Record Ticket Sales For Euro 2012

04 Apr 2011 | tshego

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More than 12m ticket applications have been received by UEFA for the 2012 European Championships in Poland and Ukraine – according to the European governing body.

The initial application deadline for fans worldwide has passed, with a total of 12,149,425 ticket requests made.

Ticket applications have already surpassed the previous record for the tournament, when 10.4m people applied for ticket to the Euro 2008 championships in Austria and Switzerland.

More than 550,000 tickets are available to the general public for next years competition, and UEFA will stage a lottery from the 19th-22nd April to determine the ticket recipients.

This year fans were limited to applying for a maximum of four tickets each at UEFA’s official website.

UEFA stated that almost 88% of ticket applicants were from Poland and Ukraine, and overall ticket sales are expected to generate Eur100m.