A total of one million tickets will go on sale from March 1 for the tournament that culminates with the final at Vienna's Ernst-Happel stadium on June 29, 2008, Kallen said in an interview with the German football federation website (www.dfb.de).

"We stand at 147 million euros at the moment," said Kallen, who was director of operations for Euro 2004 in Portugal.

"We will make 18.6 million euros available to each of the eight host cities (Basel, Berne, Geneva, Zurich, Innsbruck, Klangenfurt, Salzburg, Vienna). Each city will also receive 375,000 euros from UEFA for the cost of setting up fan zones."

Euro SA expects ticket sales to hit 138 million euros.

March will see a first batch of 290,000 tickets go on sale, while each federation will receive 20 percent of tickets for games played by its national team.

Ticket prices will be less than in last summer's World Cup, Kallen said, adding however that there was a problem with stadium capacity - an average of 33,750 per ground.

Euro SA, a 100 percent subsidiary of UEFA, European football's governing body, expects to make a minimum benefit, according to Kallen.

"We would be happy to break even."