FANS were left furious as the Euro 2024 ticket portal crashed just as more went on sale.
Would-be buyers gathered in their droves as 100,000 extra tickets for this summer’s tournament dropped online this morning.
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Before making their purchases, fans were made to wait in an online queue.
Infuriatingly for many, they were unable to buy tickets, as they were greeted with an “error” message.
On screen, the ticketing portal said: “Technical error, please wait a moment.”
This left fans seething, with many taking to social media to vent their frustrations.
One wrote: “I see the EURO 2024 ticket portal is again a total farce.”
To which a second wearily responded: “Always has been.”
A third fumed: “Whoever designed this uefa ticket portal, needs to be studied.”
And another added: “Shambles trying to get on to the ticket portal.”
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While many fans were greeted with the technical error message, some others were thwarted by a faulty “Captcha” system.
The Captcha security system is an automated test that determines whether a human or a robot is attempting to get into a site.
One fan seethed: “Been blocked by UEFA ticket portal twice now all because I press ‘Desktop site ‘ as I can’t see the CAPTCHA pic.”
A second raged: “This #euro2024 ticket portal is a disgrace. First it’s technical errors and then it’s asking for captcha codes which aren’t displaying on either laptop or phone and sounds like I’m not the only one!”
And another added: “Can always rely on the uefa ticket portal to stress me out because it NEVER works.”
Plenty of fans of England and Scotland were attempting to grab tickets to their team’s games.
The Three Lions open their campaign against Serbia in Gelsenkirchen on June 16, before facing Denmark in Frankfurt on June 20 and Slovenia in Cologne on June 25.
Scotland, meanwhile, will take on hosts Germany in the tournament’s opening game in Munich on June 14.
Steve Clarke’s men will then face Switzerland in Frankfurt on June 19, before the Tartan Army descend upon Stuttgart for their match against Hungary on June 23.
