Barça President Joan Laporta criticizes the allocation of tickets at the Camp Nou to fans of Eintracht Frankfurt

You have “a lot of information about what happened and we need time to go through it. Then we will take action, we will explain it and it will never happen again because it is a scandal,” said the President Ask why so many Barcelona supporters didn’t use their annual tickets.

Because only then could the Frankfurters occupy the free places. Around 25,000 Eintracht fans were probably in the stadium in the end, reported Frankfurt’s sports director Markus Krösche on “RTL”.

A total of almost 85,000 spectators were at the Camp Nou. Actually, only 5000 tickets would have been available to the guests.

Barcelona announced that from now on they will “be stricter and check what was allowed to avoid this in the future”. Laporta said: “We experienced an undesirable situation. As a Barça supporter, I am ashamed and really sorry for what I saw.”

FC Barcelona wants to introduce personalized tickets

According to Laporta, the club is not to blame. In an interview with “TV3”, the Barcelona president explained that the club is already planning to only issue personalized tickets in the future. “We have no other choice,” he said. “We don’t want something like this to happen again in this stadium.”

According to the Catalans, 37,746 tickets were sold to season ticket holders and 34,440 tickets went on sale to the public. Only 5000 tickets went to Frankfurt. 2425 tickets had been allocated elsewhere (UEFA, teams, sponsors, etc.).

According to Laporta, it was ensured that the 34,440 tickets on sale could not be ordered with a German credit card number or IP address. However, 24 hours before the official sale, seats from this ticket contingent were offered to the company’s own members at half price.

Meanwhile, Vice President Elena Fort calculated that the club had earned around three million euros through the full capacity of 79,468 spectators. For reaching the semi-finals, Barcelona would have received a bonus of “only” 2.8 million euros from UEFA.

Xavi on Camp Nou situation: ‘It was disappointing’

“We want to know what happened. If we play at home, it can’t happen,” said Xavi. The former professional likened the situation to a final where half the stadium is for one team and the other half for the other team. “That was disappointing,” he explained.

Frankfurt board member Axel Hellmann, on the other hand, defended those responsible at Barcelona. “FC Barcelona is not to blame for that,” he said: “Our fans are the most creative when it comes to getting tickets in any way. It was like that and will always be like that.”

(with SID)