UEFA postpones deadline for Euro 2012 ticket payment

UEFA postpones deadline for Euro 2012 ticket payment

WARSAW, May 26 (Xinhua) -- UEFA postponed the deadline forpayment for tickets for Euro 2012 soccer matches from May 25 to June20, Euro 2012 Poland company spokesperson Juliusz Gluski said onThursday.

The draw was held in April. A computer installed at UEFA seat inNyon, under the supervision of a notary, randomly selected fans whocan buy tickets for Euro 2012 soccer matches out of 12,149,425applications from 206 countries.

Fans have been entitled to 41 percent or 575,000 tickets of thetotal pool of 1.4 million. Thirty two percent of tickets wereconveyed to national federations, sponsors, UEFA guests and businesspackage purchasers. Tickets cost from EUR 30 to 600 depending on thecategory and the importance of the match.

Fans will have still an additional chance to buy tickets from apool of 32 percent admission cards at the disposal of the nationalfootball federations. Tickets owned by the Polish FootballAssociation (PZPN) will be sold via the Internet at a later date.

The Euro 2012 soccer championship, to be hosted by Poland andUkraine from June 8 to July 1, 2012, will take place in four Polishcities of Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Poznan as well as fourUkrainian cities of Kiev, Lvov, Donetsk and Kharkov.