The Union of European football associations (UEFA) has announced the successful completion of testing mobile applications for ticket sales based on the blockchain.

According to a press release from UEFA, the app is designed to make the process of selling tickets to football matches “easier and more safe,” eliminating the possibility of counterfeiting and duplication of tickets. Testing of the service was carried out during sale of tickets for the Champions League match between real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, which will take place on September 29 in Tallinn. All tickets were distributed via the blockchain app, available for download on the Play Market and App Store. This test was conducted to adjust and improve services and was not the first: in one of the previous tests on the platform has sold 50% of tickets for the match “Atletico”—”Marseille” in Lyon, France.

In order to get to the stadium, fans will only need to show the ticket in the mobile app: devices at the entrances consider the information from the smartphone screen. Detailed instructions for using the application published on the YouTube channel of UEFA.

UEFA has said it will continue to develop the system and will use her for the sale of tickets for other football events.

In may, The Guardian wrote about another platform based on the blockchain for the sale of tickets, which was developed by two graduates of the Imperial College London Annika Monari (Annika Monari) and Alan Wei (Alan Vey). Your app creators named Aventus Protocol. The system allows you to bind to each ticket a unique ID number that is generated at the time of purchase. This way the developers hope to protect buyers from speculation and counterfeiting of tickets. To test the platform Monari and Wei were going during the world Championship on football in Russia, organizing the sale of 10,000 tickets in Europe and the United States.

We will note that representatives of the football industry are increasingly interested in bacchanal and cryptocurrencies. So in July, world football star, Ronaldinho spoke about the launch the ICO for cryptocurrency project Ronaldinho Soccer Coin. In this project, the blockchain will be used to open a football Academy, organization of matches and create a VR stadiums.