Liverpool will receive 12,000 tickets for their fans if they triumph in the Europa League final in Dublin.
This may just be Jurgen Klopp’s last game and it promises to be a huge flood of fitness tickets, with even basic hotel rooms already charging upwards of £500 a night.
West Ham will face similar upheaval if they qualify for the final at the 48,000-capacity Dublin Arena on May 22, of which 36,000 will go directly to fans, the club will receive 12,000 and an additional 12,000 will be sold to the general public.
Aston Villa would get just 9,000 if they reached the Europa Conference League final at AEK Athens in Greece on May 29.
UEFA has revealed its pricing and ticket policy, pledging to offer affordable seats in the ‘Fans First’ segment at a fee of £60 per user for the Champions League at Wembley on Saturday 1 June. The maximum range is from £160 to £610, while handicapped tickets charge £60 and come with a loose ticket for someone else.
Wembley has a capacity of 86,600 seats, of which 60,000 will be for fans (each club will get 25,000), and the remaining 10,000 will go to general sale to fans around the world. Those 26,000 tickets, or nearly a third of the stadium, will be celebrated through UEFA, with corporate and VIP tickets still generating a huge money supply of millions.
Fan organisation Football Supporters Europe welcomed the fact that the allocation of 58 cents to Champions League finalists at Wembley this summer is the highest in a decade, but called for a reconsideration of the continent’s second-tier festival final on May 22.
“Football Supporters Europe (FSE) today seriously fears that the finalists’ allocations for the 2024 Europa League final in Dublin will only reach 50% of the stadium’s total capacity that day,” a member of the organisation said. In addition, the ESF calls on UEFA and local organisers to do the right thing for fans and increase those allocations.
“A measly 50 per cent capacity for Europa League finalist clubs is not enough and falls far short of the ESF’s request to supply at least 66 per cent of tickets for all European finals to the fans of the teams involved. You will need to have transparent precedence over public sale options.
“Based on past experiences, a higher allocation of ticket prices for general sale will especially boost black market activity for priced tickets, exploiting fan loyalty. “
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