If you thought buying tickets for top club football, such as for the Premier League or perhaps the Champions League, was tough going, then the prospect of trying to buy tickets for a top international tournament will send you into a cold sweat.
The interest in attending either the FIFA World Cup or the finals of the UEFA European Championship is huge and goes far beyond the level of interest that exists in the club scene.
That interest also continues to grow and leads to millions of fans visiting the relevant ticketing portal run by either FIFA or UEFA, and they do so simply with a view to entering a random ballot and are then trusting to luck.
Ultimately the vast majority of those who apply will be left disappointed, and even those who win are also likely to be unhappy, and here’s why. The first tranche of tickets offered by both FIFA and UEFA are released before the draw for a tournament is made, so the fan applying only knows the date and location of the match they are applying for but not, crucially, the identities of the two teams playing.
So that means that a great many fans who actually win the right to buy tickets are not going to see their favourite national team, and it’s a system that is frankly absurd.
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Switzerland vs Slovakia UEFA Euros Tournament Record
Switzerland struggled to get to the finals of the UEFA European Championships and only managed to do so for the first time in 1996 when they played the hosts, England, in their first group-stage game and actually came away with a credible draw.
However, Artur Jorge’s side then lost to both the Netherlands and Scotland and therefore finished bottom of the pile.
At Euro 2004, the story was much the same. An opening draw with Croatia was followed by defeats by both England and France.
Euro 2008, which Switzerland co-hosted with Austria, saw them lose to the Czech Republic and Turkey before completing their group phase with a win over Portugal but were still rooted to the foot of the table.
At Euro 2016, the Swiss finally went one step further. A goal from Newcastle United defender Fabian Schar gave them a 1-0 win over Albania, and they then drew with both Romania and France to finish on a healthy total of five points.
That led them to the Round of 16, where Poland knocked them out on penalties.
Euro 2020 saw Switzerland progress even further. In the Round of 16, they were up against Euro 2016 winners France and fought their way back from 3-1 down to force the game to extra time and penalties, and the Rossocrociati edged through to reach the Quarter-Finals, where Spain dealt them a blow, winning via spot-kicks to bring their brave run to an end.
Slovakia have only previously qualified for two UEFA European Championship finals, the first of which coming at Euro 2016. In France they did fairly well to recover from an opening game loss to Wales to then defeat Russia and draw with England to make it to the knockout phase.
There they were humbled by Germany, losing 3-0 in Lille.
Five years later, at the delayed Euro 2020 finals, they failed to get out of their group.
Switzerland vs Slovakia Head-to-Head
These two nations have never previously met in a competitive encounter, with their last friendly encounter coming in 2015, with Slovakia edging out the Swiss in a five-goal thriller in Trnava
