Barcelona are set to alter ticket coverage for European video games based on the membership’s president Joan Laporta.
This comes after Eintracht Frankfurt followers gained entry to Camp Nou on Thursday through the Europa League encounter. The Catalans have been knocked out of the event following a 3-2 loss, 4-3 on mixture.
Solely 5000 tickets have been allotted to Frankfurt followers by the Catalans however 1000’s extra secured seats within the return leg of the Europa League final eight.
“We really feel actually dangerous, it was shameful,” Laporta instructed Barca’s web site on Friday.
“I’m appalled by the picture introduced and really feel ashamed as this could by no means have occurred.
“The membership is just not responsible concerning occasions resulting in the tickets ending up within the arms of German followers. Nonetheless, we do settle for the duty that falls on us.
“We are not looking for this to occur once more at Barca and we are going to take motion: the measures that I can announce for now — and that shall be adopted for all worldwide competitions — is that tickets will change into non-transferable.
“It’s one thing we by no means wished to do as a result of it’s inconvenient for followers who comply with the foundations. However we now have no choice to make sure that what occurred towards Frankfurt doesn’t occur once more.”
Capability
The attendance at Camp Nou on Thursday was just below 80,000. Of these current, round 38,000 have been season ticket holders, 5,000 have been within the Frankfurt part and one other 34,440 had purchased tickets for the match by different means.
