Tens of thousands of additional tickets for Euro 2012 games in Ukraine will go on sale as soon as next week, UEFA spokeswoman Emilia Hinkkanen told RIA Novosti on Monday.
The tickets will only be available to people who had earlier applied for the lotteries used to allocate tickets, but had been unsuccessful.
The tickets will be available from the Donbass Arena in Donetsk, the Metalist Kharkiv football club and Ukrsotsbank, the Ukrainian banking arm of Euro 2012 sponsor UniCredit.
"Less than 50,000 are still available and will be sold as from the beginning of May," Hinkkanen said in a statement e-mailed to RIA Novosti.
A small number of tickets are also available in co-host Poland, Hinkkanen said.
“In Poland, there is a very limited number of tickets still available and they will be sold via the ticketing portal of UEFA.com, to those people who had already applied for tickets but were unsuccessful in the lotteries,” she said.
Despite the leftover tickets, UEFA was pleased with sales, she said.
“More than 95 percent of all tickets have already been sold to date which represents a tremendous figure, even higher than what was the case at EURO 2008 before the last phase of sales.”
The ticket design was unveiled in Poland and Ukraine on Monday, and features many security measures to prevent fraud, UEFA’s top Euro 2012 official Martin Kallen said.
“The ticket will have six or seven levels of security. The main ones are the hologram and the unique indentification code. Another five or six elements will be known by the stewards,” Kallen said in comments on the website of the Ukrainian organizing body on Monday.
Out of more than 1.4 million tickets for Euro 2012 games, 77 percent were made available directly to fans, although UEFA estimates that fans will possess 85 percent of the total when corporate promotions and other offers are considered.
The rest of the tickets will go to UEFA guests and corporate sponsors.
