Some 80 Football Clubs to Donate $1.1 Per Ticket Sold to Help Refugees

© AP Photo / Darko BandicA group of refugees walk on the railway tracks after crossing from Serbia, into Roszke, Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015.
A group of refugees walk on the railway tracks after crossing from Serbia, into Roszke, Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. - Sputnik International
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European Club Association Chairman said that Champions League and Europa League football clubs will donate one euro per every ticket to their first home games sold to help refugees.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Champions League and Europa League football clubs will donate one euro ($1.1) per every ticket to their first home games sold to help refugees amid a global migrant crisis, European Club Association Chairman said.

"We did agree that all Champions League participants and all Europa League participants, that means a total of 80 clubs, will donate one euro for each sold ticket for the first European home match," Karl-Heinz Rummenigge told a press conference on Tuesday.

Refugees and migrants sleep on the railway tracks close to the borders of Greece with Macedonia, near the village of Idomeni, September 6, 2015 - Sputnik International
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According to Rummenigge, as much as three million euro could be raised.

Last week, Portuguese football club Porto sent a letter to UEFA proposing the donation.

The European Union is grappling an unprecedented migrant crisis, with thousands of undocumented migrants, mainly from the Middle East and North Africa, arriving in the EU member states, fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries.

According to the EU border agency Frontex, a record number of over 340,000 refugees and migrants arrived at the EU borders between January and July 2015.

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