
favourite team. If their team does not qualify for UEFA EURO
2008™, their Applications for such UEFA EURO 2008 Tickets will
be cancelled.
Tournament (Follow My
Team Tournament Tickets)
Tournament allows Applicants to attend all the matches of their
favourite team all the way to the Final, depending on how they
progress in the tournament. If their team is eliminated before
the Final, the remaining UEFA EURO 2008 Tickets become invalid
and they will be reimbursed accordingly. If their team does not
qualify for UEFA EURO 2008™, their Application will be
cancelled.
UEFA EURO 2008 Tickets For
Handicapped Persons (Wheelchairs).
A limited number of UEFA Euro 2008 Tickets are available through
UEFA exclusively for those who are unable to attend a match
without a wheelchair due to their physical handicap.
Such Tickets are available in the cheapest price category (price
category 3). Moreover, an additional complimentary ticket is
provided for an accompanying person. If demand exceeds supply
for Tickets for wheelchair spaces at a particular match, all
such Tickets for that match shall be allocated by random
selection via a lottery. In any case, a valid proof of
disability will be required.
UEFA Euro 2008 tickets—Home Advantage for local fans
Stadion Salzburg Wals-Siezenheim
People living in the eight UEFA EURO 2008™ host cities will get
home advantage for Euro2008 ticketing - with 750 seats at each
game being set aside for local residents. UEFA Euro 2008 tickets
will be set aside for 'home' fans at the stadiums in Vienna,
Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Zurich, Basle, Berne and
Geneva, with applicants going into a special pre-draw for their
share of the local allocation of Euro 2008 tickets. Unsuccessful
applicants will then be given a second chance to get a Euro 2008
ticket as their applications will automatically go into the
general draw for Euro2008 tickets.
Eligibility for local Euro2008 tickets will be decided on the
basis of postcodes in some cities, with others being open to all
city residents.
Huge Demand for Euro 2008
Tickets. UEFA
has announced on its web site that every single match at the
finals has been massively oversubscribed after over 500,000 fans
applied for UEFA EURO 2008™ tickets via euro2008.com.
Huge demand
A total of 588,716 supporters from 142 countries submitted
applications for Euro 2008 tickets before the deadline at
midnight on 31 March, ordering a total of 10,359,177 Euro2008
tickets. That is 18 times the demand for UEFA EURO 2004™
tickets and almost as much as for tickets for the 2006 FIFA
World Cup, where 10.8 million tickets were requested.
Individual UEFA Euro
2008 tickets
Of the three types of UEFA Euro 2008 tickets - Individual Match
Euro 2008 Tickets, Follow My Team Group and Follow My Team
Tournament Euro 2008 tickets - the former have been the most
popular, with 417,885 applicants requesting 8,467,919 such
tickets for the 31 matches. The final in Vienna accounted for
651,141 Euro 2008 ticket requests, with 561,565 UEFA Euro 2008
tickets for the semi-final in Basle and 502,081 for the semi in
Vienna.
Dedicated supporters
The Follow My
Team Euro 2008 tickets proved to be particularly popular with
supporters from Germany, Switzerland, England, the Netherlands
and Austria. A total of 119,110 fans requested Follow My Team
Group Euro 2008 tickets - a total of 1,224,564 Euro 2008 tickets
applications - while 51,721 ordered Follow My Team Tournament
Uefa Euro 2008 tickets, accounting for a further 666,694
tickets.
Next steps
As predicted,
all 31 final round games were oversubscribed at the end of the
application process. The validity of applications will now be
checked with 33 per cent of the total 1.05 million Euro 2008
tickets being allocated by a random lottery in mid-April under
the supervision of a notary. All users will be informed of the
status of their Euro2008 ticket applications by the end of
April.
Phase abandoned
Because of the huge initial demand for Euro 2008 tickets, the
second phase of Euro 2008 tickets sales - initially planned to
allocate unsold Euro 2008 tickets on a first come, first served
basis in June 2007 - has now been abandoned. Fans may still be
able to get Euro 2008 tickets via national associations, who
will receive an average of 19 per cent of UEFA Euro 2008 tickets
for all matches involving their team which may be sold to fans
after the draw for the finals in December 2007.
Delivery of UEFA Euro 2008
tickets. The
recipients of UEFA Euro 2008 tickets from UEFAwill be receive
their Euro 2008 tickets approximately two weeks before the
tournament begins. Such Euro2008 tickets will be sent via
registered mail.
Transfer of UEFA Euro2008
Tickets.
Transfer of Euro2008 tickets are allowed under limited
circumstances as fully described on the event web site.
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