It took around 30 minutes, last night, for joy to recede and horror to boil over. Liverpool would be played a European final in a 33,000-seat stadium and the allocation was reportedly stingy.
The common, unhappy consensus was that Liverpool, as a club, would get 9,000 tickets to distribute amongst their loyal fan-base.
Following Liverpool’s 3-0 semi-final win over Villarreal – and 3-1 aggregate victory – Jurgen Klopp boasted that his team’s supporters would travel en-masse to Basel, in Switzerland, for the decider. He commented:
“We will take 50,000, 60,000 – maybe not in the stadium – 100,000. It is a nice city.”
Capacity at Basel’s St Jakob’s Park, however, is 36,000. That will mean a lot of disappointed fans.
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Liverpool will, in fact get an allocation of 10,236 for the final, against Sevilla, but once commercial partners, priority season ticker holders and club players and officials get their cut, that number is much lower.
According to The Telegraph, 4,811 tickets will be available for those deemed to be ‘general supporters’.
While many tickets will be obtainable outside official channels, the demand for them will put prices at a severe premium.
