UEFA President Michel Platini yesterday launched sales of tickets for the Euro 2012 football championship to be co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine at a special ceremony at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, with a similar event held simultaneously in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.
The ceremony in Warsaw was attended by Polish Football Association chairman Grzegorz Lato and tournament ambassadors Zbigniew Boniek and Andrzej Szarmach.
At both ceremonies winners of a UEFA promotional lottery received four tickets each for Poland and Ukraine`s first matches of the finals. Pawel Michalczak was the lucky football fan who won the tickets in Warsaw.
The Euro 2012 tickets are available exclusively via UEFA.com until 31 March. Tickets cost from 30 to 600 euros, depending on the match and seating location. There are some 1.4 million seats available for the tournament.
So far some 591,161 people from 161 countries have registered to purchase tickets but yesterday they were unable to choose which matches they wanted to attend due to heavy traffic on the UEFA website.
If demand exceeds supply for a particular match and category, a lottery will be conducted in April to select the 600,000 lucky fans who will get to watch the tournament live. The rest will be reserved for special guests, sponsors, partners and sports activists, UEFA, the Polish football association, alongside other national football associations.
Euro 2012 kicks off in Warsaw on June 8, 2012 and ends with the final in Kiev on July 1.
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