http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/art...et-applicants/
UEFA will from today begin contacting all Irish applicants that applied for tickets to UEFA Euro 2012 matches, featuring the Republic of Ireland, as to the status of their application.
This first contact will be based only on the original 6,000 seats allocated for Irish fans in each Group C match. Successful applicants will be advised by UEFA of dates for payment while unsuccessful applicants will be put on a waiting list and will be considered for a ticket allocation when the release of the additional 2,300 tickets gained for Irish supporters commences in the coming weeks.
Additional tickets Quantity additional Total tickets per match Republic of Ireland v Croatia 760 6,760 Spain v Republic of Ireland 760 6,760 Italy v Republic of Ireland 780 6,780
The initial ticket allocation of 6,000 tickets per match was almost twice oversubscribed by Irish supporters eligible to apply to UEFA. Supporters who were eligible to apply are those who travel to away matches, regular ticket purchasers and clubs and leagues and anyone from this group who is unsuccessful in the initial allocation, starting today, will be considered for the remaining additional tickets still to be allocated in the coming weeks.
Welcoming the news, John Delaney, Chief Executive of the Football Association of Ireland said;
“I am happy that we have been able to secure 2,300 additional tickets so far for Irish supporters and thank UEFA for assisting us. We will continue to work closely with UEFA to secure any additional tickets that become available, we are also awaiting final confirmation of substantial extra tickets for the Italy game as they have not taken up their full allocation. UEFA EURO 2012 is generating real excitement throughout the country and while it will not be possible for every fan to attend, we will continue to work hard to secure the maximum number of tickets possible.”
Although the Republic of Ireland sales portal on UEFA is now closed, all supporters can still apply for tickets through the UEFA European Re-sale portal which redistributes tickets based on availability of returns.
Just realised I never applied to the Uefa portal, and would have been entitled to 2 tickets. dunce.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
The approval and rejection emails have been sent this morning. Congratulations to those who won, and best of luck to the rest.
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NL Premier Division Champions 2010
NL Premier Division Champions 2011
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No luck.
I got an email from UEFA congratulating me on my successful application. Only when I went onto the portal and looked at my account details did I realise that I was only part successful - I got no group game allocation whatsoever, only conditional Q/F stage onwards - conditional on Ireland qualifying. They still take 290 euros for the privilege.
Is there another round or is that it?
Would have been better us going to Ukraine. Stadiums are bigger, tickets are in less demand. Almost all successful applications got knockout round tickets, and it's likely that they would all be in Ukraine. Instead fans have to scrap it out for spares of Polish-based tickets, while those successful mainly paid through the nose.Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
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NL Premier Division Champions 2010
NL Premier Division Champions 2011
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True. As always I'm sure tickets will start to free up in due course.
Very little accommodation on ukr however and a poorer transport network and much further between host cities.
Have heard a few other cases similar to you stutts. Think that's v unfair IMO, at least there should've been a box to tick to allow u to opt out of knockout tickets if u didn't get an allocation of group tickets.
I think most fans would take guaranteed game tickets, over the "poorer transport network".
It's Ukraine, not Uganda. There is transport, there are buses, trains, trams, and metros available. There are hotels, hostels, and apartments around. Kiev's stadium can accommodate way more people than where we're playing. Sure except for Sweden and Holland, fans will have to travel around, but most are very experienced travellers who know that not everywhere is like Germany, and can accept it.
Accommodation is just as expensive in Poland. So expensive that fans are staying a couple of hundred kilometres away from the venues, and in tents. There is accommodation around, just depends on how much you're willing to pay. Unlike with the tickets, you do have choice with that.
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NL 1st Division Champions 2006
NL Premier Division Champions 2010
NL Premier Division Champions 2011
Keep Tallaght Tidy, Throw your rubbish in the Jodi
Ten Years Not Out
Well that typifies the poor organisation that has frustrated many of us over the last few months. Talk about elation and despair, you must have been mad when you logged into the portal.
At least when I logged into my email account I was put out of my misery when I saw the title of the 'not successful' email from UEFA.
UEFA were less than transparent in a number of ways when the fan portal was opened in December. It wasn't clear whether applications could be partially successful. If you applied for 3 group games, for example, and Spain and Italy tickets were grossly oversubscribed and Croatia wasn't, would they 'split' your application resulting in a better chance of getting Croatia tickets? Did anyone hear of applications which were successful for some group games but not others?
After the debacle of the ticket re-sale portal applications which gave a myriad of error messages and confused communications regarding whether your application had been successful even after you entered CC details, we ought not to be surprised by this.
Still, 6,000 tickets were allocated so there must be lots of happy punters out there.
I suppose UEFA will send out a press release shortly celebrating the huge success of their ticketing system.
I've been allocated tickets for Croatia and Italy only after applying for all games, so I'll have go over to the other thread after all to look for scraps. A bit disappointed although better than a lot I know.
Anyone booked into the Lech Hotel in Poznan?
Looks like we are going to out number England fans by 10 to 1. Amateurs!
God how sweet would it be if we got that 2nd spot and the quarter final with England.
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/3284/...sive-euro-2012
really cant see England finishing ahead of France and Sweden. I predict their only point will be a draw with Ukraine. Honestly!
It's the first time I've seen England so written off by the English, I think that could make them more dangerous. The Ukraine* should be tough to beat over there, I think they have a great shout of qualifying out of the group. It's hard to know where they're at exactly though when they haven't played competitively for a couple of years.
*Why do people tend to say 'The Ukraine' quite often as opposed to just Ukraine?
Last edited by DeLorean; 29/03/2012 at 12:33 PM.
Ukrainians hate that. It stems from Russian Imperialist times when it was referred like that by the Russians to show that they were merely a region of the Bear.
Still to this day the rest of the world refer to them like that as a consequence of that Russian practice.
I find myself doing it and try to correct myself.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Sadly, expect the 'Ingles' to get through. But then quite possibly crash and burn. Hopefully.
Though unlikely to be against us.
Interesting, I'll try to avoid it myself so! thanks.
Slowly but surely more and more tickets are beginning to surface on the UEFA portal. There were all three categories for the Ireland Croatia game earlier and Cat 1 & 2 for Italian game. I've a feeling a lot of us jumped the gun buying the expensive Cat 1's straight out, not worth taking the chance though. I see as well that tickets for Poland's games have started to become available, even Cat 2's for their Czech match. That's surely a good sign.
We're in Wroclaw on the 8th so I wouldn't mind getting a couple of Cat 2/3's for the Russia v Czech game.
The flippin portal crashed as I was buying my Croatia tickets. There were only Cat 1 available afterwards. I went to buy them anyway but kept getting a "you can only buy 1 category of ticket" error message, even though I was only looking to buy one category! Very frustrating.
Very annoying. A few times I've tried to make the final purchase and it just times out. You pretty much know if it's going to go through or not straight away. The worst thing is when it hasn't gone through I can't even get back in even though there may still be tickets available. Instead I get an error message saying something like "You cannot buy any more tickets while your last purchase is being processed. Please check back in 5 minutes".
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