UEFA receive19.3m Euro 2020 ticket requests
UEFA has received 19.3m ticket requests during the first sales window for the 2020 European Championship, Sky Sport reported, adding the figure far exceeds the 11m record set during the same phase ahead of the 2016 tournament.
It is noted that around 1.5m tickets went on sale from June 12 to July 12 to the general public as part of UEFA's "fan-first" ticketing policy for the tournament.
UEFA said 1.9m tickets were requested for the final, to be held at Wembley Stadium on July 12 2020, adding the highest demand among locals was in group stage and quarter-final host city St Petersburg, where approximately 81 per cent of applications came from within Russia.