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Jack Burkitt
About half (or maybe slightly more) of the tickets for Euro and WC tournament matches go on general sale. The first sales phase will be before qualifying has even finished let alone the draw being made, which isn't ideal if you want to see a particular team obviously but good if you just fancy a few matches. Usually the first sales phase is a lottery rather than first come first serve, some time later this year there will be the opportunity to apply for tickets over a period of several weeks, then there will be a ballot for over subscribed matches. For Germany 2024 I can guarantee that every match will be over subscribed!!Anyone had much experience of going to a tournament? Never been before and think I can get tickets but I do work an old 9-5. Have no idea how it would work with time off and cost.
Once the draw is made there is usually a second sales phase again by ballot, but this time obviously some matches will be a lot more popular than others once everyone knows who's actually playing.
My personal experience of applying for the first sales phase is that if you apply for maybe 20 or so matches you may get lucky for 2 or 3!
For each match approx. 15% of the tickets get allocated to each of the competing teams, so for example in a stadium that holds 50,000 the FA would receive about 7,500 tickets to sell to England fans. In order to apply for England tickets this way you would need to be a member of the England Supporters Travel Club, and even then unless you've been to lots of England matches previously you may need to go into a ballot.
Hope this helps.