Barcelona president Joan Laporta has announced to change the ticket policy at Camp Nou after Eintracht Frankfurt fans flooded the stadium on Thursday.
As quoted by ESPN, Barcelona president Joan Laporta has shed light on the ticketing shambles that went down at Camp Nou for their UEFA Europa League quarter-final second leg tie against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Only 5,000 tickets were allotted to the away team for the game. But, Camp Nou was swarming with Frankfurt supporters on Thursday night, with over 30,000 of them watching the game at the stadium and creating an atmosphere that overshadowed the home team’s support. Barça ended up losing the game 2-3, crashing out of the Europa League as a result.
Manager Xavi Hernandez expressed his surprise and displeasure about what went down and demanded answers about how it was allowed to happen. And president Laporta has now provided an explanation on the matter.
“We insist that the 34,440 tickets that went on sale were restricted to sale outside Germany. The club did not sell tickets to German fans. Those who bought those tickets passed them on to German fans, that is obvious.”
✅?| Official: Laporta has announced that from now on the tickets for the matches of the European competitions will be nominative.
If your name does not appear on the ticket and you are not with the owner of the ticket, you will not have entry to the stadium.#fcblive pic.twitter.com/w1dGmSwa8C
— BarçaTimes (@BarcaTimes) April 15, 2022
Laporta went on to add that the club was in no way responsible for the occurrence. However, he did insist that there will be changes to the ticketing policies to avoid a repeat of Thursday’s situation in the future.
“We feel really bad, it was shameful,” Laporta said. “I am appalled by the image presented and feel ashamed as this should never have happened.
“The club is not guilty regarding events leading to the tickets ending up in the hands of German fans. However, we do accept the responsibility that falls on us. We do not want this to happen again at Barca, and we will take action: the measures that I can announce for now — and that will be adopted for all international competitions — is that tickets will become non-transferable.”
“It is something we never wanted to do because it is inconvenient for fans who follow the rules. But we have no option to ensure that what happened against Frankfurt does not happen again.”
Having crashed out of Europe, Barcelona will now focus their efforts on ending the La Liga campaign on a strong note and sealing a spot in the top four of the standings.
Barcelona president Joan Laporta has announced to change the ticket policy at Camp Nou after Eintracht Frankfurt fans flooded the stadium on Thursday.
As quoted by ESPN, Barcelona president Joan Laporta has shed light on the ticketing shambles that went down at Camp Nou for their UEFA Europa League quarter-final second leg tie against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Only 5,000 tickets were allotted to the away team for the game. But, Camp Nou was swarming with Frankfurt supporters on Thursday night, with over 30,000 of them watching the game at the stadium and creating an atmosphere that overshadowed the home team’s support. Barça ended up losing the game 2-3, crashing out of the Europa League as a result.
Manager Xavi Hernandez expressed his surprise and displeasure about what went down and demanded answers about how it was allowed to happen. And president Laporta has now provided an explanation on the matter.
“We insist that the 34,440 tickets that went on sale were restricted to sale outside Germany. The club did not sell tickets to German fans. Those who bought those tickets passed them on to German fans, that is obvious.”
✅?| Official: Laporta has announced that from now on the tickets for the matches of the European competitions will be nominative.
If your name does not appear on the ticket and you are not with the owner of the ticket, you will not have entry to the stadium.#fcblive pic.twitter.com/w1dGmSwa8C
— BarçaTimes (@BarcaTimes) April 15, 2022
Laporta went on to add that the club was in no way responsible for the occurrence. However, he did insist that there will be changes to the ticketing policies to avoid a repeat of Thursday’s situation in the future.
“We feel really bad, it was shameful,” Laporta said. “I am appalled by the image presented and feel ashamed as this should never have happened.
“The club is not guilty regarding events leading to the tickets ending up in the hands of German fans. However, we do accept the responsibility that falls on us. We do not want this to happen again at Barca, and we will take action: the measures that I can announce for now — and that will be adopted for all international competitions — is that tickets will become non-transferable.”
“It is something we never wanted to do because it is inconvenient for fans who follow the rules. But we have no option to ensure that what happened against Frankfurt does not happen again.”
Having crashed out of Europe, Barcelona will now focus their efforts on ending the La Liga campaign on a strong note and sealing a spot in the top four of the standings.