Almost every Euro 2004 ticket has been sold with around 97 percent of the 1.2 million snapped up, according to Gilberto Madail, the chairman of the organising committee.

　　On the eve of Saturday's opening match between hosts Portugal and Greece, Madail said just 100 of the 50,000 tickets for the game in Porto were still unsold.

　　This was largely because of a technical complication and they would all be sold by kick-off.

　　In all 25 of the 31 matches are sold out and there are just 35,000 unsold tickets across the tournament which ends on July 4.

　　Officials say more than 75,000 tickets were mailed to fans in 100 countries in the last two weeks.