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UEFA says more than two million tickets have been requested for the 2012 European Championship, and 28 of 31 matches are oversubscribed.

Fans in host nations Poland and Ukraine have made 90 percent of the applications for tickets which are priced from €30 ($42).

Fans in Germany have made more than 65,000 requests and Russian residents around 40,000.

UEFA says people from 178 countries have registered to buy tickets on its website before the March 31 deadline. Ballots will decide who gets them.

Ticket plans to follow teams through the June 8-July 1 tournament are oversubscribed for Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain and Ukraine.

A total of 1.4 million tickets are available for matches in eight cities.