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Buying EURO 2008 ticket to be easier and cheaper
EURO 2008 - 27 February, 2007
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Organisers for the World Cup finals promised an easier system than last year in ordering tickets and announced lower prices for next year's European football championship matches.
Based on a lottery system, tickets will go on sale Thursday via the tournament website and will run until the end of March.
"We will be giving out full details on the cost of tickets on Thursday, but on average they will be cheaper than the tickets for the last World Cup," Martin Kallen, Euro 2008 CEO, told Reuters.
Tickets for the World Cup finals ranged from EUR 35 for cheapest seats at group stage matches to EUR 600 for top category seats at the final.
Fans can apply for up to four tickets per match with the March sales expected to account for nearly 35 percent of the tournament's tickets.
Each club playing in the individual matches will receive 20 percent of the tickets after December's draw for distribution to its supporters. The remaining 25 percent are set aside for sponsors, participating clubs, UEFA and the media.
Switzerland and Austria, which is co-hosting the event, are the only clubs to have qualified for the tournament so far. Fans that buy tickets in March will not be able to choose which clubs they want to watch.
The system guarantees that many fans would end up with tickets for matches they do not want to see but Kallen denies that the blind sale would greatly benefit the black market.
"I'm not sure it would help in that regard to have the ticket sales happening after the draw, because ticket touts could then focus their efforts on the high-interest matches," said Kallen.
"With this system they also don't know what matches they will get, so it makes their risks higher."
Euro 2008 will start in Basel, Switzerland on June 7 and will finish with the final in Vienna, Austria on June 29.
Other Swiss cities hosting matches are Geneva, Zurich and Berne, while Salzburg, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt are the other Austrian cities acting as hosts.
Based on a lottery system, tickets will go on sale Thursday via the tournament website and will run until the end of March.
"We will be giving out full details on the cost of tickets on Thursday, but on average they will be cheaper than the tickets for the last World Cup," Martin Kallen, Euro 2008 CEO, told Reuters.
Tickets for the World Cup finals ranged from EUR 35 for cheapest seats at group stage matches to EUR 600 for top category seats at the final.
Fans can apply for up to four tickets per match with the March sales expected to account for nearly 35 percent of the tournament's tickets.
Each club playing in the individual matches will receive 20 percent of the tickets after December's draw for distribution to its supporters. The remaining 25 percent are set aside for sponsors, participating clubs, UEFA and the media.
Switzerland and Austria, which is co-hosting the event, are the only clubs to have qualified for the tournament so far. Fans that buy tickets in March will not be able to choose which clubs they want to watch.
The system guarantees that many fans would end up with tickets for matches they do not want to see but Kallen denies that the blind sale would greatly benefit the black market.
"I'm not sure it would help in that regard to have the ticket sales happening after the draw, because ticket touts could then focus their efforts on the high-interest matches," said Kallen.
"With this system they also don't know what matches they will get, so it makes their risks higher."
Euro 2008 will start in Basel, Switzerland on June 7 and will finish with the final in Vienna, Austria on June 29.
Other Swiss cities hosting matches are Geneva, Zurich and Berne, while Salzburg, Innsbruck and Klagenfurt are the other Austrian cities acting as hosts.
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