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Manchester United have raised ticket prices for Sevilla fans in the Champions League

By Simon StoneBBC Sport

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Manchester United fans at Old Trafford
Manchester United will subsidise the trip to Sevilla by charging the Spanish club's fans more at Old Trafford

Manchester United will charge Sevilla fans £89 to attend the Champions League last-16 tie at Old Trafford on 13 March in response to the Spanish club's "unfair and excessive" ticket pricing.

United say they will use the proceeds to subsidise fans attending the first leg in Spain on 21 February.

The La Liga side are asking for £35 more than they took from Liverpool fans in the group stages in November.

Sevilla are not breaching Uefa rules and are charging their own fans more.

United said they had taken the decision as "a deterrent to future opponents who look to increase ticket prices for our travelling supporters".

United fans will be refunded £35 before their trip to the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium, with any additional money donated to the Manchester United Foundation.

In response to complaints from ticket holders, United outlined their stance in a letter, which was issued on Wednesday.

It read: "In this instance we believe that our travelling supporters are unfairly being subjected to increased/excessive ticket prices from the host club.

"Ultimately Sevilla have not agreed to significantly lower the price to what we view as a reasonable level.

"Therefore, we have taken the difficult decision to charge Sevilla fans the same amount as our fans have been charged for the away fixture."

In response, Sevilla said they will subsidise their fans for the price increase and will "be in contact with Uefa" over the matter.

"Sevilla will also look to guarantee that no Sevillista pays a penny more than any Manchester United fan for similar tickets - as competition regulations dictate," the Spanish club said.external-link

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  • Comment posted by Peterpad, at 14:15 10 Jan 2018

    Man City fan here, pains me to say it but well done MUFC, stannding up for your fans.

  • Comment posted by Sean Dyches Cough Sweet, at 14:35 10 Jan 2018

    Right, clearly some rather angry Anti-United Bin-Crawlers on here, so I'll dumb it down for you -

    * Sevilla are charging £89 for united fans, so united are charging the Sevilla fans the same. BUT United will use their ticket money to reduce the price of their fans away tickets later on, and donate the remainder to charity.

    United haven't done a thing wrong, good on them.

  • Comment posted by Deathmam, at 14:31 10 Jan 2018

    Liverpool fan here. I fully back what United are doing here

  • Comment posted by D1710601043106, at 14:25 10 Jan 2018

    @4 Xhakaboom

    "Abhorrent behaviour, wouldn't expect anything else from dirty united"

    What?

    Have you actually read the article?

    Sevilla put the price up for United fans and in turn United have put up the price for Sevilla by the same amount.

    All traveling United fans will be reimbursed £35 and if there's any excess then it'll go to charity.

    So how is this "abhorrent behaviour"?

  • Comment posted by User0487850496, at 14:16 10 Jan 2018

    Serves Sevilla right for thinking they can take the mickey.

    A rare case of a club taking a stand for their fans.... now if only they'd do the same for their own tickets!!!

  • Comment posted by yeah_but_no_but, at 14:17 10 Jan 2018

    Fair play to Man United on this one - Sevilla will still sell out their allocation at that price and if it acts as a deterrent then it's a good decision.

  • Comment posted by Tahen, at 14:20 10 Jan 2018

    Surely UEFA should be intervening to ensure fairness in pricing strategy. As a fan who has to fork out costs of travel and accommodation its quite ridiculous. Fair play to United for helping their fans...

  • Comment posted by mattjenkins16, at 14:24 10 Jan 2018

    @8 but they’re taking it from the fans, not the club. Including their own fans! Sevilla in the wrong here

  • Comment posted by User0639987599, at 14:18 10 Jan 2018

    Seems fair enough.

  • Comment posted by TheHarold, at 14:19 10 Jan 2018

    Forgetting the Man United aspect of this; it would be good if the BBC gave some balance to this: what do Sevilla normally charge at this stage of the tournament? What did they charge in the Europa League at the latter stages? What are they charging other European teams??
    Without this balance, it just seems like a greedy club. I expected much much better from the Beeb.

  • Comment posted by jjh87, at 14:44 10 Jan 2018

    Bottom line is: ticket prices are too high because clubs get loads of money.

    Look Bayern Munich, a cheaper season ticket than QPR

  • Comment posted by Marc, at 18:21 10 Jan 2018

    so Sevilla increase their ticket price, and in response, United raise theirs, but offer to subsidise fans going to Sevilla, and in response Sevilla will do the same for their fans travelling to United. So basically they might as well just both put their prices back to normal and stop being idiots.

  • Comment posted by Glad All Over - CPFC, at 15:45 10 Jan 2018

    Good gesture from United, but let’s not forget that they charged Derby County fans £45 at the weekend as they said the maximum £30 for away fans didn’t apply to cup games.

    Stones, glass houses, etc.

  • Comment posted by modharry, at 14:49 10 Jan 2018

    @30 No discrimination Seville are quite able to subsidize their away fans travel just like United, but they will not because that would impinge on their naked profiteering which this is.
    As United have a bigger capacity & excess goes to charity so all good. Not a United fan but glad to see a club at last taking a stand on overcharging.

  • Comment posted by User0014613718, at 14:24 10 Jan 2018

    Some lovely ABU comments as per. They try and help out their fans, people complaining that Sevilla fans are getting charged for it but if it weren't for Sevillas greed in charging both sets of fans over the odds in the 1st place then this could have been easily avoided. So essentially Sevilla have screwed their own fans here,

  • Comment posted by alibor, at 14:26 10 Jan 2018

    Only ultra bigoted anti United fans would criticise them for such action as their own Clubs would do same. The cost of attending 90 minutes of any football match is just ridiculous as are transfer fees and earnings of professional soccer players and the cost of their paraphernalia is crazy.

  • Comment posted by Rick, at 14:24 10 Jan 2018

    4. Posted by Xhakaboom - Did you read the article?

  • Comment posted by dhl, at 14:42 10 Jan 2018

    Well done. If Sevilla fans don't like they can complain to their own club . good on United taking this stance and refunding the £35 back to their own fans.

  • Comment posted by Van der Kevo, at 15:35 10 Jan 2018

    Reading some of these comments, I don't know if there are just loads of wind up merchants or just some really stupid, uneducated morons posting today

  • Comment posted by Nixon Mclane, at 15:15 10 Jan 2018

    79. Posted by Captain Clayhead

    There are a large number of people who jumped on the Man Utd bandwagon in the nineties and 2000s.

    ++

    As does any successful club. How many real Real Madrid fans are from Madrid. In fact, how many Liverpool fans are actually from Liverpool after their success in the 70's & 80's? It's not all about United... they're just your bitter example.

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