Martin Kallen, the chief operating officer of Euro 2008, said yesterday that all 1.05 million tickets for the tournament in Austria and Switzerland, which starts on Saturday, have been sold and that anyone buying a ticket from now is doing so illegally.“We are obviously trying to stop tickets from being sold on the black market,” Kallen said. “But all tickets now being sold are black-market tickets.”

Organisers of the European Championship finals said that 38 per cent of the tickets went to national federations, 33 per cent to the public and 14 per cent to sponsors and television partners, with the remainder going to hospitality, Uefa members and host city and stadium factions.

Not surprising, there are no tickets left for the UEFA Euro Cup 2008. At least that’s what the Organisation says. Looks like the tickets were put on sale last year already, and with a lottery-like system, will be allocated to the fortunate few. According to the UEFA, each national team has an allocation of tickets and it is up to them what to do with the tickets.
At first sight, it doesn’t seem to be any tickets on sale in Ebay. Neither on the German website or the one in the UK. And on the website of the Spanish Football Association there is no information available about tickets.
Just as the World Cup in Germany some years ago, the resale of the tickets is forbidden and penalised. The prices were, as expected, very high: from 45 Euros for a regular match (75 for the opening game), to 550 for the final. This is not very different for the prices of European football teams. I went to one game of Barcelona FC and ended up paying around 60 Euro per ticket, and it wasn’t against Real Madrid or Valencia, was an average team.
Anyway, I am sure the atmosphere in Switzerland or Austria, will be great. Even with no tickets for the games. Would it be different this year without England?