Get all your news in one place.
100’s of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Sport
Connor O'Neill

Liverpool supporters could benefit from two new Champions League initiatives from UEFA

Liverpool fans could be set to benefit from two new initiatives brought in by UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin.

The Slovenian lawyer wants to introduce a way of subsidising fans travel to European finals and says he will investigate whether the allocation of 17,000 tickets per team for last night's final can be increased for next year's showdown in Istanbul.

Liverpool fans were left outraged on both accounts ahead this season's final with Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid, with many die-hard fans left empty handed following the club's ticket ballot ahead of the game.

While plenty of other Reds fans were left to fork out huge sums to get to and from the Spanish capital, with airlines hiking up their prices following Liverpool's dramatic comeback win over Barcelona in the semi-finals.

Liverpool fans at the Estadio Wanda Metropolitano ((Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images))

Fans have being calling on the governing body to act, and now it appears the organisation are prepared to make changes.

"The number of tickets [for fans] I will discuss right after the finals," Ceferin told MailOnline

"It would be populistic now to say we will change everything. Maybe an idea would be that together with clubs, especially the big ones, we create a fund. We give some money and whoever qualified has money for their fans to travel.

"What bothers me is that some clubs are just complaining without any productive ideas. Lets' change this. Let's do this. If a sponsor pays £100m a year [to UEFA], they want to have something [tickets] for that. And this £100m goes back to the clubs.

"The same clubs that come to the finals because of that money. So it's a vicious circle."

Liverpool fans party on the streets of Madrid

Before the 51-year-old added: "Exactly what I'm thinking about now. Or that the sponsor or an airline company partly pays or take care of the finals. These are all ideas.

"We learn from mistakes and experience. Trust me, it's not easy to organise these events."

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100’s of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.